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DESCRIPTION:Sun, Apr 19, 2020: 10:30 am to 12:30 pm\nCOVID 19: A Global Pandemic.\nICSS 
 Members Raj Sahai and Mehmet Bayyan will discuss the global pandemic using 
 India and Turkey as case studies. \nFOR LOG-IN INFO SEND AN EMAIL TO 
 CUYLERUYLE@MAC.COM WITH YOUR NAME AND TELPHONE #\n   Corona virus came at a 
 time when the capitalist crisis on hand had already started its 
 devastation.   The medical crisis immediately became a very convenient 
 cover to hide the real cause, the real destruction, brought on by the 
 capitalist devastation.  However, the destruction is and will have the 
 worst effect in the neo-colonial countries such as Turkey.  The pandemic 
 has exposed the illegitimacy of the capitalist, dependent and corrupt 
 system as it is unable to cope with the demands of the vast number of 
 people, let alone a medical disaster.   Mehmet Bayram will discuss how 
 Turkey is dealing with the disease, but mostly the political measures that 
 kicked in together with the fight against the pandemic.\n   Mehmet Bayram 
 is a journalist reporting on labor and community issues.\nHe contributes to 
 the English language news from Turkey at 
 https://sendika63.org/kategori/english/   and also writes and translates 
 for the same site.  Sendia.org has been closed by the Turkish government 62 
 times and is now publishing at its 63rd site defying the “access ban” 
 imposed by the Turkish government.\n   India has been fortunate in the 
 current Covid-19 pandemic so far in that it has been limited in scope, but 
 now that it has attained stage two, and threatening to enter the third 
 stage, i.e., community spread, the specter of suffering and deaths in the 
 population looms much larger in India than it has been in other countries, 
 which collectively has already seen over 130,000 deaths as of today (April 
 15,2020). The British colonialism impoverished India and left it in 
 shambles upon being ousted in 1947, but the nationalist movement supported 
 by the USSR helped bring about public health programs and some improvement 
 in the lives of a substantial minority even as the poor remained poor. But 
 the class nature of society that emerged in the period of Neoliberal 
 "reform" launched in 1989 and the Fascist ideology of the present ruling 
 party, the BJP, adds to the threat that this fast moving pandemic poses. In 
 his proposed presentation titled 'Novel Corona Virus in India'  Raj Sahai 
 will attempt to outline the issues facing the working class population, 
 which lives on a very meager material base even in the best of times. \n   
 Raj Sahai immigrated to the US from India in 1966. He visits India 
 frequently,where he works with worker activists in struggle. He  has been 
 associated with the Institute for Critical Study of Society at the 
 Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library for the past 15 years. He can be reached at 
 rsahai1987@gmail.com\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/18/18832469.php
SUMMARY:Covid 19: A Global Pandemic.
LOCATION:NPML, 6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA. 94609
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/18/18832469.php
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