#Disabled #Indigenous Latina family, #Homeless in hotel
$336 NEEDED IMMEDIATELY!
https://ko-fi.com/post/Two-Hours-U6U81FVVYZ
https://PayPal.me/SabiLewSounds
https://Cash.app/toadlyturtle
https://Venmo.com/toadlyturtle
(Note: Sabi)
#Disabled #Indigenous Latina family, #Homeless in hotel
$336 NEEDED IMMEDIATELY!
https://ko-fi.com/post/Two-Hours-U6U81FVVYZ
https://PayPal.me/SabiLewSounds
https://Cash.app/toadlyturtle
https://Venmo.com/toadlyturtle
(Note: Sabi)
A word from my associate Devi, regarding Black trans activist, Ashley Diamond.
Ashley's been struggling to find consistent help, and she could use some material support to survive being unhoused in this hellscape.
CA: $protagonist1017
Ven: Ashley-Diamond-34
#DirectAid #MutualAid #TransCrowdFund #Abolition #PrisonAbolition #Anarchy #Anarchism #CommunityCare #Community @mutualaid
Ntirhisano Community Centre – Chiawelo, Soweto, South Africa
Rooted in solidarity and collective care, Ntirhisano is a Black, queer-led space committed to building liberatory alternatives outside state and corporate control.
https://www.radical-guide.com/listing/ntirhisano-community-centre/
I made a post on the #MetaDemon finally telling my story of betrayal and abuse to process trauma and my chronic attachment trauma
The result - my abuser who had been anonymous (except among my close friends who have witnessed part of the abuse) self disclosed and is threatening me
Such is the life of the #marginalized
I haven't been able to ask for #CommunityCare to stay housed as a result please help, we're very behind
$479 needed by 11 AM ET tomorrow
When I say #CommunityCare or #MutualAid this is what I mean
https://ko-fi.com/post/Thats-the-only-way-we-do-it-is-together-R5R01F898I
I never expect anyone to do everything to save my #disabled family but I would hope that those who claim to want a new world and end #facism would try to keep those who want the same alive
Together we can bring life by dismantling the death machine
Those who don't dissent, divest or resist through #CommunityCare ARE equally as violent as those #facist they fear
But go on and assume bigoted views rooted in Anti-Blackness and #Ablism and don't believe victims if ongoing #systemic oppression and injustice when we ask for pennies for food
Or a simple fucking #boost when even $1 from a few people would help us eat
Re: The tornado path in #StLouis Missouri so-called USA. #STL is a very racially segregated city, due to the history of chattel slavery during and post-Indigenous genocide and westward expansion of the settler state. These neighborhoods that the tornado hit are mostly Black and very materially neglected and deprived by the systems that exist. The area is largely out of internet access now, as well.
Learn a bit more: https://web.archive.org/web/20250410145531/https://www.mohumanities.org/redlined-observations-on-black-migration-in-st-louis/
Or a lot more: https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=126145B96186DF7539D4615F11B6F3A7
All that to say. These communities are in a lot of need right now. People are missing, hurt, and without shelter and food. Here are some opportunities for #directaid:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-rubys-family-rebuild-after-tornado-devastation
habe tbh gerade null energie, um mich über das merz'sche horrorkabinett aufzuregen und dann fällt mir wieder ein, dass es dafür eh noch genug gelegenheiten geben wird
falls es euch auch so geht, hier wieder mal der reminder: it's a marathon, not a sprint. und es ist auch völlig in ordnung, wenn nicht sogar die bessere strategie, sich auf einzelne themenbereiche zu konzentrieren, statt von der gesamten schrecklichkeit überfordern und dann ausbremsen zu lassen. #CommunityCare #DEPol #Merz
Update as of 3:10PM EST on 4/28
$974 needed before 11am tomorrow morning! #urgent
Waking up to find that Sabi's needs are not met yet!
Please chip in... engage with the post, comment, say hi, send a little something. NO amount too big or small.
see about them, please. #mutualaid #communitycare #Disability #Pastdue #indigenousmutualaid
Update as of 4/28/2025 Need unmet! Please be kind and chip in!
For the sibs abroad! #mutualaid #communitycare #BlackFediverse
Americans, particularly white Americans, really need some education on long-form organizing and protests. How protest culture needs to be founded on community care and resilence for long-term resistance.
And such revolutionary work requires building a foundation of community resilence through strategies including street medics, mask blocs, mending and repair libraries, community gardens, mutual aid networks, alternative healthcare options, collective access, transformative justice work, free legal assistance, educating each other, sharing skills, writing and art, and the like.
I can't really sum this up as it's a multilayered topic, but I'll point out past movements that used various community care and resilence strategies in their long-term resistance. Resources at the end.
Civil Rights Movement had built up a lot of community care, educating their people, and alternatives of societal systems for their survival. These were used for some of their biggest actions (Black Panthers and MLK Jr often worked together due to the foundation Black Panthers built).
Disabled and Non-Disabled Miners had built up some mutual aid and distribution of supplies, which is why their wildcat strikes were some of the longest running in US Labor history.
