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Short of going there as a medic or for humanitarian aid, the most powerful thing we can do to help is to organize ourselves in our local communities to better prepare ourselves for resistance and build up grassroots movements to demand our governments stop assisting in the genocide.
What that actually looks like:
Suggestions:
If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win, and that would be the best way available to us to help the Palestinians being genocided right now, as well as speaking out about what is happening.
Hi, the link in point 1. finding those local communities is just on the verge of being helpful to me. If non-profits are not ideal, what sort of group SHOULD we look for? My main issue locally is food, especially for students. There are food pantries and churches around, and I already help out at a few places close to distribution.
Just to be sure; when you click that link, does it take you to a guide on how to find like minded people, or only a comment below the guide that says nonprofits are sellouts? It seems to bring me to the guide, but that's only a sample size of one.
I ask since food pantries and churches are some of the places it recommends looking, among others.
If you have a Food Not Bombs chapter near you, that'd be a good group to visit and talk to as well.
It brings me to a post that starts with
That is the link you intended I think.
Cheers for confirmation ^^
There's that comment and a good length chain below, but I boil the message down to "join non profits only until you can find the GOOD groups", but I didn't understand what the next step is supposed to be. Ask around, check the library, come at it from the service NEEDER angle, but then what?
Neither the library nor the cool garden shop slash local bookstore were able to tell me about any mutual aid or antiwar groups in the area. Food not bombs's website says there are two local groups but both entries are years old dead leads.
The ultimate goal of joining those types of groups is to find individuals that share your values who you can make connections with.
The more rural the area and sparsely populated the area, the harder it will be to find those types of existing groups, making churches, food banks, and non-profits or charities the only realistic options in the beginning.
If you live in an area where you're not able to find any existing group that deals with a particular issue in your area, the only option at that point would be to create your own group to tackle that issue, becoming the mutual aid you seek.
An example of what the latter could look like is to create a community garden or open a community fridge to help with creating food stability for your community, possibly by working with local businesses who have excess food to give away/write off, or by working with your local food banks or churches.
If you have a local DSA chapter, that can often have people interested in joining up with you in mutual aid.
Did you get any results from using a search engine to search your town/city plus the word mutual aid?