Revolutionario Tacos handed out 800 tacos to residents of Skid Row, an area of LA densely populated with a lot of low-income housing and single-room occupancy units as well as a large population of homeless people. Susan Park, a co-founder of the business alongside Chef Zadi, also started a mutual-aid fund and has been confronted … Read more
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4agk99/2-homeless-women-took-over-an-empty-san-francisco-home-and-cops-showed-up In San Francisco, two homeless women occupied an empty house in San Francisco on May 1st, and the police detained the women quite aggressively. The demonstration builds upon other general unrest in the Bay Area as the 8,000 person homeless population sees higher stakes of remaining outside amidst COVID-19. Though San Francisco has declared … Read more
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-prisons-testing-in/in-four-u-s-state-prisons-nearly-3300-inmates-test-positive-for-coronavirus-96-without-symptoms-idUSKCN2270R In Ohio’s Marion Correctional Institution, 2028 out of 2300 inmates that were tested tested positive and 95% were asymptomatic. In general, gathering data from inmates at state prisons in Arkansas, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia, 3277 out of 4693 tests conducted came back positive, and 96% of these 3277 inmates showed zero symptoms. While … Read more
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-struggles-to-slow-COVID-19-among-15209659.php On April 18th, Governor Newsom announced plans titled Project Roomkey to use empty hotels to help some of California’s homeless population, over 150,000 people in total, access better housing and health. While his plans aim to house 15,000 and prioritizes those with prior conditions making them susceptible to severe cases of COVID-19, it’s unclear … Read more
https://www.newsweek.com/rikers-island-covid-19-new-york-city-1496872 Rikers Island now has a confirmed infection rate of 6.6% which is over seven times that of NYC and nine times that of New York State. Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have begun releasing inmates slowly; however, many call the release rate insufficient and unjust as many inmates, over 100, are particularly susceptible … Read more
World famous photographers shoot their lives in quarantine and are restricted to the confines of their own homes and neighborhoods as sets for their work in quarantine. Many are turning to Instagram as the platform to share these photos as the platform allows for people to access art digitally. Stephen Shore offers a particularly interesting … Read more
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/visual-arts/story/2020-03-27/art-in-the-time-of-covid-19 In art, an industry heavily reliant on physical gatherings and spaces, COVID-19 presents creatives with particularly interesting challenges as physical encounters constitute a significant portion of profit for artists. As larger, non-profit museums are able to receive funding from grants and the government, contributing to arts was included in the recent $2 trillion stimulus … Read more
