As we end 2020 there is some positive news as we start the new year. Trump will be gone. Joe Biden becomes President of the USA on 20 January. There are vaccines out there that work.
There are conscious social movements that can make a difference – from essential workers organising for health and safety and better pay, to the growing international movements for Climate Justice, Black Lives Matter, and the People’s Vaccine.
In Thailand young people are now making themselves heard – demanding a more equitable society and debating previously taboo subjects.
So at least at the start of the year let us all work for something better than the misery that was 2020.
January 2021
Off the rails: Behind Trump’s post-election meltdown Axios
‘An unmitigated disaster’: America’s year of Covid Guardian
Dubai, Pandemic Party Haven, Faces Its Biggest Surge Bloomberg
Covid-19: ‘Don’t end up like us, please’ BBC News
Human Rights Watch – World Report 2021 HRW
Anyone shocked by the US Capitol attack has ignored an awful lot of warning signs Guardian
2021 storming of the United States Capitol Wikipedia
Insurrection Day: when white supremacist terror came to the US Capitol Guardian
Swarms of Trump supporters storm U.S. Capitol Reuters
Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control Washington Post
How one of America’s ugliest days unraveled inside and outside the Capitol Washington Post
2020 was the year of inequality: can we turn it around in 2021? Thomson Reuters Foundation