Stories are powerful medicine! ✨ Will you help us provide storybook resources for kids experiencing climate disaster, grief, and recovery? Our co-op is partnering with Tepeyac Mountain Sanctuary to get trauma-informed book sets to children impacted by Hurricane Helene!

Visit https://firestorm.coop/helene to see the book wishlist and support the campaign with a book purchase for as little as $10. Please also share this post to help us reach a wider audience!

#HurricaneHelene #HurricaneHeleneRelief #KidLit #ChildrensBooks #ChildrensMentalHealth #FeministBookstore #Asheville #FirestormCoop (- L)

No job, can't drink the water, and there's a tree on your roof? Rent is still due!? These landlords are off their gourds! 🤯

On Saturday, we're inviting you to carve a pumpkin, connect with neighbors, and raise much needed money for disaster rent relief. For this event, Firestorm is partnering with the folks at Grace Covenant to direct funds to some of our most vulnerable neighbors. (Sure, the anarchists and the church folks teaming up for a Halloween event sounds like the setup to a joke, but we've seen the great work they're doing and we've got a long history of collaborating with people who are into the version of Jesus that loved sex workers and flipped tables.)

Carving tools and hot apple cider will be provided to all participants and no one will be turned away for lack of funds! If you're feeling laid-back, we'll have some jack-o'-lantern templates for you to try on. If you're feeling ambitious, join the competition for the best gourd and maybe you'll walk away with a $100 gift card to our bookshop! 🎃

Tell your friends! Costumes encouraged! Full event details can be found at https://firestorm.coop/events/3289-these-landlords-are-off-their-gourds-pumpkin-carving-benefit.html

#RentRelief #HousingIsAHumanRight #PumpkinCarvingContest #PumpkinCarvingParty #HalloweenParty #HurricaneHeleneRelief #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)

“FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, N.C., to stand down and evacuate the county immediately. The message stated that National Guard troops ‘had come across ... trucks of armed militia saying they were out hunting FEMA.’”

And this is what misinformation and rumors have led to… mobs of people threatening and hunting down those who are there to help them... UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!
#NorthCarolina #HurricaneHeleneRelief #HurricaneHelene #FEMA #Lies

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/10/13/federal-officials-nc-temporarily-relocated-amid-report-armed-militia-email-shows/

We are receiving updates from the Pagan community in Western North Carolina intermittently as some services occasionally make for communication. The Wild Hunt’s amazed at the work and resilience of our community in the region.

https://wildhunt.org/2024/10/an-update-from-western-north-carolina.html

#blueridgepaganfest #parsfortuna #asheville #hurricanehelene #HurricaneHeleneRelief #byronballard #calamusandhoney #mothergrovegoddesstemple #wandandearth #mortellus #pagan