Mastodawn

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care

Rapid-response networks and mutual aid are not charity. They’re shared infrastructure for collective care and survival.

https://murica.website/2026/02/anti-ice-organizing-is-creating-counter-institutions-based-on-care/

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based on Care – The USA Potato

Caro S.Sep 6, 2025

"I’ve seen a lot of people lashing out at people horizontally, and my gut sense is that sometimes it happens because the folks who are lashing out are definitely super traumatized, in crisis, feel and are really powerless in a lot of ways,” disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in conversation with host Kelly Hayes and Elliott Fukui, who develops community safety strategies for emotional wellness and safety, about why people are struggling right now, what’s keeping people alive and engaged, and what we need to create together to survive these times.

https://truthout.org/audio/keeping-each-other-alive-mental-health-and-collective-survival/

#activism #MentalHealth #DisabilityActivism #CollectiveSurvival #ABetterWorldIsPossible

Keeping Each Other Alive: Mental Health and Collective Survival

“We cannot become what it is that has harmed us in the first place,” says Elliott Fukui.

Truthout

Danny (he/they)Mar 5, 2023

This morning i went to visit Suga Ray who is in day 6 of his #hunger #strike, drawing attention to our #CollectiveSurvival. He's calling for us to #struggle for #justice in front of the D.O.E. building the #government was eager to give to #amazon but have less eager to turn over to a #community land trust. I'm excited to find ways to take this energy and act!

https://www.lashawnmarston.com/post/hungry-for-justice-a-hunger-strike-sleep-in
Read more about the land trust here: https://wqclt.org/current-projects

Hungry For Justice: A Hunger Strike & Sleep-In

For the duration of 2 weeks, from Tuesday, February 28th until Tuesday March 14th (my 39th bday), I'll be conducting a hunger strike and subsequent sleep-in. I have arrived at this end due to a few things, but most importantly, because of the complacency of both the people in this city who say they care, and the government that we know doesn't care. When I completed my 10 day fast a few weeks ago, I came to realize even deeper the privilege that I, and many of us, hold. When it comes to the basi

Lashawn Marston

Dead Astronaut Dec 20, 2022

"The theory, framework, and practice of #abolition isn’t just a response to the oppressions created and maintained by #imperialism, #WhiteSupremacy, #capitalism, and cis-hetero #patriarchy. Abolitionists also argue that it is necessary for our #CollectiveSurvival.

In this collection of reported features and op-eds published by #Prism, we offer readers a look at what abolition is and why it is needed to deconstruct structural oppressions."

https://prismreports.org/2022/12/20/abolition-reading-list/