Banding Together
To Confront COVID-19
COVID-19 is a stark reminder we are all in this together — one, interconnected, global community. We will best handle Coronavirus by listening to our health experts and practicing social distancing, but also find creative ways to maintain our social connections, support one another, and band together to confront this threat. As the coronavirus spreads across our country, it is also exposing inequities and injustices in our society: Who has health care and who doesn’t? Who has paid sick leave, adequate child care, and housing and who doesn’t? Who has rainy day savings and who is as little as $500 away from economic calamity?
Similar to the Great Depression, we need an aggressive response that will safeguard the health of our communities and tackle the associated economic crisis. We need a People’s New Deal that creates a more fair, humane and just America.
BANDING TOGETHER TO CONFRONT COVID-19
We have created this page to provide reliable information to stay informed, stay safe, and take action. We are also advocating aggressive policy that will safeguard the health of our communities and tackle the associated economic crisis. As we confront the coronavirus, we must commit ourselves to creating a more fair, humane and just America.
POLICY THAT PUTS PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS
An unprecedented crisis, requires an aggressive response. Read Alan’s six editorials.
HOW WE CAN ALL HELP
Donate to organizations that are on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis, both locally in the Massachusetts 4th District and around the nation: Direct Relief, Meals On Wheels, No Kid Hungry, Project Bread, and The National Domestic Workers Alliance.
Watch ‘Come Together with Alan Khazei’ virtual town halls.
Alan and Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of “Think Outside the Building,” as well as Youthbuild Alumnus Sean Connel. How innovative approaches can help tackle the COVID crisis. April 29, 2020
Alan and Congressperson Jamie Raskin, March for our Lives Midwest Regional Organizing Director Linnea Stanton, and Sunrise Movement National Spokesperson Saya Ameli Hajebi. What the COVID stimulus has accomplished and action needed in the next stimulus and beyond. New ideas and how to nurture progressive movements in the age of social distancing discussed. April 8, 2020.
Alan with Chairman & CEO of Eastern Bank Bob Rivers and small business owner Ryan Nahas. How COVID19 is affecting small businesses and proposals for how to protect our Main Street economy. April 6, 2020
Alan & Dr. George Daley, Dean of Harvard Medical School. March 19, 2020
Action Plan to Confront COVID-19 Public Health and Economic Crisis
Our government must act quickly, decisively, and comprehensively to minimize the spread of COVID-19, prepare for a wider outbreak, care for acute patients, and make investments to ensure every American family and small business affected can weather this economic downturn. We need the same spirit of immediate action, innovation, and mobilization we had during the Great Depression and World War II.