"On Monday morning, a suicide note was shared amongst a few people in a group of folks from the advocacy community for folks with disabilities in Alberta. The man said that the switch from AISH to ADAP was the last straw for him and he was going to take his own life. He told us not to bother trying to stop him. We did anyway. I found his phone number in seconds, Zachary Weeks reached out to the RCMP with his address and phone number right away. We did what we could.

A few minutes ago we received word that the man did, in fact, succumb to suicide. I am gutted. We all are. Mostly because we're all terrified that this is going to happen again over the next few months as people become victims of this government's callousness and their own despair.

If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call 911. For urgent mental health support, Albertans can access:

Alberta Mental Health Help Line: 1-877-303-2642, available 24/7 for crisis intervention and referrals

988 Suicide Crisis Helpline: Call, text, or live chat at 9-8-8 for confidential support

Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text 686868 for youth under 20

RIP, B. You will not be forgotten."

- Mimi Williams

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #DisabilityJustice

RE: https://disabled.social/@halcionandon/116719213799485757

#saveanna

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/04/01/anna-severe-me-cfs/ - The Canary article
https://chuffed.org/project/161937-help-anna-escape - Chuffed

Anna needs accommodation urgently.

#melbourne #australia #mutualaid #disability #accommodation #accommodationneeded #disability #disabilityjustice #melbournehousing #melbourneaccommodation #domesticabuse #domesticviolence #mecfs #covidconscious #chronicillness #help #spoonie #severeme #urgent #advocacyneeded

Mutual Aid Requests Roundup 10/06/2026

https://wrzky.com/mutual-aid-requests-roundup-10-06-2026/

Every social justice movement is impacted by the Long COVID crisis

Long COVID disrupts struggles for justice, as activists and organizers with the disease are forced to suspend or change their tactics, facing a community that largely ignores COVID precautions.

#Covid19 #Justice #DisabilityJustice
https://thesicktimes.org/2026/06/09/every-social-justice-movement-is-impacted-by-the-long-covid-crisis/

Group For Compassionate and Radical Covid Conscious People

https://linktr.ee/HealthSelfDefense_

The foundations of Health Self-Defense are based on an anti-fascist and anti-capitalist stance in the fight against eugenics. It's not just about "wearing a mask" but about fighting against all forms of violence. For us, a political analysis is necessary because if we don't understand the politics of disability, we are condemned to blame the oppressed for the oppressions they suffer.

-This is a group with a compassionate and radical approach to COVID. There are already enough groups that shame people for not wearing masks and blame the oppressed for being oppressed. This is not one of those groups.

"We believe in humanity. It is not true that most people are selfish, bad, stupid, ignorant, or unwilling to learn. Most people do not know what is going on, or feel powerless to stop it, or both.

A great majority of people who have stopped taking Covid precautions have done so because they have been misled, because they are exhausted, and because we are in an information vacuum. Governments are downplaying Covid’s continued existence and evolution.

We are asking people, essentially, to distrust the choices and assessments of everyone around them, as well as what their eyes and ears are telling them. We are asking them to realize their old life is gone forever. This is a huge ask. It is the hugest possible ask. On top of that, people cannot fathom how it could be true.

We have to find a way to build an on-ramp, to essentially “onboard” people into this reality we’ve all gotten so used to. We have to remember that we are asking a lot. All of this is normal to us now, and we’ve gotten acclimated (somehow). Our mitigations reflect the truth, and they are the right things to do. But we are asking people to change their entire lives in a very serious way. It’s not just masks, at this point. It’s everything."

https://covid.tips/

#MaskUp #WearAMask #CovidRealist #CovidIsAirbone #LongCovid #YallMasking #DisabledLiberation #DisabilityJustice #HealthSelfDefense

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With mutual aid, “scammer” works like “terrorist” in a propaganda sense; not because the situations are identical in scale, but because the label functions similarly. It shuts down moral attention. It tells people, “Do not look at the conditions, do not look at the need, do not look at the system. Look at this person as a threat.”

And then people get to feel righteous while doing nothing. Worse, they get to feel righteous while humiliating someone who is already cornered.

Patriarchy harms women, then calls women cruel when they stop being gentle.

Colonial power brutalises the colonised, then calls resistance terrorism.

Capitalism and state abandonment disable people, make people desperate, then call public survival requests scams.

#politics #mutualaid #anarchism #disabilityjustice #patriarchy #feminism #colonialism #terrorism #scam