A COVID Memorial Mixtape Revisited

In this throwback episode, we revisit a moment of indignation and remembrance.

Episode 16 of the Movement Memos podcast, hosted by Truthout, titled "A COVID Memorial Mixtape Revisited" was published on November 4, 2021 and runs 21 minutes.

November 4, 2021 ·21m · Movement Memos

Summary

In place of our usual content, this week, we are revisiting A COVID Memorial Mixtape. The mixtape, which was released in October of 2020 by Ric Wilson, in collaboration with a number of grassroots organizers, was created as part of a month-long effort to memorialize people lost to COVID-19. It was also played through a loudspeaker outside the Metropolitan Correctional Facility in downtown Chicago. When the tape was created, we had lost over 200,000 people to COVID-19 in the United States. Now, we have lost over 750,000. Globally, more than 5 million people have died. So we're taking a pause this week, and revisiting some reflection, reverence and resistance around those losses.  We’ll be back next week with a regular episode.   You can find a transcript on our website.

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