Some election related info. Part 1, Election Day:
Tools to report problems at the polls, track wait times, get food to people. We’ve compiled them here:
https://civictech.guide/election2020/ but this site isn’t easy to navigate, yet.
In addition to all the “find your polling place” sites I’m sure you’ve already seen, like vote.org, here are Election Day tools:
https://dfwmv.org/ Don’t F&*K with my Vote
Ride Share to the Polls (largely TX and NC) https://rideshare2vote.net/ - also Lyft is offering discounted rides
Food to the polls: Pizza to the Polls and Chefs for the Polls
Voting Problems: See Say 2020 (https://seesay2020.com/_ look at the map! The only downside to this site is that they not enough people know about it.
Center for New Data is monitoring wait times at polls based on satellite imagery: https://www.newdata.org/observingdemocracy
HOWEVER, there is a lag of 3-4 hours on the data, so it’s unclear how useful this is going to be on election day - or it might be more useful for research afterwards.
Election Protection Hotlines - 1-866 Our Vote and the Biden campaign has a hotline, too. They aren’t great, aren’t mapping problems are helping if something really egregious is going on, mainly answering questions like where is my poll.
Election Night Results: Real time mapping of results and clarity on what hasn’t been counted: https://2020.dataforprogress.org/
Part 2, Post Election:
Protect the results: https://protecttheresults.com/
Hold the Line is hosting trainings and helping to organize events/actions post-election: https://holdthelineguide.com/
Choose Democracy: https://choosedemocracy.us/trainings/#.X5BB31l7nUI
Tools to report problems at the polls, track wait times, get food to people. We’ve compiled them here:
https://civictech.guide/election2020/ but this site isn’t easy to navigate, yet.
In addition to all the “find your polling place” sites I’m sure you’ve already seen, like vote.org, here are Election Day tools:
https://dfwmv.org/ Don’t F&*K with my Vote
Ride Share to the Polls (largely TX and NC) https://rideshare2vote.net/ - also Lyft is offering discounted rides
Food to the polls: Pizza to the Polls and Chefs for the Polls
Voting Problems: See Say 2020 (https://seesay2020.com/_ look at the map! The only downside to this site is that they not enough people know about it.
Center for New Data is monitoring wait times at polls based on satellite imagery: https://www.newdata.org/observingdemocracy
HOWEVER, there is a lag of 3-4 hours on the data, so it’s unclear how useful this is going to be on election day - or it might be more useful for research afterwards.
Election Protection Hotlines - 1-866 Our Vote and the Biden campaign has a hotline, too. They aren’t great, aren’t mapping problems are helping if something really egregious is going on, mainly answering questions like where is my poll.
Election Night Results: Real time mapping of results and clarity on what hasn’t been counted: https://2020.dataforprogress.org/
Part 2, Post Election:
Protect the results: https://protecttheresults.com/
Hold the Line is hosting trainings and helping to organize events/actions post-election: https://holdthelineguide.com/
Choose Democracy: https://choosedemocracy.us/trainings/#.X5BB31l7nUI
Civic Tech Field Guide
🇺🇸 2020 Election Tech Handbook 🗳️
Visit the post for more.
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Please boost this: https://twitter.com/pam_palmater/status/1318979705308143620?s=21
Twitter
Pam Palmater
Calling all buyers, restaurants, native businesses - anyone who can buy the lobster from Mi'kmaw so that the racist, violent, non-native fishermen are not successful in starving Mi'kmaq out of our own fishery on our own lands by intimidating local buyers…
Forwarded from Pantopia Reading Nook 📰🚩
Mutual aid is a survival technique based on collectivism. [...] There are myriad examples of mutual aid among humans in the modern world: abortion funds, bail funds, grassroots legal and eviction defense, disaster response, and food distribution, among others. But mutual aid can easily be co-opted by the state or nonprofit organizations, turning a potentially power-building social action into another fixture of the neoliberal state.
Another classic example of the state co-opting a powerful mutual aid project is the USDA’s School Breakfast Program, a means-tested program that offers free or reduced-price breakfast for qualifying children in schools that choose to participate. The USDA began experimenting with a free breakfast program in the mid-1960s, but expanded in earnest in the 1970s. What changed? The rapid spread of the Black Panthers Free Breakfast for School Children program across the United States. [...] The Panthers sought donations from local businesses, and members served the breakfast, offering a communal experience.
