cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2736752

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/2637243

My fiend Mike in Arizona is collecting donations to buy Starbucks gift cards, these are wonderful ways to give somebody a chance to get in out of the summer heat into the air conditioning, enjoy a coffee and use the restroom and wifi. He will be purchasing as many $5(USD) gift cards as he can and handing them out to folks who could use it.
Please give if you can, the gift cards are definitely a "luxury" perk but as a survivor of homelessness himself Mike has stressed how nice it is to be an actual customer when it's hot outside and you just want to get in out of it and sit down. The value is so much greater than just the $5. You can get your donation in any of the following ways: BTC: 31np4xM1N5jHFwAVHWJJCd9GR2HJbazXwn ETH: 0x1C966e1028Ab0cF602DEBfb099F96d9D71241d08 LTC: MFPoHBBm8hwpEkmnTDg1hFbap5Zm6maGTW Paypal: [email protected] Venmo: @mikesteraz Cash App: $mikeshipley Zelle: 602 492 4201

#coffee4all

I was thinking a lot about the idea of using church entities as ways to establish neighborhood councils as was discussed a bit on mastodon and I wanted to start a thread here where we can share some resources and try to build a fairly straight forward process for anybody that might want to do this. This has a lot benefits including being able to shift resources from the state to entities that are building stronger communities for leftists. I think if we can put together a kind of established litany of things we believe, creeds etc that could be used to establish legitimacy as church, this could be a solid replicator process for establishing a more anarchistic way of life within our society which is often at times hostile to anarchism.

Is anyone planning on getting HAM certified or anything? If so, is there any interest in creating a study group or some type of information exchange for it? Not entirely sure how it'll look yet.

So probably the first thing I was thinking and I would love to get feedback from others on this is to create a Mutual Aid Fund and an Email account for taking requests for help. That way we could be constantly collecting money and then as people send in requests we could send out money for anything they need help with. Has anybody here had experience with that, know of a good service to use for this? I guess cashapp/venmo maybe at least as long as amounts don't go too high. If there is something better I could explore, I'd like to do so though.

I figure I will go first, but I am Hurin(They/Them), I am an anarcho-communist interested in community defense, mutual aid and internet privacy/security among other things I won't list here. I have been working on numerous mutual aid projects for a few years now and figured since I spend enough time online it might be good to work on building something across localities, particularly given the state of the Pandemic and the implications that has for our safety. I am looking forward to learning more about healthcare/herbalism, radio communication, organizing and anything else I can learn that I can take back to my community to make a difference.