NO SHOOTING, NO HUNGER, NO COVID

Abstract

These are times of intense struggle. The cover of this issue brings the strength and resilience of those who battle to stay alive in a structurally racist country.

In the midst of the pandemic that ravages a large part of the world, Brazil takes black people to the countless graves. There are so many threats that it is necessary every day to resist and expose this reality every time we get up.

In the peripheries where the majority of blacks live, there is the informality of the work that makes it unviable to be at home to protect oneself, crowded public transportation, and even the lack of conditions to get alcohol gel or appropriate masks, which has led to the death of thousands. Without adequate support from the State, we see the blatant genocide that does not even seek disguise. The lack of space at home to isolate those infected with the Covid-19 virus makes contagion inevitable. The expected relief of resources for the sustenance of so many who were left without income arrived with inhuman delay.

Unprecedentedly we receive news of police violence in the slums, the gunshots that only see the color on the bodies, the social injustice and the failure of justice that judges and convicts with bullets. Blood pours out bringing pain and revolt.
We want vaccine for all, conditions to keep our families out of vulnerability and with good schools. Hope moves us for our children. For the future. No shooting, no hunger, no covid. We want to live.