take your pick, everywhere needs help, if you'd normally donate $20 to a bail fund but you have a fancy salaried tech job maybe donate $20 to every one on this list?
https://www.autostraddle.com/43-bail-funds-you-can-absolutely-support-right-now/
re: Intentional Misinformation - MN protests
Developers and their politician puppets have been using this tactic of development for years with phenomenal success; it's literally impossible to have a discussion about stopping new development without someone, very often on the left, complaining that you're preventing poor people from having homes. It's a sadistic, disingenuous practice that has ruined countless cities. If affordability is based on AMI, it's a lie! (pt 2 of 2)
Intentional Misinformation - MN protests
I have to speak up as someone who works in zoning/urban planning. The narrative of protesters in Minneapolis burning an affordable housing complex is COMPLETE SHIT. This is the website for the project: https://midtowncorner.com/
As you can see, only 20% of the units are "affordable". Affordability here is based on the neighborhood's income, which will rise as more rich people move in. All this to say, people know what the hell they're burning. (pt 1)
As your Riot Dad I need you to drink water and carry water and cliff bars or other high calorie food with you.
You know what this means?
You get a fanny pack and some cargo pants. The benefit of this is having pockets for food and water so you won't pass out, but also you can carry sharpies for writing NLG numbers on people's arms who may not have a sharpie
You can also carry your meds!
If you need medication I recommend taking your bottles with enough for two to three days keep it on you.
Dumb historical metaphors
Everyone said that the 2010s were a repeat of the 1960s when they were more clearly in line with the 1920s (increasing class divide and division between rural and poor areas, relatively good economy, xenophobia and racist organizations gaining power, new immigrant communities forming)
hi all, the minnesota freedom fund (which afaict is getting a lot of the donation traffic) has recommended also donating to reclaim the block (https://t.co/RfymLGhVc2) and black visions collective (https://t.co/7L4oV1LKtz), both of them local mutual aid organizations
if you're in the same boat as me (i.e. getting a paycheck from a tech job today) consider whether you've got the resources to keep giving, including if you've already made a donation
here's the tweet where they request this btw: https://twitter.com/MNFreedomFund/status/1266053143512653826
I don't really have a solution because I believe in violent revolution but the reality is they will take your actions out on us.
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own