The one who knows how to lead the community is the one truly worthy of being called a leader.
#Leadership #TrueLeader #CommunityLeader #Inspiration #Motivation #Guidance #Wisdom #PublicService #LeadWithIntegrity #DecisionMaking #LeadershipGoals #StrongLeadership #ServeThePeople
Bombard the New Headquarters, a new compilation release from Hong Kong's Serve the People just came out from United Eastern Tapes!
I am entranced by everything they do. Maoist black metal filtered through Death in June. Primitive, earnest, and unique. Congratulations to SUR on another fascinating tape!
https://servethepeople.bandcamp.com/album/bombard-the-new-headquarters
9 track album
🎉 "Nhịp cầu niềm tin" của Lữ đoàn Anhhùng đã đưa 5 triệu lượt người dân bình an qua sông Hồng tại cầu phao Phong Châu (Phú Thọ) trong gần một năm hoạt động! 🌉 Một thành tựu ấn tượng thể hiện tinh thần "vì dân phục vụ". 🫡🇻🇳
#CầuPhao #AnToànGiaoThông #PhụcVụNhânDân #LữĐoànAnhhùng #ViệtNam
#BridgeSafety #TrafficSafety #ServeThePeople #HeroBrigade #Vietnam
I've found some bedtime movies to watch. Going to watch til I crash out.
Remember - it's your citizens' duty to question & push for actual answers from your elected officials. Remind those privileged fuckers that they were elected to be -> #PublicServants.
None of them were elected to put #CorporateGreed interests over #PublicInterests.
It seems, far too many elected officials forget their main job & 1st priority is to #ServeThePeople. Instead - they're screwing over all of us to pander to #CorporateGreed & not brave enough to stand up to their own inner caucus #corruption. They feed from same corrupted lobbyists' money troughs. Filthy capitalist pigs, getting fat while the rest of us are starving.
FUCKING HELL - FIGHT BACK!
#BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #CDNpoli #NDP #Canada #Colonialism #WhiteSupremacists #YYJpoli #PowerToThePeoples #CitizensUprising #CitizensRevolt #CapitalismKills #GreedKills
Homelessness is a punishment for being poor. No matter your life decisions, health emergencies, or criminal record, being housed should never be put into question. Our homes are what allow all other aspects of life. Housing is the most basic human need beyond air, water, and food. And yet, this economy has never dared to guarantee housing, food, and clean air and water to all who reside under it. We in Warm Up Boston view this as a serious and violent misarrangement of priorities. “Violent” is not an exaggeration when poverty of both the housed and the unhoused leads to an astonishing rate of early deaths.
We choose to act where we have power. In providing food and water to an encampment and to folks in downtown Boston, we are able to provide basic needs for survival. Both of our distributions were successful this week, thanks to the dedicated work of volunteers both on the ground and behind the scenes.
While this work demands a lot from us every week, we find the strength to carry on in the dream of ending this needless suffering. By turning to one another to carry out necessary tasks when we tire, we preserve our energy and capacity to continue. We are even more relieved when more and more of our neighbors step in to do this work with us.
Lastly, we want to thank the rad community groups @skatehags and @bostonmidweekskate for their donation drives that will keep our homeless neighbors warmer this winter. We thank @BostonAnarchistBookfair for having us and its attendees for bringing canned goods and $1000 in donations! Those funds covered the purchase of 3800 hand warmers. We also thank @bloww_boston for helping us raise another $1000 by hosting us at their most recent show; those funds covered the purchase of 600 hats and 750 pairs of gloves! We have more chances to donate coming up – tomorrow at @night_cap_cafe and Friday at @absolutedisruption organizers will be collecting canned goods!
#WarmUpBoston #ServeThePeople #MutualAid #SolidarityNotCharity
Hmmm, I wonder if there’s a lesson here for Democrats. 🤔
“Though the results for workers are a mixed bag, it’s clear that Americans care deeply about the economy and their material conditions and that populist proposals that better people’s working lives can win, even in red states.”
#Politics #USPolitics #Election2024 #Economics #WorkingClassSupport #ProgressivePolitics #ServeThePeople
From: @newrepublic
https://www.threads.net/@newrepublic/post/DCCsRAaoReg
[Original post from 10/10] [All tagged accounts on Instagram] Last weekend on our mobile route we gave out sandwiches, waters, snacks, toiletries, harm reduction supplies, and tons of socks courtesy of @ffcof2020 and @redsgoodvibes. Since it’s getting chilly, our hot drink carafes also made their return, and folks were thrilled to get coffee, tea, and hot chocolate!
At the encampment we gave out a hot meal of chicken and veggie teriyaki with rice, tarps, tents, snacks, canned goods, water, trash bags, clothing, and harm reduction supplies.
We also had a great time hanging out with folks from @smokeworksharmreduction last weekend. Some of our members packaged ~7000 bubble pipes and 500 safer injection kits! Stay tuned for future collaborations and volunteer days.
Fun fact: Warm Up is overseen by a league of feline harm reductionists. Thanks to their devoted efforts, every distro we give out narcan, bubble pipes, straight pipes, chore, and injection kits. Injection kits include needles, tourniquets, alcohol wipes, cookers, cottons, sterile waters, and sometimes bleach. The Warm Up kitties are determined to give people access to new drug use supplies to reduce risk of injury, infection, and infectious diseases. While they lack the opposable thumbs needed to administer Narcan, they’re determined to ensure we always distro so folks can reverse overdoses.
To learn more about harm reduction, check out the great work of folks like @harmreductionboston, @smokeworksharmreduction, @harmreductioncoalition, @materialaidandadvocacyprogram, @pro_lapsed_catholic
@nextdistro
This week we brought a hot meal of chicken, peas, and pasta, canned goods, snacks, water, clothing, blankets, and harm reduction supplies to the encampment. On our mobile distro we brought sandwiches, snacks, wound care kits, waters, socks, toiletries, hot drinks, and harm reduction supplies to folks around downtown, the Common, South Station, and Back Bay.
We build trust with community members we serve by consistently showing up week after week with the same supplies. It is essential to our work that encampment residents know exactly where their dinner will be coming that night and that they’ll each get a case of water every week. We hear frequently from folks on mobile routes that they were waiting for us to come by because they knew we’d be coming by with new needles and sandwiches.
It is always a gift to be trusted by another person, and we do not take it lightly. We’re only able to consistently show up each week because of our incredible volunteers and donors. We are endlessly grateful for our volunteers who spend their free time making sandwiches and meals, tabling at events, and of course, doing distros.
We wanted to take another moment to highlight our gratitude for our volunteers and community members who helped us expand our outreach this summer through tabling. We’re endlessly grateful for all the amazing orgs that invited us to table with them and for our volunteers who are often running from distros straight to set up the table at events. As a fully volunteer run group, we rely immensely on community support, and the Boston community has really come through for us as we continue to build solidarity with our unhoused comrades and keep on with our material aid distributions.
Tabling allows us to sell merch (thanks to Speakeasy Printshop!) and collect donations of material aid to support our community members, meet insanely cool people, and distribute harm reduction supplies and info. When we table, we often bring narcan, safer sex supplies, fentanyl test strips, and some incredible zines from Content Brakes and Next Distro. Most importantly, tabling gives us the opportunity to spread the word to our housed comrades about some of the challenges that unhoused community members have shared with us, like the violence from Boston’s camping ban, increased policing, lack of access to affordable housing, difficulties accessing services, overdoses, and more.
Thank you so much to everyone who has invited us to your events!
#WarmUpBoston #MaterialAid #MutualAid #SolidarityNotCharity #ServeThePeople
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Ms. Que Banh
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