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Below is our weekly round up of news and commentary, plus links to support services if you need them... hope you can manage to keep positive and healthy.

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Reading Room

Stranded super-rich confront tax chaos after pandemic lockdowns.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/stranded-super-rich-confront-tax-chaos-after-pandemic-lockdowns-1.1434906

New safety measures at Victoria Park are in place from Saturday 16 May
https://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/

Green space is important for wellbeing but in poorer areas visits to parks have dropped.
https://neweconomics.org/2020/05/parks-are-for-everyone

Public Campaign for the Arts: Raise public awareness about the impact of Covid-19 on the cultural industries and Grow widespread support for a rescue package. Join Here:
https://sites.google.com/view/artscampaign/home

Podcast conversation with John Burn-Murdoch about his work on the visualisations for the Financial Times' "Coronavirus Tracked" page, which has been evolving alongside this outbreak since February 2020.
https://www.visualisingdata.com/2020/05/explore-explain-s1-e3-john-burn-murdoch/

Judicial Review to force UK Government to extend health and safety rights to "gig economy" workers
https://iwgb.org.uk/en/post/judicial-review-to-force-uk-government-to-extend-health-and-safety-rights-to-precarious-workers

Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic

We can't hide behind the bunting – let's face up to what's happened to Britain
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/11/bunting-britain-covid-19-crisis-nationalist?

The Government Response

Too many NHS staff have died - we need a public inquiry
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/too-many-nhs-deaths/

Treasury blueprint to raise taxes and freeze wages to pay for £300bn coronavirus bill
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/12/exclusive-treasury-blueprint-raise-taxes-freeze-wages-pay-300bn/

Coronavirus lockdown: The world reacts to Britain’s ‘incomprehensible’ response, botched testing and care home crisis
https://inews.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-lockdown-analysis-world-reacts-britain-incomprehensible-response-testing-care-home-crisis-2847766

Greeks marvel at Britain's Covid chaos as their lockdown lifts after 150 deaths
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/10/greeks-marvel-at-britains-covid-chaos-as-their-lockdown-lifts-after-150-deaths

Drivers tell of chaos at UK's privately run PPE stockpile
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/coronavirus-uk-privately-run-ppe-stockpile-chaos-movianto

Coronavirus: How many people have died in the UK?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52623141

UK takes a pasting from world's press over coronavirus crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/12/uk-takes-a-pasting-from-worlds-press-over-coronavirus

Coronavirus: Thousands could be forced to leave UK within weeks under current Home Office guidelines
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hundreds-of-thousands-of-benefit-claimants-waiting-for-assessments-as-dwp-staff-diverted-due-to-a9506736.html

Alternative Responses

Robot reminds visitors of safe distancing measures in Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/robot-reminds-visitors-about-safe-distancing-measures-in-bishan-ang-mo-kio-park

I’ve landed in Hong Kong after flying from Paris CDG, via London Heathrow. I now have to wait ~8 hours before I get my #COVID19 test results and thus have ample time to tweet about my experience.
https://twitter.com/laurelchor/status/1260784481159442434

The coronavirus slayer! How Kerala's rock star health minister helped save it from Covid-19. KK Shailaja has been hailed as the reason a state of 35 million people has only lost four to the virus. Here’s how the former teacher did it
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19

Britons want quality of life indicators to take priority over economy
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/10/britons-want-quality-of-life-indicators-priority-over-economy-coronavirus

Car Free Cities

Hackney Cycling Campaign: 10 priority interventions to enable socially distanced movement. 
https://hackneycycling.org.uk/campaigns/priority-interventions/

Poll: Majority of British public support weekly car-free days in towns and cities
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4015120/poll-majority-british-public-support-weekly-car-free-days-towns-cities

Broadway Market - please make it permanently car-free with similar measures across Hackney
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-of-hackney-cllr-jon-burke-please-make-broadway-market-permanently-car-free-with-similar-measures-across-hackney

Emergency road safety measures: Barnabas Road to close to through-traffic
https://news.hackney.gov.uk/emergency-road-safety-measures-barnabas-road-to-close-to-through-traffic/

