Neighborly actions: Support the Teamsters Friday Morning!
Join the picket line! Make a print studio more accessible! Feed people for free!
Hi everyone. You’re getting this on a Thursday because our first neighborly action this week is early Friday morning:
Friday, 7/21, 8:45am, 150 Plan Way, Warwick: Join the picket line in support of UPS Teamsters, who have voted to strike on August 1st if their new contract doesn’t include protection from heat and other workplace hazards, higher pay and more full-time jobs, and an end to management harassment and forced overtime. Stop by on your way to work! Call Chelsea at 401-308-3157 with questions or to see what you can bring or drop off (e.g. water, coffee, donuts—but ASK).
7/26 and every Wednesday, George Wiley Center (32 East Ave, Pawtucket): The community fridge will be filled on this day. This food is free and it is for you if you need it, any week you need it, no questions asked. People looking to donate unexpired food can drop it off at that same address Mondays and Tuesdays between 10am and 3pm; if you have questions, text Daisy at 401-548-1302.
BY 7/28, anytime, remotely: Binch Press/QAW is holding a raffle to make their collective print studio more accessible—examples include comfortable chairs, mobility-aid-friendly stress mats, noise-cancelling headphones, KN95 masks, and stepstool. For prizes, they’ve got zines, shirts, prints, custom pet portraits, an incredible work of art by Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, and more (see the @queerarchivework Instagram for details and pictures). The raffle runs through 7/28, and sending $10 gets you one ticket. Once you’ve done that, fill out this form so the raffle-runners know whose entry is whose, and can get you your prize if you win!
This week’s neighborly actions are reminding me just how many ways there are for us to look out for each other and to side with one another, and how none of those ways are perfect or complete, but if we can get them to overlap at the edges, we can cover a lot of ground.
With love
Kate