Our “5 R” plan to combat Covid
Created by & for those most harmed,
our policies ensure
pandemic justice & remembrance is:
EQUITABLE:
The needs of those most impacted – people who are vulnerable, bereaved and/or living with Long Covid – are centered;PROPORTIONATE:
Action is commensurate in scale to a humanitarian crisis and mass disabling event; andCOMPREHENSIVE:
Solutions adequately address the full spectrum of short- and long-term public health, financial, economic, racial, and psychological tolls of the crisis.
Here’s what we’re fighting for:
RECOGNITION: Advance healing and restorative justice by ensuring remembrance, accountability for preventable harms, and an unvarnished national narrative.
RESPONSE: Protect people who are vulnerable, mitigate financial hardship, and help people bereaved or disabled by the pandemic by prioritizing public health best practices and equity values.
RECOVERY: Rebuild equitably to ensure that people who are elderly, disabled, chronically ill, Black, Indigenous, and other people of color don't fall further behind.
RESTITUTION: Provide reparations to Covid-19 victims and/or their families for the willful negligence of public officials and compensate essential workers for their service.
RESILIENCE (Preparedness): Build infrastructure to prevent future pandemics and disasters, address health, racial, and economic inequities, and ensure universal access to high quality, no-cost health care.
Who’s on board:
In addition to being endorsed by our Activists and Community Advisory Board, organizations like Avaaz, PolicyLink, People’s Action, Center for Popular Democracy, Mighty Earth, End Well, #NotJustABlackBody Campaign, Kristina Libby & The Floral Heart Project, Liberation in Generation, R2H Action [Right to Health Action], National Domestic Workers Alliance, Aries Vision Television, Care Test Protect Campaign, COVID Grief Network, and Caring Across Generations have signed on as official organizational sponsors.