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The community-led movement creating hope in the time of coronavirus

  • Written by Sango Mahanty, Associate professor, Australian National University
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the social networks we rely on. Workplaces, pubs, restaurants and gyms have closed and many people are now housebound.

COVID-19 represents a major rupture in the status quo and calls for new forms of response. Perhaps this is why thousands of new “mutual aid” groups have sprung up...

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