Some of the clearest examples of successful mutual aid in American history originate in the antebellum and Jim Crow eras. W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1907 work Economic Cooperation Among Negro Americans details the structures in which Black Americans collectively strugged for survival. From the Black church as site of planning slave insurrections to the Underground Railroad, people without institutional power cooperated to attempt to survive colossal violence. [...] Free people of color also organized Black mutual aid societies and benevolent associations in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
How is mutual aid different from charity?
Mutual aid projects often spell out that their work is “solidarity, not charity.” In both cases, people mobilize to provide aid to others; the difference lies in whether peers autonomously share resources or whether individuals interact in a hierarchical structure where elites get to decide who is deserving of help.
How can mutual aid be effective without a strong decision-making structure?
Mutual aid’s greatest strategic strength is its capacity to empower people. Mutual aid projects can offer a chance for ordinary people to “get involved” for the first time. Regular people act, and not just act, but make decisions about how best to help.
Disaster relief provides a good example of how mutual aid can sometimes be more effective without strongly centralized decision-making.
How can mutual aid build political power?
Mutual aid can be very effective when people work independently and without a centralized decision-making structure, but that doesn’t mean mutual aid can’t fit into a structured campaign. [...] There’s no real contradiction between autonomy and structure—if planned carefully and thoughtfully, they can reinforce each other.
What can mutual aid do? What can’t it do?
Mutual aid can help people survive. As we face a global pandemic, alarming income inequality, mass unemployment, and escalating and unpredictable climate catastrophes, working toward collective survival could be a full-time job. [..] It makes sense for organizations—and most particularly, organizations which explicitly seek to build power—to weigh mutual aid projects against capacity concerns.
currentaffairs.org/2020/10/what-is-mutual-aid-and-how-can-it-build-power/
Another classic example of the state co-opting a powerful mutual aid project is the USDA’s School Breakfast Program, a means-tested program that offers free or reduced-price breakfast for qualifying children in schools that choose to participate. The USDA began experimenting with a free breakfast program in the mid-1960s, but expanded in earnest in the 1970s. What changed? The rapid spread of the Black Panthers Free Breakfast for School Children program across the United States. [...] The Panthers sought donations from local businesses, and members served the breakfast, offering a communal experience.
Some of the clearest examples of successful mutual aid in American history originate in the antebellum and Jim Crow eras. W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1907 work Economic Cooperation Among Negro Americans details the structures in which Black Americans collectively strugged for survival. From the Black church as site of planning slave insurrections to the Underground Railroad, people without institutional power cooperated to attempt to survive colossal violence. [...] Free people of color also organized Black mutual aid societies and benevolent associations in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
How is mutual aid different from charity?
Mutual aid projects often spell out that their work is “solidarity, not charity.” In both cases, people mobilize to provide aid to others; the difference lies in whether peers autonomously share resources or whether individuals interact in a hierarchical structure where elites get to decide who is deserving of help.
How can mutual aid be effective without a strong decision-making structure?
Mutual aid’s greatest strategic strength is its capacity to empower people. Mutual aid projects can offer a chance for ordinary people to “get involved” for the first time. Regular people act, and not just act, but make decisions about how best to help.
Disaster relief provides a good example of how mutual aid can sometimes be more effective without strongly centralized decision-making.
How can mutual aid build political power?
Mutual aid can be very effective when people work independently and without a centralized decision-making structure, but that doesn’t mean mutual aid can’t fit into a structured campaign. [...] There’s no real contradiction between autonomy and structure—if planned carefully and thoughtfully, they can reinforce each other.
What can mutual aid do? What can’t it do?
Mutual aid can help people survive. As we face a global pandemic, alarming income inequality, mass unemployment, and escalating and unpredictable climate catastrophes, working toward collective survival could be a full-time job. [..] It makes sense for organizations—and most particularly, organizations which explicitly seek to build power—to weigh mutual aid projects against capacity concerns.
currentaffairs.org/2020/10/what-is-mutual-aid-and-how-can-it-build-power/
Current Affairs
What Is Mutual Aid (And How Can It Build Power)
From the New Orleans DSA brake light clinic to benevolent associations in the Jim Crow South to a disaster relief supply “heist” in Puerto Rico, Cate Root explains mutual aid and its relationship with power.
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From NYC To The World: A Call For A People’s State Of Emergency
https://itsgoingdown.org/from-nyc-to-the-world-a-call-for-a-peoples-state-of-emergency/
https://itsgoingdown.org/from-nyc-to-the-world-a-call-for-a-peoples-state-of-emergency/
It's Going Down
From NYC to the World: A Call for a People’s State of Emergency
Call for community mobilizations in the face of the upcoming 2020 election. This is an emergency. It’s an emergency many of us have been living for a long time: from here in New York City, capital...