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Thursday, August 8th: Hello everyone, I’m Gemma and I am quite sure that everyone is beyond tired of seeing my posts by now, and I sincerely apologize to be asking again but I desperately need help with some bills & to get groceries.

As most of you are aware, I have been struggling financially for quite some time due to my welfare benefits (U.C & Housing Benefit) being revoked, under the UK’s controversial changes to how benefits are assessed and assigned. And due to my mental health and some unfortunate DWP mess-ups, my benefits have been on and off sanctions for over a year now. I am currently waiting for the DWP to send me for a medical assessment, which I am hoping will fix my benefits and offer me more assistance as I am unable to work due to my persistent low mood and fatigue.

However, the process and paperwork for a medical can take weeks and often months to go through (I have been waiting since January). And due to immense stress and anxiety to make ends meet, my mental health has quickly declined and is gradually getting worse. The only bright side of my situation is that the temporary sanction that was placed on my benefit, due to DWP negligence has been lifted, so I am hoping to expect payment of £128.88 at the end of August, but that is 3 weeks away. *U.C is paid monthly*

Previous donations have gone to help me pay my rent and bills. However, I still have my phone & internet bill (£78) and tax bill (£60) to pay, which have now accrued late fees, and I have next to nothing in my fridge and cupboards, so I really need to get groceries/household supplies (£100) to do me until the end of the month when I’m due my welfare payment.

If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life, and sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody is obligated in any way to donate if they can’t or don’t want to, I know we’re all struggling.

Thank you for your help 💖

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queentinqz

Rihanna at the Kadooment Day Parade in Barbados (Aug. 5, 2019)

iron-sunrise

I have recently been giving a diagnosis of Colon and Stomach Cancer. I'm in desperate need of financial help. As It stands I have to bring my medical Bills to current status. I face 6 months of Chemotherapy and have exhausted my savings paying what I can. As of July my rent is pass due. I'm r...

Emergency fundraising

Hey everybody! This is my mother, the very one who I’m trying to get enough cash to go back and help while she goes through months of Chemo. Her job quietly dropped a policy for those with critical illnesses that would have helped carry her through this process and they did it without telling their employees.Her rent for July is past due. If you can spare even a dollar, please do. I do not want my own mother facing houselessness after major surgery (they just removed most of her small intestine and a part of her stomach) and also facing chemotherapy. I’ll gladly be the homeless one before that happens. Please, above all that is holy– share, share, share. If you have a presence on other platforms I owe you my life if you share there as well. This is about to be a big fight for her health and not only do I not want to lose my mother, I don’t want financial issues and corporate fuckery to stress her out even more and compromise her recovery and her home.

catchymemes

the-headless-vulcan

Capitalism will put the bill on your grave and harass your grieving family until they pay

theludicrousrival

One of my cousins passed away unexpectedly at the age of 35, and had been paying back a loan from the bank. About two weeks after his death, my great aunt received a statement from the bank (his mail was being delivered to her house) about a late payment. She called the bank and explained the situation and the only thing a manager could say was “Well, that’s unfortunate. We can arrange so payments will resume in 30 days, that should be enough time to have already paid for the other arrangements.”

On top of the unexpected $10,000 funeral, cremation and burial bill, my aunt had to finish paying my uncle’s $5,000 loan. She’s a disabled retiree, on a fixed income, and could barely afford to pay for her insulin for diabetes. She nearly lost her home of more than 40 years. Fuck the system.

lawful-evil-novelist

She didn’t need to pay. When people die, their debts are not their family’s responsibility.

In fact, it is outright illegal to try and collect those debts from a person who didn’t cosign the loan and isn’t executing the will.

Who is responsible for paying off the debts of your deceased relatives?

Here’s a link to the detail on that one.

eudoxiav

Banks count on people not knowing that last comment so that they can still get money

niniblack

They really do.

My great-grandmother had her identity stolen before she died at the age of 93, and thousands of charges were racked up on credit cards in her name. After she passed away, they called my mother to try and collect. My mom laughed at them, and told them: “She’s dead, good luck collecting.” The credit card asked my mother, “Don’t you want to clear your grandmother’s debts? Don’t you want to clear her good name?” My mom laughed at them again. “No,” she said. “Because a 90 year old wasn’t watching porn with those credit cards, and her name is fine. Don’t give credit cards to old women likely to pass away soon. This is on you.”

Which is how I learned as a young child to always question collection agents, and to never pay off debts that aren’t your own. They often can’t even collect that money from the estate, if there is one, depending on how you write your will and what kind of account the money was kept in.

nephrastar

DO NOT EVER PAY OFF DEBTS THAT AREN’T YOUR OWN.

