Good things can still happen in the midst of chaos. Here’s a list of a few links I’ve found the last few days that I wanted to share. Everyone can do something. We have to keep on keeping on and remembering some GOOD THINGS happening out there in the world.

“If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” – Dolly Parton

THIS ARTICLE IS SO, SO GOOD. READ!

Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism: As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.

“When anyone can be summoned by the state to extract information, she continued, “people lose their social instincts, the ties between them weaken, everybody retires to his corner and keeps his mouth shut—which is a great boon to the authorities..If we are to have any hope of surviving the coming dark age, we need mutual aid—not just to keep people housed and fed, but to keep them connected.

What will family mutual aid look like? Communal, intergenerational housing, shared kitchens, child care shifts, leaving free time for creativity and leisure: let new forms of intimacy and interdependence supplant the patriarchal nuclear family religious fundamentalists and their elected officials have been laboring to reinvigorate for decades.

There is no substitute for the state, whose obligation is to redistribute the nation’s wealth for the greater good of the greatest number of people. But when the state is a malevolent kleptocracy, mutual aid—neighbors helping neighbors—starts to look like radical civil disobedience, less a thousand points of light than a brilliant beam shining toward a different world.”

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” —Mother Teresa

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