Neighborly actions TODAY, tonight, tomorrow...
Learn to save lives with Narcan, testify against eviction, stand up with land and water defenders, support Jhamal's recovery, and more!
Here are a few more things to do with and for our neighbors in the coming days! Also, a reminder to sign up to testify in favor of stopping evictions and foreclosures with RI Senate Bill 183. Sign up here by 4pm TODAY, testify starting at 4pm TOMORROW. For those who haven’t done this yet, the senate clerk will call you on the phone to testify, and they usually call people alphabetically by first name. Please reach out to Tenant Network RI (TenantNetworkRI on FB, Twitter & Instagram) if you have questions about testifying.
TODAY, 3/10, 6pm, Fortnight (187 Mathewson St, Providence): Harm Reduxxx is offering Narcan training and a fundraiser for their opioid harm reduction work! If you’ve been wanting to learn how to use Narcan to save your neighbors’ lives, this is a good chance to do so. Masks a must.
3/12, 6-7:30pm, remotely: I went to the testimony strategy training for the Rescue RI Act and it was extremely helpful! If you’d like to help create a unified front for sustainable and affordable housing, food justice and regenerative farming, and restoration for frontline RI communities, here’s the next training. There’s also some phone banking TOMORROW (3/11) and a flyer distribution session in Barrington on 3/14.
3/13, 11am-1pm, 180 Westminster St, Providence: Join the FANG Collective at the TD Bank downtown to demonstrate in solidarity with Indigenous land and water protectors fighting Line 3. TD Bank is the #1 investor of Enbridge, which is building this tar sands pipeline across Anishinaabe territory ("Minnesota"). Every piece of fossil fuel infrastructure is simultaneously a local issue—the pipeline would have disastrous effects on Anishinaabe land, water, soil food & relationships that are already damaged by colonization—and a global issue—the emissions from this pipeline will fuck up our growing seasons, threaten our coasts with rising seas, and increase our deadly high heat days right here in RI.
Anytime this week: Jhamal Gonsalves, in a coma for months after a police officer crashed into his moped, is home, awake, and speaking! Recovery is a long road and therapies are expensive: his fundraiser could use a boost.
With love,
Kate