If a loved one of yours dies and bill collectors (credit cards, loans, etc etc) start calling you off the hook and request that you pay off their debts, tell them in no uncertain terms to go fuck themselves.

The reason being is that the moment you give them a single penny, that debt is now on YOU because you’ve now agreed to pay it off.

Do not agree to pay off their debt. Do not pass go, do not give them $200.

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

Boosting this to let people know that if any of these greedy little dog-fuckers start harassing them to pay off a relatives debt the correct thing to do is just tell them to piss off and not pay them a single thing

And that there is NOTHING they can do if you do this

iron-sunrise

I have recently been giving a diagnosis of Colon and Stomach Cancer. I'm in desperate need of financial help. As It stands I have to bring my medical Bills to current status. I face 6 months of Chemotherapy and have exhausted my savings paying what I can. As of July my rent is pass due. I'm r...

Emergency fundraising

Hey everybody! This is my mother, the very one who I’m trying to get enough cash to go back and help while she goes through months of Chemo. Her job quietly dropped a policy for those with critical illnesses that would have helped carry her through this process and they did it without telling their employees.Her rent for July is past due. If you can spare even a dollar, please do. I do not want my own mother facing houselessness after major surgery (they just removed most of her small intestine and a part of her stomach) and also facing chemotherapy. I’ll gladly be the homeless one before that happens. Please, above all that is holy– share, share, share. If you have a presence on other platforms I owe you my life if you share there as well. This is about to be a big fight for her health and not only do I not want to lose my mother, I don’t want financial issues and corporate fuckery to stress her out even more and compromise her recovery and her home.

iron-sunrise

Update from my moms

Hello Everyone, One treatment done. Chemotherapy is very hard on the body. It attacks healthy cells along with the affected cells. The side effects are so numerous, i.e. I cant eat without feeling nauseous and lightheaded, I just refuse to allow them to deter me from my path. So this morning I ate a few fresh strawberries for breakfast. The strawberries didn’t want to stay down . Twice I was very nauseous, lost my breakfast, I figured I should try a few slices of melon.

So far, so good. Breakfast done and I’m feeling quite Subhuman. I have to eat small meals 6 or 7 times a day. Most are like asking a sour stomach to accept more of what it cannot handle..But I get it down and hold on for dear life. I actually gained weight this month. 2 pounds(I m 5'7 and 151). That’s My High School Weight)

One another note.

I received a deposit from GoFundMe and I used it pay for July’s rent plus the late charges. I also made a partial payment to my oncologist and the Norton Cancer Center. I don’t know where my next meal is coming from but I still got a few dollars, a onion, some flour but LORD, No grease .

So I’m going to sit back and just watch the sky…from where my blessings come.

Anything anyone can spare is super appreciated! I’m gonna include my paypal in hopes I can order and ship some CBD oil to her as I can get it for a wicked price locally. I want her to be able to keep some food down and stay healthy

iron-sunrise

Pushing again since we havent had any donations in a week. Any help is appreciated, my mom is very poor.

lizisaroyalist-deactivated20200

If you know of someone who needs this please share it with them.

everentropy

Summary of tweet: If you are afraid to contact the authorities regarding the El Paso shooting because of your immigration status, please contact the Hope Border Institute and we will help you.

Here is the Hope Border Institute website: https://www.hopeborder.org/

And their phone number: (915) 872-8400 ext. 200

iron-sunrise

I have recently been giving a diagnosis of Colon and Stomach Cancer. I'm in desperate need of financial help. As It stands I have to bring my medical Bills to current status. I face 6 months of Chemotherapy and have exhausted my savings paying what I can. As of July my rent is pass due. I'm r...

Emergency fundraising

Hey everybody! This is my mother, the very one who I’m trying to get enough cash to go back and help while she goes through months of Chemo. Her job quietly dropped a policy for those with critical illnesses that would have helped carry her through this process and they did it without telling their employees.Her rent for July is past due. If you can spare even a dollar, please do. I do not want my own mother facing houselessness after major surgery (they just removed most of her small intestine and a part of her stomach) and also facing chemotherapy. I’ll gladly be the homeless one before that happens. Please, above all that is holy– share, share, share. If you have a presence on other platforms I owe you my life if you share there as well. This is about to be a big fight for her health and not only do I not want to lose my mother, I don’t want financial issues and corporate fuckery to stress her out even more and compromise her recovery and her home.

iron-sunrise

Update from my moms

Hello Everyone, One treatment done. Chemotherapy is very hard on the body. It attacks healthy cells along with the affected cells. The side effects are so numerous, i.e. I cant eat without feeling nauseous and lightheaded, I just refuse to allow them to deter me from my path. So this morning I ate a few fresh strawberries for breakfast. The strawberries didn’t want to stay down . Twice I was very nauseous, lost my breakfast, I figured I should try a few slices of melon.

