COVID-19

• Immediate Actions To Take:
• Sign the Petition To Cancel Rent + Cancel Mortgage 
• Call Your Reps to Support Working Families with Paid Parental Leave
• Call Your Reps to Raise the Federal Minimum Wage to $15
• Sign the Petition to Demand Bold, Sustained COVID-19 Relief for ALL!
• Urge your elected officials to improve your state’s COVID-19 race and ethnicity data reporting by using the resources on The COVID Tracking Project

• Organizations To Support + Follow: 
• Center for Popular Democracy
• Database of Localized Resources During COVID-19 Outbreak 
• DC Mutual Aid Network 
• District Alliance for Safe Housing 
• Mutual Aid Hub
• Working Families Party 

• Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:
• Articles —
• Address Anti-Asian Hate Crimes — Anti-Racism Daily
• Advocates fought for a relief bill that helped women. Here’s what the House voted to approve. — The 19th
• Children of color disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, data reveals. Racial disparities in COVID-19 also extend to children. — ABC News
• COVID-19 Changes How We Vote. It could also change who votes. by Mike Baker — NYTimes 
• Demands from Grassroots Organizers Concerning COVID-19 by Kelly Hayes — Transformative Spaces
• Feeling Powerless About Coronavirus? Join a Mutual Aid Network. by Charlie Warzel — NYTimes
• How To Ask If Everything is OK When It's Clearly Not by Anna Goldfarb — NYTimes 
• I Really Loved My Job: Why the Pandemic Has Hit These Workers Harder by Andy Newman — NYTimes
• Learn How Racism is a Public Health Crisis — Anti-Racism Daily
• Mental Health and COVID-19 Information and Resources — Mental Health America
• Mental Health Professionals are Preparing for an Epidemic of Anxiety Around the Coronavirus by Will Peischel — Mother Jones
• No New Normal: Who Will We Be After This Nightmare is Over? by Kim Kelly — Bitch Media 
• Support an Equitable Vaccine Rollout — Anti-Racism Daily
• Support the Navajo Nation through COVID-19 — Anti-Racism Daily
• Ten Equity Implications of the Coronavirus COVID-19 Outbreak in the United States — NAACP
• 'The Impossible Has Already Happened': What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Hope by Rebecca Solnit — The Guardian
• Think This Pandemic is Bad? We Have Another Crisis Coming by Rhiana Gunn-Wright — NYTimes 
• What It's Been Like to Vote in 2020 This Far by Evan Nicole Brown — NYTimes
• Widows run for Congress after husbands’ COVID-19 deaths. Susan Wright and Julia Letlow compete in elections to fill two House seats. — The Wall Street Journal

• Books —
• A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit 
• COVID-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One by Debora Mackenzie 
• Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit 
• Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next) by Dean Spade 
• The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropoktkin
• The Decameron by Giovanni Boccacio
• The Plague by Albert Camus

• Watch or Listen — 
• Coronavirus, Explained. — Netflix
• COVID Is Creating a Deadly Mental Health Crisis in America — VICE News
• “The Sisterhood.” Why Filipino nurses have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic. — The Experiment

NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at community@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our 2021 focus areas. We'd love to hear from you. 

This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated May 12, 2021.