Confronting Global Apartheid Demands Global Solidarity
AfricaFocus Bulletin
Editor s Note The COVID-19 pandemic has both revealed and deepened structural
inequalities around the world. Nearly every country has been hit by
economic downturn, but the impacts are unevenly felt. Within and
across countries, the people who have suffered most are those already
disadvantaged by race, class, gender, or place of birth, reflecting
the harsh inequality that has characterized our world for centuries.
Regular readers of AfricaFocus Bulletin will already be familiar with the US-Africa Bridge Building Project, founded by Imani Countess, on which I am working as a consultant. This AfricaFocus Bulletin contains the first essay in the project s Transnational Solidarity Playbook, which is being released on the project website today. The format for that website was designed by Go!Creative and Village Green Consulting, and is much more professionally designed and attractive than the wo
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On her third day as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Marcia Fudge phoned the White House. She had taken over an agency with a role to play addressing a range of crises as the lack of affordable housing in U.S. cities has left hundreds of thousands homeless and millions more in financial straits. She connected with Joe Biden’s climate team. Fudge and Gina McCarthy, Biden’s national climate adviser, talked about addressing climate change and the affordable-housing shortage at the same time. Three weeks later, the Administration announced plans to provide for more than 1 million resilient and energy-efficient housing units. “People are actually, from every agency, knocking on our doors,” says McCarthy, “wondering how they can be part of what is essentially a hopeful future.”
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Hundreds Of Companies Call For U.S. To Slash Carbon Emissions By
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More than 300 businesses have signed an open letter calling on the Biden administration to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to at least half of 2005 levels by 2030. That would nearly double a previous target set by former President Barack Obama in 2015, who pledged a 25 to 28% reduction by 2025.
The United States is not currently on track to meet either goal.