Covid-era benefits are coming to an end. For those receiving SNAP benefits for food assistance, this means at least $95 less per month. VICE News visits one food pantry in Kentucky that has seen mile long lines for donations since benefits were cut.
Fuck Joe Brandon.
I wish there were a way to pool resources and not get arrested under some obscure food sanitation law meant to prevent mutual aid in times like these. I live really rural so, there's not too many options out here, and I'm not too employed right now, but I know how to cook in bulk.
There most likely is. The issue in that regards is that often leftist orgs just kinda wing it and don't look into the law, and that is used to shut down actions and demotivate people. Like I get that they are often ridiculous laws, but also, we probably need to get better about crossing the t's and dotting the i's.
Around here they're also citing rando grandma church bakesale on the corner (is a big thing on the local news lately) which weirds me out, and makes me concerned about hunger/mutual aid going into the future with the economic deteriorating. Then again, if bake sale grandmas, left orgs and rando churches are all winging it they can't catch everyone sort of like during the depression my grandparents would tell me if the churches didn't have a meal for you the socialists would.
Usually these things work:
Of course they won't work everywhere, as cities have crafted very specifically anti-homeless legislation that wall off sections of cities from mutual aid.