Checking In
This week, I just want to hear from you. On this week’s discussion post, let us know how you’re doing—how are you feeling? What’s going on with you? What conflicts are showing up in your life at this time of global pandemic, white supremacist uprise, political turmoil, and economic shift? How are you and your communities being impacted? What skills, tools, supports, or resources would be meaningful for you right now?
Let’s all touch base and support each other if we can.
If there is a way to cast care and strength through time and space, I’m sending that to you all today.
Love,
Luna.
We Remember Aura Rosser
November 10, 2020 is the 6th anniversary of the murder of Aura Rosser by the Ann Arbor Police Department—Aura was a mom, a sister, an artist, a cook, a friend, a daughter. The City of Ann Arbor tells a contradictory story—that AAPD shooting, tasing, and killing her in her kitchen was not the cause of her death, but a “tragic” lack of mental health and substance use support were to blame. And yet, the City has grown the police budget $1 million per year since her death ($30mil alotted for 2021), without dedicated expansion of mental health and substance use services. Today is her vigil. Aura Rosser Lives: Abolition Now.
Opportunities to Learn + Act
Support farmworkers in my home state of Michigan in accessing the internet: donate or share this fundraiser by Solidarity with Farmworkers.
Read: Austin McCoy’s latest, No Matter Who Wins this Election We Still Have to Defeat Trumpism
If you’ve been struggling with being well throughout the pandemic, check out this episode on Whole Family Wellness from All My Relations Podcast, featuring Chelsey and Thosh, who also have a fantastic podcast: Well for Culture
Ideas for organizing without gathering in person & take meaningful action without spreading COVID: virtual event skill shares; mass letter writing and postcard campaigns; banner creation and banner drop; waging a cultural disobedience campaign; mass political art, music, and writing campaigns (post outside or online); holding virtual discussion or support groups; reclaiming / re-signing public spaces; video skits; motorcades and caravans; social boycotts; economic boycotts; withholding rent and other resources; work stoppages and slowdowns; coordinated disobedience of laws or regulations; phone and e-mail zaps to harmful institutions; designing/developing alternative systems or visions and sharing those—the number of physically distanced political strategies is endless, we can use our creativity to slow the spread!