Spent the week running on adrenaline, grief, terror, reading, and singing. Somewhere in there I put out this episode about mutual aid.
My community feels like all I have right now. Andrea taught me a lot about how to make community happen.
CW: mentions Child sexual abuse, leaving Mormonism, death, systemic abandonment of folks without housing.
https://untanglingourselves.com/episode/5da8f247/mutual-aid-with-andrea-schrimp
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It is encouraging to see that people get it...
Because I'm so tired of people feigning ignorance.
#Hunger #SNAP #FoodInsecurity #feedpeople #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #NoBillionaires
SNAP/EBT cuts mean more people will go hungry this winter—right before the holidays. This is a policy choice, not an accident. Support food pantries & mutual aid. Demand better. #SNAPcuts #foodinsecurity #mutualaid #Pennsylvania #feedpeople #EndHunger
The imminent cuts to SNAP/EBT benefits will exacerbate hunger for vulnerable families, just before winter and the holidays. This urgent issue highlights the systemic neglect towards the poor in a wealthy nation. Immediate action is necessary; communities must support food pantries and mutual aid efforts to combat hunger and ensure…
SNAP/EBT cuts mean more people will go hungry this winter—right before the holidays. This is a policy choice, not an accident. Support food pantries & mutual aid. Demand better. #SNAPcuts #foodinsecurity #mutualaid #Pennsylvania #feedpeople #EndHunger
The imminent cuts to SNAP/EBT benefits will exacerbate hunger for vulnerable families, just before winter and the holidays. This urgent issue highlights the systemic neglect towards the poor in a wealthy nation. Immediate action is necessary; communities must support food pantries and mutual aid efforts to combat hunger and ensure…
William Henry Brisbane, Baptist minister, says that American chattel slavery was a system of violence against the poor, needy, and stranger (Ezekiel (22:29).
It’s interesting that “vexation” is condemned. Those who might blush at calling it robbery cannot deny the widespread vexation. Is there anything going on today that vexes the stranger?
How can you provide relief to the poor and stranger?
Every time you eat be grateful for it because hundreds of millions of people are still starving now. Be grateful for whatever food you have, no matter how much it is. Food is a basic human need that no human being throughout history can deny.
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #food #foods #savefood #hunger #hungry #starvation #starving #history #basicneed #basicneeds #humanneed #humanneeds #begrateful #grateful #imgrateful #noonecandeny #feedthehungry #feedpeople
Richard Bernard, Puritan, on the governor, Nehemiah, who refused pay (chapter 5) when his people suffered in bondage. Great persons excelling in stature & wealth should be “melting” before the deserve to be called great. Bernard laments that he lives a frozen, cruel and an iron age.
“Melting”. Isn’t this the very antithesis of modern theology?
How can you be “melting” and truly great today?
William Garden Blaikie, Scottish Presbyterian, on this world He says it has been designed by God to be improveable for the greater welfare of the human race.
Thinking: penicillin, steel, mosquito netting. Then: opioids, nukes, using asbestos or As2O3 as a pesticide.
These tools around us are a gift from God, but any invention for profit isn’t therefore sanctified.
How can we build & create for our neighbor?