#non profits

[thelocalmuffin]

Hey everyone, House just passed H.R 9495 as of 11/21, which is a bill that prevents non-profits for helping with causes such as Palestine and other acts the government deems "terrorism."

The guardian explains why it's a massive problem here.

This could seriously hurt non-profits that are trying to help multiple good causes with the vague terminology they are using to give themselves power to dictate what that means.

They are trying to fast track it while everyone is panicking about the results of the election. CALL YOUR SENATORS AND SAY NO TO H.R. 9495.

If you can't call for any reason, absolutely spread the word and reblog this post.

This is extremely serious and a dangerous bill. We should do what we can to stop it.

[solarpunkhomesteadzone6a]

I am trying to flee to the Pacific Northwest, especially Oregon, because I find it the most politically and culturally safe for me and wife (We're trans and nonbinary and very opposed to capitalism and the US government and culture) short of leaving the country. She is a PhD mathematics researcher and I have no degree but great work ethic. I am reaching out to anyone and everyone I find on tumblr who seems to live in the pacific north west to get any help, connections, etc possible. That and posting thisbin the hashtags. Real people connecting with real people.

My wife will not work for the academic institutions that support Israel/the military (they all do) and neither of us will work for oil, military, or other death industries. We are hoping to live as decentralized, simply, and co friendly as possible. We are not afraid of manual labor.

We were promised family land in NY and were gonna farm/homestead off grid but seems it's not going to happen because my wife's family is too dysfunctional/abusive to keep her sister from hurting and abusing us and won't actually transfer us the land as they claimed. My wife jeopordized her math career for this and cannot get a normal academic job even if she wanted to: its privy to the academic cycle. We would not normally need help, because we are careful frugal people who plan well, but we used alot of resources coming here (NY) and have just barely enough to maybe move if we do so in the next few months.

Co ops, resident owned housing, and other hippie anarchist stuff appreciated, but we're looking at a lot of options: firefighting or entry level forestry jobs with housing, squatting in the forest, thru hiking, trying to find work with non profits or ethical groups and live in a normal house/apartment, etc. We strictly adhere to our ethics but are fairly flexible otherwise.

If there is any way you can help us, I would be forever in your debt and it would mean a lot to know we aren't truly as abandoned and hated as we feel. The world's been really really scary and it's hard to keep hope in my heart. Please help us in any way you can. I tried to commit suicide last year because of how bleak everything has gotten and it's something I'm still struggling with. I need something to live for. I don't deserve this, I'm a really good person.

[hannahhook7744]

Submit An Official Comment: Reject Trump’s attacks on diversity, immigrants, and nonprofits

The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity programs and immigrants have reached a new level with the General Services Administration i

[daloy-politsey]

From their inception, foundations focused on research and dissemination of information designed ostensibly to ameliorate social issues--in a manner, however, that did not challenge capitalism. For instance, in 1913, Colorado miners went on strike against Colorado Fuel and Iron, an enterprise of which 40 percent was owned by Rockefeller. Eventually, this strike erupted into open warfare, with the Colorado militia murdering several strikers during the Ludlow Massacre of April 20, 1914. During that same time, Jerome Greene, the Rockefeller Foundation secretary, identified research and information to quiet social and political unrest as a foundation priority. The rationale behind this strategy was that while individual workers deserved social relief, organized workers in the form of unions were a threat to society. So the Rockefeller Foundation heavily advertised its relief work for individual workers while at the same time promoting a pro-Rockefeller spin to the massacre. For instance, it sponsored speakers to claim that no massacre has happened and tried to block the publication of reports that were critical of Rockefeller. According to Frederick Gates, who helped run the Rockefeller Foundation, the "danger is not the combination of capital, it is not the Mexican situation, it is the labor monopoly; and the danger of the labor monopoly lies in its use of armed force, its organized and deliberate war on society."

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, The Revolution Will Not be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

[jangillman]

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[reading-writing-revolution]

House Fast-Tracks Bill That Would Give Trump Power to Target Nonprofits

New legislation could give Donald Trump unprecedented power to go after nonprofit organizations he disagrees with.

Democracy requires investment, engagement and energy. Bring it!

[thefloralmenace]

Awhile ago, I mentioned the value in working with local activist organizations even if you don't fully buy into their mission/philosophy because it's still a way to network with people who are activism-minded to some degree.

That point got proved to me again this week. I work with a non-profit outside my job that is currently doing a campaign on housing rights in my area. They are politically neutral and do not allow direct action as part of their activism model, the latter part of which doesn't really fit my personal style of activism. Inside my job, I've been working with a non-profit that puts on a free medical clinic in my area every two years, providing free dental fillings, glasses made on site, and vaccines.

Here's how the networking went:

I have a personal project going where I'm making lists of resources from food banks to rental assistance programs and more for different cities in the form of Linktrees. I am then nesting the Linktrees for individual cities under a master Linktree that has all the cities sorted by state. That way there's a single link that can get you to any kind of resource you might need that is available locally. It's basically the beginnings of a database in Linktree form.

The housing group I work with was looking for a way to get resources about renter's rights, housing rights, the city complaint system, etc. to local residents. They agreed to help make a resource list for their city, and we put the housing resources at the top. We got flyers printed with a QR code that sends people to that local link.

Meanwhile, at work, I offered to help the medical clinic people get the word out into the community by putting up physical flyers in addition to their social media outreach.

The people in the housing group agreed to also help get those flyers out into two cities neighboring the medical clinic site since we're also flyering for out own stuff, and people struggling with the cost of rent are probably also struggling with medical expenses.

At a meeting this week, the medical clinic people mentioned that they give out resource packets to everyone they treat at the end of the clinic (and they usually serve about 500 people). They agreed to put the housing group's flyer in that packet.

So now:

My personal project has grown.

The medical clinic people have more local pubilicity/outreach

The housing people are getting their resources directly handed to hundreds of people.

Never underestimate the power of networking in activism.