What To Do If You Can't Protest: On Organizing Beyond The Frontlines

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=brgP6JXOlNM

Christina Val, a survivor of police violence, has endorsed the Seattle Affected Persons Program (APP)!

Thank you, Christina for your endorsement!

Learn more about our work to create a permanent, independent office dedicated to providing direct resources to victims of police violence and their families by visiting our website: https://seattleapp.org/

During our Valentine’s Day tabling event earlier this year, we offered the community the opportunity to write notes to victims of police violence & their families. We've attached some of those heartfelt messages so that those impacted by police violence know that they are not alone.

Being a moderator can be frustrating, isolating, even traumatic.

IFTAS Connect brings mutual support when it matters most - during harassment waves, burnout, or just a tough decision.

You’re not alone.

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$1900 is needed by 6/30 so this family can stay housed. Please contribute if you can and/or share the graphic with your networks!

What To Do If You Can't Protest: On Organizing Beyond The Frontlines by Prince Shakur

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=brgP6JXOlNM

Mental health tip that is secretly antifa in action, that I learned from @DionRa:

When you are down on yourself or have intrusive thoughts or otherwise feel like "my brain hates me", "my brain is being mean" —

This has a source outside of you. It's not a part of you that randomly decided to make your life shit for no reason. That's not how brains or psyches or emotions or humans or mental health works. If you suffer, it's because someone MAKES you suffer!

You're being oppressed, you're being exploited, you're being neglected, your rights are trampled on, you're being threatened, you might suffer systemic violence and/or interpersonal abuse. You suffer from helplessness in the face of injustice and cruelty around you.

And I know many of you know this and I know it's often overwhelming to think about. I am living that right now.

But it is important to remember as often as you can, where that comes from. To try and get specific. Who in your life is hurting you or threatening or gaslighting? Who is exposing you to oppression? Who is abusing you at home or in activist spaces?

We can't fight our own brains and "win". We can't just accept suffering either. We can only work towards more safety and more freedom and more justice by getting as specific and unflinching as we can when tracing our sufferings back to their sources.

Then fight the source. Bring the fight to them. Just being clear in your own mind changes how interactions play out! It's not easy, but it IS worth it and it gets easier with every exercise.

Sometimes you can just disengage. Unfollow, block, give monosyllabic responses if you have to. You can cut your own parents out of your life if you want to. You can find ways to get by without bosses.

Otherwise, make them at least work for it. Don't give in easily to injustices, especially the very normalised ones. Be "unreasonable" and difficult! Use the privileges you do have. Keep asking "Why?" as if you're 4 again.

Just do what you feel like. Sit or lie down or jump around for no other reason than you feel like it. Eat what catches your fancy. Eat until you feel like doing something else, even if you're already "full" (diet culture messed up your perception of your body's needs!) Sing, laugh uproariously, swear and yell. Sigh. Just stare blankly into space if that feels peaceful. Sleep more.

Connect to your body, reconnect over and over again. Be THERE for yourself, be in yourself, in your body. Connect body, mind and action.

I'm asking for help to pay rent and groceries for next month, at least until I find a job and get an income. #mutualaidrequest #mutaualaid #communitycare

Anything helps. I have 400 rn (200 in savings and an incoming survivor spouse pension payment). That's not enough to pay rent and food and transportation while I keep looking for a job.

https://liberapay.com/vanillachai42/donate
https://paypal.me/VanillaChai42
LTC (I don't like crypto but I use it for HRT so might as well) : MLDxPXTjo3h5bZog9W6EmBrmSwDVVPDyZY

Stuck tonight without funds or shelter. Any small help is huge! Might stay with a friend, but need an Uber to get there.

https://paypal.me/adontai or Venmo at adontaimason

MUTUAL AID REQUEST:

Background story: back in 2015ish my sister Amy had a dental extraction that went badly. In the time since, she's had intermittent pain at the extraction site, and finally had to go to three dental surgeons for a consultation about that pain. She doesn't have dental insurance to cover this because she's disabled and on Medicaid.

The surgeons all determined that there was a hole in her mandible where the tooth had been, and a bunch of shards from that tooth and part of the jawbone had become embedded in the gum. They told her she would urgently need to get the shards extracted, to have bone grafted into the hole to prevent further possibility of infection and widening into the sinus cavity, and that she would need implants.

The total cost of these procedures is going to hit almost $14k. She's already had the first surgery!

Please donate or share if you can #mutualaid #communitycare #gofundme

https://gofund.me/35206427
Help Amy With Crippling Dental Costs

I'm asking for help to pay rent and groceries for next month, at least until I find a job and get an income. #mutualaidrequest #mutaualaid #communitycare

Anything helps. I have 400 rn (200 in savings and an incoming survivor spouse pension payment). That's not enough to pay rent and food and transportation while I keep looking for a job.

https://liberapay.com/vanillachai42/donate
https://paypal.me/VanillaChai42
LTC (I don't like crypto but I use it for HRT so might as well) : MLDxPXTjo3h5bZog9W6EmBrmSwDVVPDyZY

Please donate and/or share!

Notes to the Affected Community.

During our last event at The Heron’s Nest, we offered the community the opportunity to write notes to victims of police violence & their families. We've attached some of those heartfelt messages so that those impacted by police violence know that they are not alone.

awww. what a sweet way for teens to connect with seniors in their communities

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/senior-prom-long-term-care-home-1.7553814

This message is from an immigration attorney, Renée, that I know personally. She has been working pro bono or pay what you can for all of the families she's been helping for the last year plus.

Despite working for free, she still works her ass off to help families avoid detention and deportation, and absolutely goes above and beyond as a rule.

Please consider donating or sharing if it is within your capacity. This particular client is Venezuelan, in removal proceedings (they agreed to have this shared), and are in need of funds for an expert witness to hopefully prevent said removal.

#DirectAid #MutualAid #Immigration #FuckICE @mutualaid #CommunityCare