Month: October 2018

captain-snark:

ohdionne:

So Minnesotans showed the fuck up tonight (like we do) – thousands in the street protesting tr*mp’s latest executive disorders. And guess what happened? The old proverb “What if an emergency vehicle needs to get where it’s going” came to life, and the sea went silent and parted to allow it through (swiftly…literally the truck was going about as fast as, if not faster than, it would have been if there had been cars it needed to go around).

Please share this. This was a rare occurrence where an emergency vehicle needed to go through the route of a protest, when usually they have predetermined alternative routes, and it went completely fine. Also for the love of god, have more respect for firefighters/EMTs…they know how to do their jobs. They’re ready for anything, including working around protests.

So folks can stop using that tired old argument now (not that it was ever backed up by sources anyway).

It’s almost as though these protesters who are protesting for human rights are decent human people.

smalltownsustainable:

passionforpasta:

Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank, shares a sustainability pro-tip in honor of Earth Day. Instead of wasting leftover pasta water by pouring it down the sink, you can save it, let it cool and use it to water your plants. The starchy H2O will give them a beneficial nutrient boost and help them grow. Just be sure to avoid using cooking water that has been salted or seasoned.

This also applies to leftover water from boiling spinach, potatoes, and hardboiled eggs, according to Reader’s Digest.

lostindaydreams-gemz:

PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!!

*PLEASE READ/SIGNAL BOOST*

Thursday, October 25th  Hi everyone, I’m Gemma and I’m so sorry to ask this again so soon from my (please help me avoid eviction post) as I still desperately need help.

As many of you may know, I’ve been struggling these past few months, literally since the new year in January, because I’ve had my welfare benefits (Universal Credit and Housing Benefit) revoked under the UK’s controversial changes to how benefits are assessed and assigned and due to my mental illnesses, I am unable to find work despite my many applications. And if anyone has ever had their benefits sanctioned or capped, then you’ll understand how much of a struggle and death sentence it is.    

And at the moment my U.C benefit is under a “capped- sanction” and the £185 that I received today went towards paying off some of my utilities, tax and other bills, leaving me with nothing to help pay my electricity & heating or get groceries for this month. The photo above is how much I have until November 25th and I know that I have asked this a lot these past few months and all the help I have previously received has literally helped me from spiralling into more debt and helped me to eat and stay warm so far and I absolutely hate to ask for more help but I have no one else to turn to and government aid/food banks are unable to offer me anymore assistance.

If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life and, sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody has to donate if they can’t or don’t want to, I know we’re all struggling. Thank you for your help 💖

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apersnicketylemon:

Reproductive injustice is more than just abortion access.

-It’s the treatment of pregnant prisoners
-It’s the forced sterilization of women of colour and getting the paperwork signed by sneaking the paperwork into other forms while the person is in labour and medicated from that
-It’s the inability for white women to get sterilized at all when they ask repeatedly, even when it will kill them if they do not, even if they’re already sterile and the procedure would only remove pain, not the ability to give birth as a result
-It’s the inaccessibility to healthcare for low-income families
-It’s the inaccessibility to birth control for low-income people
-It’s the inaccessibility to comprehensive sex-ed
-It’s the likelihood that a woc will not receive pain medication of any kind while giving birth, or will receive it later in the delivery process than a white person
-It’s the doctor after doctor who will ignore what the pregnant person wants for their own care during the labour process, even in cases where the doctor decides something that is not medically necessary (No, not all c-sections are medically necessary, neither are all episiotomies)
-It’s the huge number of people who suffer from post birt trauma, who are treated so poorly by their doctors that they suffer actual PTSD symptoms from giving birth.

All of these are a part of reproductive injustice. They’re all real issues real people face daily. And they need to change.