So far, so good. Breakfast done and I’m feeling quite Subhuman. I have to eat small meals 6 or 7 times a day. Most are like asking a sour stomach to accept more of what it cannot handle..But I get it down and hold on for dear life. I actually gained weight this month. 2 pounds(I m 5'7 and 151). That’s My High School Weight)

One another note.

I received a deposit from GoFundMe and I used it pay for July’s rent plus the late charges. I also made a partial payment to my oncologist and the Norton Cancer Center. I don’t know where my next meal is coming from but I still got a few dollars, a onion, some flour but LORD, No grease .

So I’m going to sit back and just watch the sky…from where my blessings come.

Anything anyone can spare is super appreciated! I’m gonna include my paypal in hopes I can order and ship some CBD oil to her as I can get it for a wicked price locally. I want her to be able to keep some food down and stay healthy

aly-semi-archived-deactivated20

Capitalism is getting very much more dystopian very quickly

queeranarchism

It’s a matter of time before companies start their own Pod-communities and ‘strongly encourage’ workers to live there and set up rules like no alcohol and no defamation of the company in the Pods.

As nightmarish as this is (and it is), this is only new for documented white people. From seasonal archiculture workers to construction workers to sweatshops, ‘sleep where you work and live your whole life controlled by your boss and coworkers pressured to spy on you’, has been very much a thing for a looooooooong time.

This is one of many things capitalism has always done to workers and now they’re going “hhmmmm.. if I can do this to some workers, why not all of them? if I present it as a hip new way of urban living people for the ‘freelancers’ that I exploit, I might even be able to do it without the armed guards that run my sweatshops and plantations.”

yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20

I don’t really get the issue with the “sex is banned” part tho

queeranarchism

I don’t want to hyperfocus on that part because ‘live without privacy, convert your bed into a desk by day and just work work work’ is distopian enough as it is and I don’t really want to distract from a conversation about the new fuedalism to just talk about sex.

But can you not understand how that monotomous soulless life defined by work becomes even more soulless when you are not permitted to engage in (what is for most allosexuals) one of the most intimate moments of recreational joy and interpersonal connection? & how much it says about our lack of power when we live in places that control our sexual and reproductive lives?

yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20

well yeah, but it’s communal living. I mean you’re spot on with the rest but idk, a ban on sex when you share your living quarters with like two dozen other people? it doesn’t seem that deep tbh.

queeranarchism

You know, I’ve spend time in socialist and anarchist self-organized communal living spaces where lots of people shared bedrooms because they liked it and all these spaces had a place for sex. They all acknowledged that that was a thing many humans loved and valued and so they organized to make that good thing possible. Some had a spare room with a lock on the inside that couples could use, others had dorms where sex was okay and dorms where it was not so people could choose where to sleep. It is not difficult to have communal living for those that like sharing bedrooms and also organize a place for sex.

This, however, is not communal living. This is crammed, dehumanized corporate living. This is squeezing as many people as possible into a space defined by work. The inhabitants own nothing in this space and have no control over their environment, they can’t even paint the walls let along organize the space to meet their needs. In such a space, sex is made impossible on purpose:

“We built the pods facing each other so the community polices itself”

The people that made this could have organized privacy and opportunities for sex. They deliberately did not do this, they dilerabetely designed the space for minimum privacy. The purposeful banning of sex from this space is just one part, but one very obvious part, of the way these spaces are not build for humans, they are build for employees whose whole identity should be limited to their productivity.

hopesterling

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, mining communities and factory towns encouraged workers to join their ranks by offering company housing and company stores, where workers and their families wouldn’t have to worry about money, because their rent and whatever they wanted from the store would simply be deducted from their paychecks.

Didn’t take long for workers to realize they were spending over 100% of their paychecks, and would have to work the rest of their lives in soul-crushing poverty to pay the company back.

patrickat

Slavery isn’t gone, it just changed its name.

vampireadamooc

Adding to what @robstmartin has to say:

“I sold my soul to the company store” isn’t just a line in a song, it’s about Miner’s Scrip. When coal mines forced their employees to live in company housing, paid them in company credit usable only in the literal company store, and they charged astronomical rates for rent and food.

Most miners ended up in multi-generational debt because their wages were so low they could not afford the basic necessities of food, clothing and shelter and ended up owing so much to the company store their grandchildren would essentially be enslaved to the company to pay off the debt.

