we cannot rely on the solutions that may have worked in the past, especially those that were given to us by the same system that is killing us now.

we must start thinking outside the box NOW or people will continue to die who could have lived.

https://autistics.life/@aptronym/117473908765206011

#neoliberalfascism #mutualaid #socialconnection

https://autistics.life/@aptronym/117306494109366171

#neoliberalfascism #mutualaid #communitysurvivalnetworks #socialconnection

crowdfunding survival needs is not mutual aid. it is definitively NOT. mutual aid builds interdependence. crowdfunding only continues to feed the system without posing a threat to it. and as our individual financial resources continue to dwindle, people will not make their fundraising goals. and they will be in deep trouble and they will not have the benefit of a mutual aid community to act as a safety net.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/money-received-through-crowdfunding-may-be-taxable-taxpayers-should-understand-their-obligations-and-the-benefits-of-good-recordkeeping

#mutualaid #crowdfunding #irs #taxes #recordkeeping #SolidarityNotCharity #interdependence #communitysurvivalnetworks #safetynet

Thank you for taking your time to point this out. The people I've met locally are doing some good work, including building local relationships. But you're right about the money, and I didn't even give that a thought.

what could we do with $743,000? VFP isn’t really doing much with this obscene amount of money.

nonprofits use these funds to perpetuate themselves. they cannot make meaningful progress without risking loss of their funding sources.

how much does it really cost to organize counter-recruitment efforts that really only need solid community networks to function?

counter-recruitment needs community solidarity in order to be effective and that is basically free. it also requires building networks for resisting social atomization, alienation, poverty, exclusion - any counter recruitment effort must take action to meet the needs intentionally left unmet by capitalism so as to make enlistment attractive. people enlist because they lack opportunity, belonging, purpose, hope for the future. what could we do with $743,000 that VFP has failed to accomplish for decades?

did it lead to action? did it build a community? a network of any kind?

a training call 6 months ago does nothing if it doesn’t lead to coordinated action

that is why i (a veteran) do not work with VFP. they are a resource pit.

this is not to say that the training call is useless. but VFP is notorious for wasting resources on marketing campaigns disguised as activism. your training call has to lead to a coordinated effort, a community network that shares skills and resources to challenge the status quo, otherwise it is marketing and nothing more. they do those training calls so people will give them more money and prestige without posing a legit thread to the status quo.

https://freecampsites.net/

#homelessness #camping #SurvivalPrep #communitysurvivalnetworks

I know Veterans for Peace and Military Families Speak Out are active in southern California rn. I was on a training call of people working against recruitment that was nationwide. This was probably 6 months ago.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2026/apr/15/how-to-investigate-police-misconduct-using-brady-lists-and-public-records/

#citizenjournalism #policemisconduct #policebrutality #FOIA #publicrecords

A Handbook for Media Literacy and Citizen Journalism

Martin Hirst

https://drive.proton.me/urls/1QNRE3CMJC#UTRtcXKvoMZy

#citizenjournalism #medialiteracy

https://reticulum.network/

#offgridcomms #SurvivalPrep #DisasterPreparedness #communitysurvivalnetworks

https://unsigned.io/rnode/

#offgridcomms #DisasterPreparedness #SurvivalPrep #communitysurvivalnetworks

Bucket Meshnet Node

https://drive.proton.me/urls/1ZFYE3WVSW#fia5VZONUVUj

#offgridcomms #SurvivalPrep #meshnetwork

https://blog.pmpress.org/2022/02/01/some-thoughts-on-what-can-be-done-to-withstand-the-neo-confederate-neo-fascist-conquest-of-power/

#neoliberalfascism #SurvivalPrep #communitysurvivalnetworks #SHTFsituations

Harm Reduction, Risk Mitigation, Personal Safety

[an antidote to the war on drugs]

Dominic Milton Trott

https://drive.proton.me/urls/MKP3EY0AX0#3zvQxPJbAPGz

#harmreduction #harmreductionsaveslives #warondrugs #stigma #copaganda

a homes not jails and occupy the farm occupation guide

https://drive.proton.me/urls/0TVW782YTM#W55a52zD2xLa

#Occupy #occupation #homesnotjails

a liberatory practice of harm reduction

Shira Hassan

https://drive.proton.me/urls/NY8QT3B39R#uxc2U2dT1aDj

#harmreduction #harmreductionsaveslives #druguserunions #mutualaid #communitysurvivalnetworks

The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data

Micah Lee

https://drive.proton.me/urls/F1FKP0W4BG#s3J2cxzBeIQk

#hackthecapitalists #hackthebourgeoisie #agitprop #informationwarfare

#amateurradio #HamRadio #DisasterPreparedness #offgridcomms

https://drive.proton.me/urls/E4A1J8HWKC#eQxVaOXghGve

#nonprofit #nonprofitindustrialcomplex #funding #philanthropy #professionalization #neoliberalization

if these orgs are really interested in contributing, then they will work with us - not the other way around.

we give them what we have so they can turn their backs on our neighbors and cry “but we’re underfunded” - and we are left with nothing to defend them with ourselves. there is never enough funding for these bottomless money pits, and they will ALWAYS choose to give in to the demands of their philanthropic donors. never ours, despite any individual’s “good intentions.”

The only antidote to isolation is community. Remember, we cannot do this alone and, contrary to what many of us have been taught, we all deserve to be here. Our value as human beings is intrinsic to our existence. We do not have to "earn" the right to live and be at peace, any more than a sparrow does. In the words of Marx, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
We are legion. We are diverse. We are resourceful. We will prevail.

Signed,
A Fellow Weaver
PS. Don't be afraid to punch a Nazi.”

The Leftist Loom v1.0

https://drive.proton.me/urls/TZNDT71SRR#1l5XzvI0Ub0s

#communitybuilding #CommunitySurvivalNetwork #mutualaid

histories and reflections on community armed self-defense

scott crow

https://drive.proton.me/urls/53SHHZEXY8#kCpocSctE77q

#communityselfdefense #ArmTheProletariat #armedselfdefense