Hey Michiganders (or people who want to help MI beat what's his face), I have an ask for you.
Look I can't have this mother fucker win again. Seriously.
I already voted, but there's lots and lots of MI voters who havent.
I'm going to be text banking with @482Forward to turn out the vote. We can't take any chances. Biden-Harris have to take Michigan and it's folks in metro-detroit who are gonna make it happen.
so my ask is small and simple - sign up for 1 (or more)text banking shifts at the link below! I'm asking your for 2 hours of your time! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
If you do it, DM me and tell me you did and I will send you a gift (seriously).
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Hey Yall -
Last year around this time I had a bit of a breakdown. This year is even more stressful, so I'm taking some precautions to try and prevent that from happening again. I want to share some of those things here at the very least to encourage others to prep
I am by NO means a therapist or an expert. I'm just a dude with depression and anxiety. So I'm not giving you a list of things to do, but more a list of shit that I'm doing. You should make your own list.
1) I'm increasing my therapy visits. Usually do every other week but I'm moving to weekly. Honestly, at the moment that may feel like overkill, but it's good to have that in practice before things go wrong.
You know an interesting thing I think alot about? How so much of economic justice organizing is built around the scarcity model. We talk about hating that model, but the constantly make "how come we can afford x, but not y" arguments.
I am VERY guilty here.
It's actually really hard to wrap our minds (and messaging) around the fact that we can afford both a useless billion dollar military helicopter AND healthcare for all. We can afford a ridiculous large steroid driven frat boy police force AND quality schools for all.
I'm really grateful that I spent time in an organization that taught me real difficult messy inspiring beautiful tiring exciting grassroots organizing. I wish everyone on our side had that chance.
I came out of college organizing thinking that what we all needed to do was read Marx and fanon and shit and come up with the best and most revolutionary ideas, then find a coalition of people that thought those same lefty ideas and work with them exclusively. (Slight hyperbole)
What I found out is that college gave me an unrealistic idea of what actual change and organizing is. All the systems that you had convinced yourself you had dismantled in your own politics still exist in our base, and most haven't had the luxury of exclusive thinking about it.