Monday's things: safety, gathering, Alabama health care
Mark your calendar
Just the messenger! These are reruns in case you missed them last week.
- Thursday, 5/1 and throughout this week! ➡️ May Day National Day of Action
- Thursday, 5/15 ➡️ Calling in Conversations: You Reap What You Sow (or FAFO!) from Loretta J. Ross (On Zoom, $5+). "Decisions were made, ballots were cast, and now reality is setting in."
- Tuesday, 5/27 ➡️ Media Safety Training from The Op-Ed Project (Online, $5+). "Online harassment and doxxing are rising in this new political era, along with other serious risks and consequences of speaking up (to employment, immigration status, and more). We’ve asked media safety trainer and crisis reporting expert Judith Matloff to lead a session on how to insulate and protect yourself."
Mark others' calendars!
Do you have some revved up energy on this Monday on Planet Earth and feel like organizing?! Good for you.
If you feel disconnected from your body, you could ➡️ Recruit 4 or more friends to get the group rate for Why Feel? Healing Our Lineages and Transforming Our Communities, a new self-guided workshop from The Embodiment Institute. The standard price point is "$150, with scholarships and group discounts available too. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Now is an excellent time to organize a practice pod and start moving towards purposeful action together."
If your heart breaks for kids, you could team up with a friend and offer...
- Story time for preschoolers/early elementary age ➡️ Read We Are the Builders! and use the free conversation guide and coloring sheets!
- For slightly older youth ➡️ A "communities of care" gathering using a few pages from the Queenie's Crew Activity Book (maybe the pod mapping sheet on p. 5, or pp. 16-17 for a Pride Month picnic?) via Interrupting Criminalization.
- For someone who wants to go to a May Day event because but can't take their kids along ➡️ Childcare!
Mutual aid / re$ource sharing opportunities
- A friend is hosting a party for their new baby. In lieu of material gifts, they invited us to contribute to Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
- The facilitator application has closed, but anyone can donate to help cover the costs of Interrupting Criminalization's "Communiversity" coming to Brooklyn this fall.
- If you're struck by this post (below), you can donate to help this West Alabama clinic – which now offers free maternal, repro health, and trans care – keep their doors open.
