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What are you doing for Palestine? (discuss.online)

submitted 1 week ago by OmegaLemmy@discuss.online to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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I've felt a delayed sense of intense dread following the election of trump and watched as the Palestinian genocide only got worse

My family members care only with words, my friends are more interested in nationalism, our party is both authoritarian, pro-israel and also lying to their citizens about being Anti-Israel, and not a single major nation has done anything towards Israel that can directly affect it

I send my donations and I attend rallies, but to what end? Do they matter? People seemingly rather distance themselves than have actual progress, seemingly attempting to be at the moral high ground no matter what, even if it means ignoring a genocide, it's disgusting

I don't know what to do, am I meant to only provide a shelter to who can survive? What about the rest? I can't help but fucking shiver and its giving me a panic attack

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It brings me to a post that starts with

"Folks have asked me how to find and build community.

Here is a very pragmatic and approachable way to find the community in your local town or neighborhood."

That is the link you intended I think.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

Cheers for confirmation ^^

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

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?