With the passing of this wealth transfer, debt, and death bill, here are several moves you can make in the immediate, mid, and long term if you have spaciousness.
Look into stocking up community pantries and fridges in your area. And if they do not yet exist, help create spaces for them together with your neighbors.
Support local food kitchens.
Support local clinics, community health centers, and rural health services.
Make your health checkup appointments sooner than later.
Donate to, support, and organize with community-based disability justice, immigrant, and low-income groups.
Petition employers you work with, and organizations of which you are a part,
for healthcare coverage for everyone. Do this not only at your office, but also at organizations with which you are involved. Check if you qualify for a group, cooperative, or shared health plan.
If you’re able, and it is applicable, join a union, many of which have healthcare coverage and labor protections for their members. If there isn’t one for you to join, start one.
We should all know our neighbors, their faces, names, and more. This includes the businesses in our area. Get to know the people in your area more intimately if you do not already have relationships with them. Get to know the vendors, laborers, elders, disabled, and unhoused folks. When you get to know people, you learn what they need, and it helps you support them when they need it. It also helps them support you.
Fight and push back against surveillance culture at every turn, border, corner, every, street, shop, and house. Check out this website that I will keep updated on what to watch out for in the surveillance realm.
And do not forget that the entire United States is essentially a militarized zone. This means we need to strengthen our community care systems, from rapid response, stopping abductions, phone trees, triage care, and exchanging food and supplies.
Your neighborhood, your people, your friend group can become like a union itself, and fight collectively for group-based protections, food, supplies, and health coverage and services.
Community care. Community care. This has always been the way, but especially now too.
Organize your neighborhood, your people, and your friend groups to become the community care that we need.
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