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Help Feed Your Neighbors: Food not Bombs Seattle (Seattle)

Food not Bombs Seattle is a mutual aid group with a simple purpose: distribute free food to anyone and everyone in Seattle’s Occidental Square every Saturday and Sunday at 5 PM. It’s really that simple! If you’d like to help get food to folks, show up any Saturday or Sunday at 5 PM to help distribute food, build connections, and better understand ways you can help! Some other ways to help include:

• Tabling events
• Helping manage the website
• Cooking food
• Picking up food from the website

If you work at a restaurant and have unsold food- please let them know! You can contact Food not Bombs Seattle at hello@seattlefoodnotbombs.org

Let’s meet up and share warm meals and warm vibes with our neighbors!

Help Feed Your Neighbors: Reno Burrito Project (Reno)

I’ve mentioned Reno Burrito Project a few times on the blog- the TLDR is that they are a Reno based org which makes burritos and distributes through the city for folks experiencing homelessness and/or hunger. Well it’s a new month, and that means new distribution dates! Check out their Instagram post here with June’s dropoff dates (6/1 TODAY, 6/15, 6/29) including details on when and where to meet up. Want to help roll burritos? Show up at 12 PM at their listed meetup location on June 1st TODAY , 15th, or 29th. Want to distribute? Show up at the same spot at 2 PM on the same dates. Want to do BOTH? Show up at noon and stick around! Not available/able to roll or distribute? Feel free to shoot them some money for burrito supplies here!

Burritos are a magical thing, and you can help share that with your neighbors who could really use their warm, comforting embrace.

Nationwide Day of Protest: No Kings (organized by 50501)

I mentioned 50501 previously in regards to a different round of organized nationwide protests at the beginning of April. This June, they’re organizing another one. On June 14th, 50501 is organizing No Kings- a day of nationwide protests against the blatant corruption and fascism we all are seeing. From the 50501 website: On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. It rises up everywhere else. No Kings is a nationwide day of defiance. From city blocks to small towns, from courthouse steps to community parks, we’re taking action to reject authoritarianism—and show the world what democracy really looks like.

There are planned protests in literally every corner of the country- check out a map of planned rallies here. If you don’t see one close to you and are interested in hosting one, please check out their toolkit for hosts here outlining helpful (and necessary) tips BEFORE creating an event. Then, check out this link if you are ready to organize your own event in order to create an event page.

As always- if you are protesting- BE SAFE. WEAR A MASK. COVER YOUR TATTOOS. WEAR GENERIC CLOTHING (monochome black, brown, etc. No unique images or logos). LEAVE YOUR PHONE AT HOME (TURNED ON) IF YOU CAN. Remember that undercover cops are prevalent- if someone is a liiiiittle too friendly and wants to know all the details of how you got there/ the people you’re with/ specifics about the event, direct them to the event organizers and keep mum.