Ask your community: 'What do folks need?'
If you're in a position to share resources or organize, talk to your neighbors
Danielle Moodie, Oct. 1 episode of The Check-In:
"We need...to suspend the magical thinking...[in] Top Gun, a Few Good Men, type of moment, where the heroes come in, and...the military, and they save us...This is on us now. You know the truth. You've been faced with the truth. And I have said so many times over: Everyone is not making it to the other side of this...It gives me no ease or comfort to say that, but it's the truth...For those that have privilege and the ability, fleeing is an option. For everybody else, it's time to buckle in. It's time to be ten toes down. Folks keep saying: 'What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do?'...The government is shut down. How many people in your community are not going to be paid for the indefinite future? What does it look like to pool resources and food and start a meal train...? If you are 'economically OK' right now, and you know that there are people around you that are not, then what does it look like to start to gather your community together, your neighbors together, one by one, and say: 'What do folks need?' and begin there?" (25:38–27:22)
The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton
Working through the emotional and psychological toll of the fascist military stunt
Jared Yates Sexton
