1 00:00:01,740 --> 00:00:05,340 Capitalism is failing. 2 00:00:05,980 --> 00:00:11,560 Millions of us can’t pay our rent, buy groceries or get the tests or treatment we need. 3 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:15,060 Medical facilities are underfunded and overwhelmed. 4 00:00:15,060 --> 00:00:19,320 Those of us who still have jobs must risk our lives for each paycheck. 5 00:00:21,820 --> 00:00:27,340 Prisons and detention centers have become COVID-19 death camps packed with demographics 6 00:00:27,340 --> 00:00:28,880 deemed expendable. 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:35,120 Factories, warehouses and meat processing plants have become sites of active contagion, 8 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:40,340 presenting the virus an opportunity to hitchhike on corporate supply lines. 9 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:45,760 Under these conditions, capitalists are demanding a return to business as usual 10 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:50,719 while governments introduce even more surveillance and control. 11 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:57,280 It’s never been clearer that this system prioritizes profits over human life. 12 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:02,500 As politicians conjure trillions of dollars out of thin air 13 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:05,980 and massive factories are repurposed on a whim, 14 00:01:06,960 --> 00:01:10,040 it’s obvious that the problem isn’t scarcity. 15 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:12,900 It’s distribution. 16 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:19,300 Rather than petitioning for better management, we need to take things into our own hands. 17 00:01:20,540 --> 00:01:25,920 The greatest power we have is our ability to refuse to keep this system running. 18 00:01:27,620 --> 00:01:31,060 All around the world, people are starting to learn how to do this. 19 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:33,660 Workers are walking off the job. 20 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:39,200 Prisoners are organizing hunger strikes, rioting and launching daring escapes. 21 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:44,660 Millions of tenants are withholding their rent, in a collective action that could become 22 00:01:44,660 --> 00:01:47,900 the first global rent strike in history. 23 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:53,040 Let’s use May Day to take stock of the historic moment we find ourselves in, and redouble 24 00:01:53,050 --> 00:01:55,619 our efforts in the weeks and months to come. 25 00:01:55,620 --> 00:01:57,120 Help those in need. 26 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:03,840 Defend the unemployed, front-line workers, health care workers, prisoners 27 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,420 and everyone threatened with eviction. 28 00:02:06,420 --> 00:02:09,980 Organize and fight like there’s no tomorrow. 29 00:02:09,980 --> 00:02:12,840 Nothing is going back to normal.