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"when the looting starts, the shooting starts"

alright this isn’t much but some resources yall can be financially supporting to try and make sure our vulnerable community members in DC are as safe as possible. i live several hours from DC, so i’m not personally familiar with all of these orgs, if you have corrections or additions please let me know. <3 stay safe yall.

DC BLM twitter donate

DC’s divided up into wards, here’s some mutual aid funds for each ward. DC Mutual Aid Network Instagram

Ward 1: patreon  venmo @Ward1-DCMutualAid  cashapp: $Ward1MutualAid twitter Ward 2:  donate (both monthly support and one-time donations) twitter

Ward 3: donate  (both monthly support and one-time donations)

Ward 4: donate  (both recurring support and one-time donations) twitter

Ward 5:  donate  (both monthly support and one-time donations) venmo: @ward5mutualaid cashapp: $w5mutualaid

Ward 6: i can’t find any donation links for ward, so if you have any let me know. hotline number is: 202-683-9962 hotline email: [email protected]

Wards 7 and 8: no donation links again, but here’s a sign up link to volunteer in-person if you live in the area hotline number is: 202-630-0336 hotline email: [email protected]

DC Bread for the City (from what i can see, mostly fighting food insecurity, but offers a variety of social services and links to other local mutual aid groups) resource list, including ward-specific places to donate donate to Bread for the City

DC Fridge Collective: $dcfridgecollective 

Protest After Care Fund (support Black activists and organizers across the country) patreon website (other donation links like venmo and paypal there)

This isn’t based in DC, but i currently live in Richmond, which has been another big hotspot for white supremacist violence in the past. This group of protestors met up in Richmond yesterday prior to their storming of the Capital, so if you’re so inclined you can donate to our local mutual aid group.

Richmond MAD Fund website venmo:  @MutualAidDisasterRelief paypal:  [email protected] patreon

But when Trump supporters STORM THE CAPITOL the police stand by, they try to push back but barely. No state troopers, no militaristic police. Just domestic terrorism being allowed

And that really hit me, especially because I’m an acts-of-service kind of person and tea is one of my go-to ways to show people that I’m thinking about them, care about them, and hope their day could be a little better. So maybe when I make tea for myself, I’m saying that to myself, too, that I’m thinking of my own needs, caring for myself, and trying to make my day a little better. 

those dang kids