This becomes especially chilling when you realize Cheeto Supremo ran on a policy of “bring back coal jobs”.

terriblejoker-deactivated202202

This is just deadass feudalism 2 Electric Boogaloo

thecheshirecass-deactivated2018

Waiting for Google and Facebook to implement this crap.

iron-sunrise

“What’s wrong with an exorbitant amount of money a month to live in a serf boarding home and have zero privacy for guests, alone time and intimacy with others?” …Bruh.

worthlessstreetrat

ma’am???

I had to read that last sentence three times

“the school District was ONLY desegregated in 2017.” Just 2 years ago?!

I’m so sick of this. She better win her lawsuit.

unicorns-and-fairy-dust-deactiv

ONLY DESEGREGATED IN 2017? Did I just read that with my own two eyes?

Jesus H Christ America.

tolstoyevskywrites-deactivated2

Fun fact: Mississippi only ratified the 13th Amendment banning slavery in 2013. The amendment was adopted nationwide in 1865 after a three-fourths majority of states voted to ratify it, but Mississippi never submitted the official documentation until February 7, 2013. (All other states had already done so.) This means that Mississippi didn’t officially abolish slavery until 6 years ago.

For more Mississippi madness, check out the documentary “Prom Night in Mississippi,” about a high school that integrated in 1970 but only had its first racially integrated prom in 2008.

rosethevoid

micdotcom

This white woman’s shocking account of police brutality reveals the importance of the #BlackLivesMatter movement

Molly Suzanna shared a story on Facebook that she had never told before: when she was 19, she ran a red light while crying, then was pulled over and forcefully removed and beaten by a police officer. She explains in the letter that she believes her situation would have been even worse had she been black — and she ends the letter with an important call to action.

lanie-love09

The public needs to hear more stories like this as well.

lennybaby2

Wow. This is horrifying.

the-sarkai

Cops are drunk on power. Add any ism to that, you have a bunch of abusive, gun wielding, trained to kill, non empathetic, killers running around.

alexandra-erin

This woman got hauled out of a window, beaten, stripped, tortured, and humiliated, and she still is able to understand how white privilege saved her life.

pasifika-excellence

Today, hundreds of Native Hawaiians and supporters gathered in front of the Hawaiʻi State Capitol to oli, dance, hold signs, and peacefully protest the construction on Mauna Kea. #Maunakea #moomeheu #kukiaimauna

https://twitter.com/oha_hawaii

iron-sunrise

Definitely an urgent request, and sorry about hitting everyone with it

Mk so, coming home tomorrow and have $18 to my name. Just need supplies for my job and help eating/keeping my phone on. I have shop rent, house rent and more coming up soon and I also would like to try and come back here in July when my mother starts chemotherapy so I can help her out. My brother and cousin paid for me this time, I’d like to handle it myself next time and also be in a better place financially and have enough money to help pay for anything to help my mother.

I can do this with glass, I just need materials to do so.

Any help and boosting is appreciated!

iron-sunrise

50% there :) pls boost! I would love you forever

modern-politics111

Contact Your Representative and Tell Them To Fight Against Trump’s Camps

Additionally, if you can see if you can donate money to these organizations

Lawyersforgoodgoverment.com

fairfightbondfund.org

lgbtqfund.org

communitybondproject.org

immigrantfamilies.org

freedomforimmigrants.org

mysharona1987

wahtdahel-blog

I’m all for Black women entrepreneurs.

Here is a great article which focuses on the fact that while Black women are the fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the country, they still have a ton of obstacles holding them back from reaching their full entrepreneurial potential.

https://www.bustle.com/p/black-women-are-the-fastest-growing-group-of-entrepreneurs-but-major-systemic-obstacles-are-still-standing-in-their-way-44458

It isn’t just accurate. It’s necessary.

Important article on the history of concentration camps and why that’s what we need to call them.

‘Historian Isabel Hull argues that the German military’s predisposition toward “final solutions” was first evident in the 1904 internment and genocide of the Herero and Nama people in the German colony of South West Africa, now Namibia, in what was already called a “concentration camp.” The term itself comes from reconcentración, a Spanish policy deployed against Cubans in the 1890s, which was then reused by the British during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902.

Meanwhile, Americans offended at the use of “concentration camp” should acquaint themselves with our own history of civilian detention. As early as 1862, American forces interned Dakota women and children at Fort Snelling. George Takei tweeted this week regarding the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, “I know what concentration camps are. I was inside two of them, in America. And yes, we are operating such camps again.’

#immigration detention #concentration camps #never again is now #us immigration policy

London's remarks were a part of a seven-day proceeding that took place at the NYPD headquarters.

Everyone dies anyway. This is absurd.

#acab #ftp #police violence #extra judicial killings #eric garner #i can't breath

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