Thirty Days of Prompts and Opportunities for Solidarity: Week Three
Welcome to the Shitshow, part 852, Trump 2.0, Climate Collapse, Chapter 39.
Regardless of who is in office, solidarity, mutual aid and community are what keep us safe. I’ve put together these daily prompts and opportunities for solidarity (i.e. folks doing work that you can support if you are able/ feel so inclined), as a way to connect with others, reflect on where and how you can plug in, and to keep us all thinking about liberation. The prompts are meant for writing (alone or with others), conversation starters, ideas for art projects or actions or whatever you’d like! In my workshops and classes, I generally set a timer for 10 minutes, folks write, then everyone takes turns reading aloud. But there are no rules here in this anarchist space…Collect them all, write alone in your room while listening to Dead Prez, or host a gathering/writing workshop! Write songs and poetry! Embroider the words onto a pillow for your lover! Build community! Host a fundraiser for one or more networks mentioned! Host a potluck, Eat the rich! xo
Prompt, Day 15: How are you feeling about the world right now? Where do you feel it in your body?
Opportunity for Solidarity: Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer movement that recovers food that would otherwise be discarded, and shares free vegan and vegetarian meals with the hungry in over 1,000 cities in 65 countries in protest to war, poverty, and destruction of the environment.
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Prompt, Day 16: Crisis & Opportunity: who/what helps you see both?
Opportunity for Solidarity: Project Mayday is a West Virginia based drug-user and peer led collective that operates within a harm reduction framework and participates in community-based mutual aid to ensure the collective well-being of their neighbors. Project Mayday’s mission is to center the health and well-being of folks who use drugs and those experiencing homelessness, especially in Appalachia.
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Prompt, Day 17: What are your biggest fears in this moment on our planet? Consider writing them down, burning them or sharing with someone you trust.
Opportunity for Solidarity: Decolonize Philly brings community members together to save the earth and community from injustices.
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Prompt, Day 18: Burn bridges or build bridges?
Opportunity for Solidarity: Through community education, narrative shift, and litigation, Emancipate NC supports North Carolina’s people as they free themselves from mass incarceration and structural racism.
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Prompt, Day 19: Do you think people in your life feel comfortable calling you out/in if you do something harmful or problematic? Why or why not?
Opportunity for Solidarity: The Pasadena Community Job Center connects small businesses and homeowners with skilled day laborers for a variety of services, ensuring fair wages and good working conditions. They've been a hub for mutual aid during/after the Eaton Fire.
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Prompt, Day 20: OK but really... how the fuck do we get through this?
Opportunity for Solidarity: Immigrant Solidarity DuPage's mission is to educate, and mobilize DuPage County, Illionois around the rights and collective struggles of the Latino community.
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Prompt, Day 21: What good things did you experience or witness this week?
Opportunity for Solidarity: The Women’s Prison Book Project (WPBP) has provided women, trans, and gender expansive people in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics from law and education (dictionaries, GED, etc.) to fiction, politics, history, and health. We are an all-volunteer, grassroots organization.
P.S. Here are a couple more songs for you. xoxo
Bay Area classic here:
I heard this described as anti-CEO folk punk and I'm into it:
