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<P>Hi,</P>
<P>The COVID-19 virus pandemic is now global and I’m feeling as anxious and
worried as you all are for what this means for our loved ones and
communities.</P>
<P>The whole 350.org team sends you strength and solidarity as we do all that’s
necessary to get through this additional crisis together. We all deserve care,
dignity, and protection in dealing with COVID19 and we recognize that for the
elderly, the immune-compromised, the undocumented, the incarcerated, the
disabled, and low income communities, this coronavirus can be
life-threatening.</P>
<P>A colleague of mine on lockdown in Manila, Philippines summed up best for me
this week the truths we must hold dear together in this time, with an eye firmly
on the climate crisis we know is also upon us.</P>
<P style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px"><EM>Social solidarity is just as important as
social distancing.</EM><BR><EM>A culture of sharing is the best antidote to
hoarding.</EM><BR><EM><STRONG>Our communities are stronger than the
coronavirus.</STRONG></EM><BR><EM>- Chuck Baclagon, 350.org Asia</EM></P>
<P>That’s why 350.org’s immediate focus is on sharing the resources and
experience we have from organizing with movements in the last decade. Above all,
at this time, we want to help people find and share creative ways to organize to
support each other and build resilient communities.</P>
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href="https://act.350.org/go/191561?t=6&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=116426%2E4050260%2E7xX6zo">Community
Care Organising Kit</A></P>
<P>And we’re working with others to help ensure our governments don’t deal with
this coronavirus crisis by making other crises worse. We don’t want to see
corporate bailouts that will build inequity and climate breakdown.</P>
<P>Who could have imagined last week that things would stand as they do today?
Everything is changing rapidly around us, in different ways and countries, but
we are adapting as fast as we can.</P>
<P>At 350, we believe this is a moment to use all of our creative people power
to fight for a just, people-centered transition away from the systems behind
these crises we face. <STRONG>This is not the moment to protest in the
streets,</STRONG> nor the time to gather in-person in large groups for actions
and mobilizations.</P>
<P><STRONG>There are so many ways to keep organizing for a just world – <A
href="https://act.350.org/go/191575?t=7&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=116426%2E4050260%2E7xX6zo">find
out more and share your own ideas here</A>.</STRONG></P>
<P>We’re delving into all the creativity and humanity on display right now
around the world – and in the coming days and weeks we’ll be sharing with you
ways to stay connected with each other, keep fighting for justice, and lift up
the solutions we all desperately need in these turbulent times.</P>
<P><STRONG>Now is the time for us to come together, to unite across our
differences, and to protect one another in pursuit of the world we want and
deserve.</STRONG></P>
<P>So look after others, look after yourself, and stay resilient.</P>
<P><EM>In solidarity,</EM></P>
<P>May and the whole 350.org team</P>
<P>P.S. What would happen if the world reacted as urgently to the climate crisis
as we’re reacting to the coronavirus? What would a fast, coordinated, collective
response to climate breakdown look like? These are questions I <A
href="https://act.350.org/go/191368?t=8&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit&akid=116426%2E4050260%2E7xX6zo">grapple
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=350@350.org href="mailto:350@350.org">May Boeve - 350.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 19, 2020 2:22 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Community care is greater than the Coronavirus</DIV></DIV>
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