Smith, JG
(2020)
Responding to coronavirus pandemic: human rights movement-building to transform global capitalism.
Interface : a Journal for and about Social Movements.
1 - 8.
ISSN 2009-2431
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic makes patently clear the limitations and vulnerabilities of the global capitalist system, portending significant changes in the world economy. Given the long history of divisions in the global Left, is there hope that we might forge the unity needed to transform the global economic order? In this essay I argue that global social movement practices and history reveal human rights as a unifying and transformative framework for organizing across issues and across local-global scales. More localized human rights movements are now well situated to help unite and guide transformative global activism in this moment of crisis, and I provide examples from current Pittsburgh and U.S. national human rights cities organizing.
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15 May 2020 |
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Publication |
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Interface : a Journal for and about Social Movements |
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National University of Ireland Maynooth |
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1 - 8 |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Sociology |
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Yes |
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2009-2431 |
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Research Article |
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19 Jun 2020 13:44 |
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21 Jun 2020 04:55 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/39038 |
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