via The Highlander Research and Education Center:
We know the climate crisis is here, and the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy works on the ground in the Gulf South year-round to build transformative justice with Gulf South communities of color on the frontline of climate change. To move resources quickly to the ground, give today to their community-controlled fund for rapid response to storm recovery: https://bit.ly/StormReliefFund.
If you have supplies, donations, or contributions to provide for those in need, please contact Anthony Giancatarino at anthony@gcclp.org.
Our friends at Project South are also working with Atlanta organizers to coordinate Solidarity Housing to folks evacuating to their city.
Gulf folks seeking Atlanta housing: bit.ly/IdaHousingRequest
Atlanta hosts: bit.ly/IdaSolidarityHousing
For more information: atlhurricanesolidarityhousing@gmail.com
We'll continue to share rapid response and mutual aid information as it comes. To share information we can amplify or respond to, please email elizabeth@highlandercenter.org.
via Mwende “Freequency” Katwiwa: Ida Update - me and my green children are all safe n sound in New Orleans (though the city is without power) • some of the young folks Im in community with are in need of financial support as the navigate ongoing evacuation or staying during the uncertainty of after Ida - if you’d like to support, the best way to do so is to send funds I can redirect towards them so I can be a little less worried • Venmo @mwende-katwiwa CashApp $mkatwiwa PayPal: www.PayPal.me/FreeQuency • otherwise plz donate to any of the other mutual aid efforts (I’d post them but my network is spotty and I can’t reload the flyers ☹️)
via Gaynell Brady of Our Mammys: Just checking in to let you all know my family and I are okay. We did have some property damage, but grateful to be alive.
I know it’s going to take a few days of road clearing before I am allowed to return to New Orleans. Continue to keep us all in your thoughts and prayers.
For the folks that have asked me about financial support, please send it via PayPal (ourmammys@gmail.com) or CashApp $ourmammys
#hurricaneida#ourmammys#genealogy#edwardianfashion#blackreenactor #
Cash is the biggest need of all. Thread of mutual aid folks and individuals to spread cash to.
House of Tulip (a sanctuary for trans and gender expansive New Orleans-based folks) and other great orgs doing mutual aid and needing support are on this list compiled by Scalawag:
Housing in Atlanta:
Southern Organizing Academy is trying to direct support to those impacted.
via @prisonculture: An organizer friend reached out to me and they need some support. Southern Organizing Academy currently has a waitlist of over 50 people who need direct financial support to survive the impacts of the hurricane, and the asks are continuing to come in.
Donate here: https://www.southernorganizer.org/donate
Local Drops below…
North Carolina
MA, PA, NC, CO, FL, TX:
Will share more as it comes….
love,
jmj