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People were jumping into action here in Minneapolis — droves of people, comfortable people, white people — not in mid-January, but in •early December•. (And the groundwork started much earlier!)
Community meetings overflowing. Signal groups exploding. Observer trainings filling day after day after day. Mutual aid networks popping up like mushrooms. On and on.
Why? Because we saw brown and Black neighbors being dragged from their cars, dragged from their homes, stalked, terrorized, •kidnapped• with barely the slimmest shadow of due process or legal oversight.
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While staying vigilant, we’re embracing the chance to catch our breath and to start healing. The city right now has a bit of the feeling of the days after a natural disaster: there is so much damage to repair. Thousands of people are still sheltering at home, understandably reluctant to go to work and/or school. Thousands are facing imminent eviction when March rent comes due.
There’s organizing around rent relief, talk of a rent strike. Food delivery is still in full swing. Mutual aid is not letting up.
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RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/116240955986507756
We have a revolutionary moment in our hands. I cannot express strongly enough how important it is to seize this moment.
We must *build* an alternative society, starting by drawing people in and giving them opportunities to create a better future. We cannot win with logical arguments, because people are not logical. We must demonstrate, through experience, what we mean when we talk about liberation, autonomy, and mutual aid. We must create the new world in the shell of the old, here and now, so people can understand what it is we are fighting for. This is our best opportunity, right now, to reach out while the window is wide open.
If we miss this opportunity, we may not get another.

This is a direct mutual aid program organized by parents; there’s no nonprofit or governmental intermediary.
I realize that involves a lot of trust, and again, I’m personally vouching for this fundraiser (for whatever that’s worth, I’m just a foot with an eyeball on top on the internet). The advantage of this kind of mutual aid process is that it will get money to families who need it •fast•.
https://givebutter.com/famshelpingfams

When the working class organizes on the basis of solidarity and direct action, workers and communities can collectively manage and control the means of production, while federations of workers and local communities coordinate production and social life through mutual aid and federalist principles, without bosses or the state.
In an era marked by automation, precarity, and deepening inequality, the struggle for workers’ self-management, economic democracy, and social liberation remains …

reclaim conservative phrases and ideas to make them meaningless with the same fervor republicans work to destroy liberal phrases.
be pro-life which I assume means right for food, shelter, and bodily autonomy.
be pro masculinity which I assume means community building and mutual aid.
be MAGA which probably means fighting for immigrants and advancing civil rights.
I'm sure there are problems with this idea but I bet there are good parts we don't get to enjoy.

It’s possible that this is nothing at all, and they’ll be back in full force today. Nobody, and I mean nobody, has suggested that maybe the worst is over.
But we took the days of relative rest anyway. Hmm, “rest” is wrong: mutual aid, food distribution, school observers, people doing laundry for those who can’t go to a laundromat — that continues unabated. But there’s a definite feeling of catching our breath for a moment.
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It's probably worth bumping https://www.blackoutthesystem.com/ again. There are some interesting resources on that site. I was impressed with their mutual aid section.

Hey everyone, I imagine you’re kind of tapped out with Minneapolis mutual aid fundraisers…but if you have a few bucks, this fund for rent & grocery support in my school / neighborhood is looking kind of strapped and will shortly be unable to meet ongoing needs:
https://givebutter.com/rent-and-food-support-31tt0z
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