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⚠️ EXTREMELY URGENT!! octo is now in debt from not meeting the last 2 months goals. she's barely hanging onto life, she can't afford to eat! please help!

$987/~2441 DUE MARCH 31

octo is a trans, plural recent graduate making plans to move out of her abusive parents' house. she did really well in school but she is struggling with severe anxiety & starvation from the #abuse & lack of funds.

- ko-fi.com/queeroctopuss/goal?g
- donate.stripe.com/14k6p1bMg32Q

⭐ you can get handmade art, a short story collection or an email with file storage space for donating to her here:
- writing.exchange/@riveraerica/
- terror.black/@sayyid_qishta/11
- flipping.rocks/@inherentlee/11
- weirder.earth/@june/1138898143
- mismo.jagtalon.net/@jag/status

@mutualaid @blackfedi #mutualAid #MutualAidRequest #BlackTransMutualAid #transMutualAid #transCrowdfund #trans #queer #gameDev #student #Fundraiser #nonBinary #BlackMutualAid #transgender #gay #tarot #LGBTQIA #plural #actuallyAutistic #bills #LGBTQ #poverty #mentalHealth #handmade #pets #cats #catsOfMastodon #queerMutualAid #QueerCrowdfund

It is really really great to see that #NorthernIreland is the #happiest part of the #UK according to a #survey. This is amazing given what that part of the #UK has been through over the years, from #violence, extreme #poverty and somewhat useless politicians. My own experience of visiting aged 4 was markedly different to back in 2018 when I found #Belfast to be very friendly and a great place to visit! Aged 4 I was aware of the fear, in later life I was aware of how great people make a place!

They'll lose the next election.
People will be turned off from voting because "they're all the same"
Fascism will win over Centrism, just like it did in the US.
They know this in Labour, but they don't care, they're in it for themselves, not the Nation.
Those Whatsapps conversations told us all we need to know about these Politicians

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial tooBy Frances Ryan

Our Executive Director Jen Fischer met up with Colin K. Gray, director of Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality. It's always a pleasure to catch up about the amazing work that Colin's doing! They discussed how housing equity is an important, timely & urgent issue. We warmly recommend Unzipped to educate your learning community about homelessness causes & solutions. Get our free Unzipped learning guide now. 1/n

journeysinfilm.org/product/unz

#Homelessness #Poverty #Education @education

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When ever these British Establishment creeps start pontificating on the 'moral case' for harming people I always think of some British Empire drone, lecturing some dominated population about the moral case for letting them starve while all their food is shipped away for profit

Shit like this...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline

en.wikipedia.orgTimeline of major famines in India during British rule - Wikipedia

Immoral Starmer wants us little people to suffer so his rich friends can profit.

If he's going to for some 'moral high ground' he is more deluded than we thought.

"It's morally right to make the Poor suffer and let the Rich off their Taxes, I can bend the meanings of words like JD Vance, I'm a good person"

Today in Labor History March 19, 1935: Harlem Uprising occurred, during the Great Depression, after rumors circulated that a black Puerto Rican teenage shoplifter was beaten by employees at an S. H. Kress "five and dime" store, and then killed by the police. Protests were quickly organized by the Young Liberators and the Young Communist League, which were promptly declared illegal by the police. Participants smashed windows of the store and began looting. The protest and looting spread, causing $200 million in damages. Police arrested 125 people and killed 3. Mayor LaGuardia set up a multi-racial Commission to investigate the causes of the riot, headed by African-American sociologist E. Franklin Frazier and with members including labor leader A. Philip Randolph. The identified "injustices of discrimination in employment, the aggressions of the police, and the racial segregation" as conditions which led to the outbreak of rioting, and congratulated the Communist organizations as deserving "more credit than any other element in Harlem for preventing a physical conflict between whites and blacks".

Social mobility is getting worse, leading to extremes of inequality and a disconnected, dysfunctional elite. So what can we do to create a more level playing field? Lee Elliot Major explores how middle-class privilege is increasingly ingrained by our education system, arguing that radical reforms are needed to tackle a massive waste of talent.
#Education
#poverty
#inequality

ted.com/talks/lee_elliot_major