STAR, the trans led revolutionary group, built up similarly before and during some of their biggest actions. They built up housing for each other, food distribution, educating others, as well as disruptive protest.
Indigenous resistance -- see Standing Rock for a recent example -- used mutual aid, community-led healthcare and gardening, cross-movement organizing, housing and food sharing, and other foundational actions to build and continue to build community care and resilence.
The Disabled Sit-in protests and Capitol Crawl had built cross-movement coalitions, such as Butterfly Brigade providing food, Black Panthers offering care assistance, others offering transportation and legal help.
Occupy also built this while it was ongoing. Mutual aids formed (and some still exist today) to distribute supplies and food. Free legal counseling was offered, people shared knowledge together, and even experimented with different styles of decision-making and governance.
Black Lives Matter had built up a lot of this prior from other resistance and tapped it and even expanded the community care strategies in many areas. (Those in my town are still doing this work.)
Yes, the USA turned genocidal and tried to destroy each of these movements, but they failed to stomp us out as many of us survived because of the community built. And many of these movements did win some of their major goals.
A protest with these equitable and often experimental community care foundations is more likely to succeed long-term. It's also a way to build up communities that are resilent and more able to hold firm against the oppressor.
If your praxis does not include these strategies, then that protest isn't ready for the long-term fight. And it'll be more prone to co-option by the state, which will bleed the people dry of our energy for a long-term fight.
And I will always assert that any protest that positions a vulnerable oppressed group as disposable and/or puts them into harms way is actually already co-opted by the oppressors. The protest's message has then been lost, the target the wrong group entirely.
Our goal in this fight against fascism is to build with each other the future we want right now the best we can AND to bring hell to our oppressors.
No one is disposable. Disabled activists, especially those who are multiply marginalized, often say that "We take care of us." That taking care of each other MUST be part of organizing and protesting. It's the best, and historically often the only way to win against our oppressors.
Without community and caring for each other, we won't win.
For more about this:
* Crip Camp documentary
* The Black AntiFascist Tradition by Hope and Muller,
*Emergent Strategy series by Adrienne maree brown,
*Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha,
*From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
* Our History Is Our Future by Nick Estes
* Red Nation Rising by Border Town Violence Working Group and it's follow-up The Red Deal
* White Rage by Carol Anderson
* A Disabled People's History of the United States by Kim Nielsen
* An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Dunbar-Ortiz
* Miss Major Speaks by Miss Major
* Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes
* We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
* Beyond Survival by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
* A People's Guide To Abolition And Disability Justice by Katie Tastrom
* Disability Justice Principles by Sins Invalid
* Surviving The Future edited by Branson, Hudsen, and Reed
* How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
* The Sea is Rising and So Must We: A Climate Justice Handbook by Cynthia Kaufmann
* Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
And I have a whole lot more recommendations, but that should get people started.
To make amends for not rallying today, I've made donations to the food bank & bail fund.
Still find it really odd that there isn't anything in my county today, but I guess there is the assumption that everyone would prefer to schlep up to DC for it.
I still can't do crowds and right now, I absolutely should NOT be walking around with a stick. So, community care it is.
#HandsOff #BailFunds #FoodBanks #CommunityCare
https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory#national
Building Resilience Together: The Power of Community Support
#Resilience #CommunitySupport #MentalHealth #SocialCapital #Wellbeing #CitizenParticipation #CommunityCare #MentalHealthLiteracy #StrongerTogether #Adversity #SupportSystem #PositiveChange
Unraveling Mental Health: A Journey Through Neuroscience, Community, and Culture
#MentalHealth #Neuroscience #CommunityCare #CulturalPsychiatry #Psychiatry #MentalHealthMatters #Therapy #CBT #PsychologicalWellness #MentalHealthAwareness #Epidemiology #BiopsychosocialModel #Support #Stigma #MentalHealthEducation #Wellbeing #Connection #MentalHealthJourney
Donate your empty bottles with this link
https://app.skipthedepot.com/reconciliation
Or send funds directly to;
reconciliationactiongroupyyc@gmail.com
May 5th Red Dress / Ribbon Event
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066680443225
Go Fund Me Link for victim with life altering injuries from Calgary Garbage Truck
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-samantha-victim-of-yyc-garbage-truck-incident
This is Treaty 7 territory
#communitycare #settlersaturday #mutualaidsaveslives
Dans le cadre d'un projet-pilote, Wikimedia CH propose désormais un service de conseil juridique. Ce service s'adresse pour l’instant aux auteurs francophones de Suisse qui sont victimes de harcèlement ou d'autres attaques en rapport avec leurs contributions sur d'autres plateformes wiki. La décision d'admettre un cas à ce service dépend de plusieurs critères.
Pour en savoir plus: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Community_Care/fr
Accompanied my Mom to doctor's appointment this morning. This was mainly for getting another prescription for her recurring gout issue. She got a physical checkup too. Her doctor & his MOA were masked up. None of the other medical clinic staff & no other patients were masked.
Location of masking report: Burnside Medical Clinic - office in lower part of building - there's a different office with same name on main level.
En route to pharmacy to pickup prescription refills. A #SelfPortrait in the car.