Morning Comrades! Once again, there is a bucket load to chat about and I am going to start with Covid-19, India as a representative case for the most severe case of the fuckening, some tunes and a short-ish running commentary.
I previously wrote about the criminal decision enforced by the global North West in the WTO to not waive the vaccine patents for the rest of the world. As it stands today, the majority of the world has not received any notable amounts of any vaccine and to make matters even worse, our government-supported pharma companies are pulling some serious gangster shit in the background when selling said vaccines to any and all non-white, non NATO countries. We are talking extortion, political coups to demanding selling off natural resources to even be allowed to buy said vaccine. In comes India, one of the largest countries in the world and one that has been exploited, especially by England for the last few centuries, who is now experiencing one of the worst global 3rd waves of Covid-19. I won’t go into reasons for this in here, predominately because I know too little to make a solid argument and in essence reasons being irrelevant. Fact is, Covid-19 is killing people in India at a rate unseen, even in Brazil, and whilst we are happy to continuously exploit their human assets, our governments sure as fuck aren’t willing to step in, waive the patent rights for any vaccine and are happy to subjugate India as they have for centuries past. Sure, Germany, has “offered” financial aid, but for what, to use that money to buy German Made vaccines?
It’s enraging to the point of being lost for words, especially, and even if you remove the humanistic approach to it all, which none of us ever should, you and me have more in common with our working kinfolk in India ( in this case, representative, for the rest of the world that isn’t getting the vaccine ) than any of the fucking celebrities, millionaires, that we covet in the West. Simply put, not waiving the patent rights to any vaccine will be the number one cause for an ever continuing Covid-19 pandemic. Sure, you and your buddy are vaccinated - I am not, because Germany is fucking this vaccination process up at a level that makes me shake with rage - but the rest of the world isn’t. This, or any virus, doesn’t give a rats ass about nationalities, borders, and whilst we’re thinking about dating and pubs, the rest of the world is dying, allowing this virus to mutate to a point where our vaccines will be irrelevant. I know most of yous vaccinated folk are dying to get on a plane to travel again, but think hard and long on that one. Take all the time you need.
Fact is, if you thought the US was hit bad, India, and soon most of the world without vaccines will make those 500`000 deaths seems like a blimp in the stock market - and I intentionally made that pun. Furthermore, whatever mutations that will incur for Big Pharma’s short term profits- none of which you will see - will be irrelevant once you bring back the mutations from your instagramable vacation.
Long story short, it is now a massive priority to use all the power we have to force our governments across the Global North West to waive these patents. Today. Tomorrow. Get on it. We owe it, at the very least.
Quick break from our work to let you know about this weeks playlist, only because I think it is possibly the finest one that I have put together so far. For everyone that is new-ish to these, these are NOT curated, far from it, they essentially and only showcase what I listened to the week just gone and I guess I had a good one. Without wanting to name drop or spoil the surprise, this one kills. It’s a 3 hour long dance session from almost every genre that makes my heart swell, from political post-punk, neo-new wave and punk, to rap, to incredibly wonderful metal, Touareg-Saharan Jams and so much more. This is what it would be like if we all got together on some hidden spot in in the southwestern mountains of Mexico, hung out, got way onto the buss and jammed the fuck out. Listen to this one, share this one, fuck to this one, it’s honestly not going to get much better than this.
I’ll try and fit in as much of the fuckening that I can after the above, there is heaps, and again, i might have to add extras over on my much loved IG account. Saying that, this first one is important, truly important to me. Protests, People Power are NEVER about you, Social Media and so on. Genuinely distrust and evict anyone that makes movements about themselves. This, here, everywhere, is about building a better tomorrow for EVERYONE and any compromise for exposure needs to be squashed immediately. You are not fighting for clout, but for the world, and you DO NOT MATTER only for the body you are putting on the street. Always remember, the point of organizing is NOT building a drop out commune that will be immediately be co-opted by capitalism, but to TAKE power and change the world. Nothing more, nothing less.