{"id":637,"date":"2020-05-11T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undod.cymru\/?p=637"},"modified":"2020-05-26T21:49:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T20:49:22","slug":"cymru-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undod.cymru\/en\/2020\/05\/11\/cymru-covid19\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories from the grassroots: Wales and Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winning radical independence for Wales requires a network of organisations to communicate our ideas, bring people together and agitate for the transformation we want to see. That\u2019s why we\u2019ll be sharing highlights from Wales\u2019 growing grassroots media that you may have missed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Desolation Radio have been providing regular analysis of the Welsh government\u2019s pandemic response [<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2HU5ZpdUzBDxoC5gBcNjHi?si=H_ToCNFiRhiMk-nJaQFEAg\">Spotify<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/desolationradio\/\">Soundcloud<\/a>] [<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/desolation-radio\/id1174066088\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>], including a detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/desolationradio\/73-desolation-goes-viral-3-coronavirus-primer-w-dr-christian-maine\">discussion on the science<\/a> of the Covid-19.<\/li>\n<li>Voice.Wales is centring the experiences of working class people during the pandemic. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voice.wales\/we-are-being-sacrificed-furious-nhs-workers-turn-on-the-government-over-covid-deaths\/\">&#8220;we are being sacrificed&#8221;<\/a> for a dispatch from frontline workers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Wales.Pol\/\">Wales.pol<\/a> is a new channel creating podcasts and videos centring grassroots campaigns in Wales &#8211; from renters\u2019 rights to fighting for justice for Christopher Kapessa.<\/li>\n<li>Our own Dan Evans\u2019 latest article is an essential need: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@DrDanEvans\/no-going-back-to-normal-the-left-must-seize-the-moment-and-dominate-the-crisis-8d281588ed09\">No going back to normal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/news-opinion\/covid-19-now-moment-change-18139624\">Laura McAllister\u2019s bold columns in WalesOnline<\/a> have been a rare voice in the mainstream media for transforming Welsh society after lockdown.<\/li>\n<li>Valleys Underground, the community and political action network has launched a new YouTube channel &#8211; their debut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dTfvAiGOke8&amp;feature=youtu.be\">video looks at the failures of devolution<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>In O&#8217;r Pedwar Gwynt, former GP Gruffudd Penrhyn Jones <a id=\"LPNoLP875245\" href=\"https:\/\/pedwargwynt.cymru\/dadansoddi\/gol\/chwilio-am-yr-arall\"><\/a>reflects on the way in which <a href=\"https:\/\/pedwargwynt.cymru\/dadansoddi\/gol\/chwilio-am-yr-arall\">the response to Covid-19 plays into some old myths<\/a> &#8211; especially that of the Other. (Cymraeg)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>In Nation.Cymru another of our members, Robat Idris writes as on how <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.cymru\/opinion\/coronavirus-has-highlighted-the-unfairness-faced-by-our-rural-welsh-communities\/\">Covid-19 has exposed the longstanding challenges<\/a> faced by rural communities in Wales (Cymraeg \/ English).<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>And on Planet Extra there&#8217;s another opportunity to read Mark Redfern&#8217;s essay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetmagazine.org.uk\/planet-extra\/when-vice-came-swansea\">When Vice came to Swansea<\/a> and the misrepresentation of Welsh working-class culture &#8211; which recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iuhYjn4oupw\">won the WalesPENCymru Emyr Humphreys Award<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winning radical independence for Wales requires a network of organisations to communicate our ideas, bring people together and agitate for the transformation we want to see. 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