Green Party Comment

Caroline Lucas: Covid-19 should be a wake-up call to get serious about the climate crisis
https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/coronavirus/2020/05/covid-19-should-be-wake-call-get-serious-about-climate-crisis

Carla Denyer: ‘Protecting renters’ shouldn’t mean that renters pay more
https://www.bristolgreenparty.org.uk/protecting-renters-shouldnt-mean-that-renters-pay-more

Caroline Lucas: Boris Johnson’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been a disaster from the start
https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/13/coronavirus-boris-johnson-leadership-12695872/

Sian Berry responds to Boris Johnson’s public address 10 May
https://www.greenparty.org.uk/news/2020/05/10/sian-berry-responds-to-johnsons-address/

Natalie Bennett: The human in farming
https://greenworld.org.uk/article/human-farming

Amelia Womack: Give youth a voice
https://greenworld.org.uk/article/amelia-womack-give-youth-voice

Jonathan Bartley says the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has shown we can create a safer world, if governments take action now.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-enviromental-destuction-paused-by-lockdown-measures-11982992

Natalie Bennett:Q&A
https://liberalbase.com/2020/04/16/natalie-bennett-qa/

Stop in with Sian - Episode 6 - Speeding and road danger
Featuring award-winning road danger reduction campaigner Victoria LeBrec, who was cycling along when she was in a collision with a skip lorry and lost a leg. We also hear from the head of the Met's Roads and Transport Policing Command, who will be telling us what action he's taking to reduce speeds in the crisis, and keep our roads safe.
https://www.facebook.com/5938132369/videos/278260610231603

Other Links

Moths: Their fragile, winged emanations speak to us urgently of the dark, of the earth, of our own bones, of all we cannot see. 
https://www.sarahgillespie.co.uk/moths/

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-happened-when-six-boys-were-shipwrecked-for-15-months

Lights stay on despite cyber-attack on UK's electricity system
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/14/lights-stay-on-despite-cyber-attack-on-uks-electricity-system

Covid-19 Info, Advice & Support

We've put our help and advice sections on our website now for easy access whenever you need them.

Donations and Help Wanted
Local organisations that need money and support, plus volunteer opportunities.

Supporting Local Business
No need to shop in supermarkets or with Amazon please support local businesses 

Local Support in Hackney
Mutual aid and neighbourhood groups information.

General Advice Pages 
For artists, local businesses, the self employed, renters, how to claim grants, protect your rights etc. Government advice and virus mythbusting

Organisations Offering Support 
Get the help you need here in Hackney

Self Care and Mental Health
Advice on how to look after yourself and others

Activities for Isolation
Highlights from our weekly round up of activities you can do online.

Advice and links is updated regularly and often, so always worth a look, full page here
https://www.hackneygreens.org.uk/covid19_coronavirus_support_listings

Activities for Isolation

Barber Shop Chronicles | National Theatre at Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK30y272nYo&feature=youtu.be

The First Reviews of Every Virginia Woolf Novel
https://bookmarks.reviews/the-first-reviews-of-every-virginia-woolf-novel/

Do you know your Kauffman from your Emin? Test your knowledge of women artists and the Royal Academy of Arts in the The Great Women Artists quiz.
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/quiz-great-women-artists-katy-hessel

Shoreditch Town Hall: Keep up-to-date with the latest online cultural productions and activities during lockdown courtesy of our friends and partner organisations
https://shoreditchtownhall.com/whats-on/lockdown-activities

MIGRANTS MAKE CULTURE 2020' - Migrants in Culture and Keep It Complex: On the 18th of January, around 100 migrant culture workers and allies came together for Migrants in Culture first Activation Day: Migrants Make Culture, at Raven Row, Spitalfields, London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1arPZRSubuU&feature=youtu.be

Bike Project: Join comedian Robin Ince for a night of quizzing fun and laughter, all to raise money to keep our wheels turning and refugees cycling.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bike-project-lockdown-virtual-pub-quiz-with-robin-ince-tickets-104641724214

Online Sustainable(ish) Festival
https://www.asustainablelife.co.uk/the-sustainableish-online-festival/

Lots more here on our help and advice pages

And finally..

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