This morning I learned the Soup Kitchen in my #nyc neighborhood was $50k in the hole bc of fed grant cancellations
By midday I learned the entire neighborhood was throwing a fundraising party to feed mouthes uptown
This evening 100s of neighbors danced to Caribbean music & raised ❤️❤️&💰💰
@cfmccarthy
Yes - there used to be a Mother Cabrini high school in the neighborhood. Catholic Church downsizing sold that to a charter school about a decade ago. But that onsite shrine persists in the community. Other parishes in the neighborhood maintain the mission.
I’m not totally sure the relationships between this group and the shrine, but they are all dedicated to the mission of helping the poor.
Btw: it may not be obvious in the pic, but Everyone from the neighborhood helped. Even folks of other religions and allies you wouldn’t have expected to be fundraising a soup kitchen in a Church.
We are a united community.
I will organize my neighbors to declare these deductions.
I expect my tax dollars to keep people from starving.
This is the kind of community mutual aid that infuriates the six dynasties funding Project 2025.
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Seid, & Uihlein spend millions trying to extinguish the part of the American spirit that does this kind of thing.
America used to be the kind of nation that sent 20% of its grain harvest to places to stop famines.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/business/how-an-american-with-a-knack-for-math-saved-india-from-famine/articleshow/47367814.cms
Now it is a nation hijacked by the fossil fuel industry to cause...
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... 1 billion famine deaths by 2050 & 1.2 billion climate refugees.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-big-oil-1-billion
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-climate-changing-human-billion-deaths-century.html
Or does this...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/us-israel-funding-gaza-palestine-deaths-october-100000-17-billion/
An ethic perverted in its course, to become something unrecognizable.
https://medium.com/@mark4nier/the-perversion-of-christianity-7d0b3d6d3c95
My community is very close - perhaps because the monetizing rent and what not that drive high community turn over hit us pretty recently. Folks here have lived uptown for years if not decades (rare in manhattan).
These deep personal connections mean that we step up for each other.
Of course we aren’t billionaires- tax bills aren’t coming down to bankroll these personal passion events so it takes everybody chipping in not just the few.
But folks will do all in their power to help out each other.
I think we can do it. It won’t be easy- but I think we can.
@atthenius humans are inherently community driven!
The capitalists privatize and restrict community because they know we are so powerful together.
https://www.rootschangemedia.com/digital-silos-isolation-capitalism/
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