The SSI Restoration Act of 2021 is currently proposed to congress. SSI is a type of disability payment for disabled Americans. The bill will increase the SSI payment to the poverty level (right now the maximum payment is 9528$ a year). It will allow disabled people on SSI to marry and not lose their income. It will increase the asset and income caps for SSI among other improvements.
Friends and I made a website that has all of this info plus a REALLY easy way to send an email to your state reps. If you click the link below and click send email, you can send a letter of support for the SSI Restoration Act to your state reps. It’s already written and takes only a few minutes. Seriously it is ridiculously easy. These emails have more pull to reps than resistbot so please fill out if you can!
Please do this and boost! It could change the lives of millions of disabled Americans.
This got a big boost in reblogs/likes the last day or two. We are up to over 500 letters sent! Please keep boosting and if you are in the US and able to, actually do the letter campaign. We got 3 new cosponsors on the bill this week alone and will only get more if you contact your representatives.
This is out of the blue! I am Afghan and I am currently living in Afghanistan. Today (15 Aug 2021) the Taliban entered the capital city of Afghanistan which is Kabul. The government is going to change to an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. They ruled in Afghanistan for 5 years, 20 years ago. I’ve heard stories about them since I’m 19 and luckily was not yet born. And let me tell you the stories were terrifying, but they were just horror stories to me and I never thought that I’d be living under their regime, but here we are.
Let me tell you something shocking: girls can only study up to 6th grade. The future of female students in universities hasn’t been decided yet. According to what I’ve heard they go from house to house and ask for girls and women (12 to 45 year olds) for marriage.
As they are just pieces of crap, I don’t really believe that they’d let us have mobiles or use the internet. I really hope this isn’t my last post in here! But if it is I want to let the world know of what they’ve done and what they’re doing.
my friend Alicia made this video to show you the correct way to pronounce “axolotl”! it’s a Nahuatl word that gets mispronounced so often, often for puns right here on tumblr dot com, so I wanted to share this with you all because it’s important to respect Indigenous languages. you can find her artwork here!
additionally, after the earthquake, haiti suffered an outbreak of cholera. this cholera was brought to haiti by the un, something that took them more than 5 years to admit and killed more than 10000 people.
all of this is to say, do not donate to the red cross, the un, the clinton foundation or usaid. there will be those who say that these are reputable organizations with which to trust your money, but don’t fall for it. these imperialist organizations failed and caused suffering in haiti and should be met with suspicion when they ask for your money.
instead, focus your support on the actual haitian people and organizations run on the ground by haitians in haiti, not ngos organized without any connection to the country. support haitians in the diaspora to support their families back in haiti. one example of a trusted organization is the haiti emergency relief fund supported by the haiti information project, they work directly with organizations in okay (les cayes) that were impacted by the earthquake. send $$$ there or to other trusted anti-imperialist orgs before any kind of usaid type of situation.
I’m also reading that Fonkoze and Hope For Haiti are trustworthy. Can anyone confirm? I’m signal boosting post like these in the meantime that keep out the corrupted organizations from the donation lists.
As y’all know my mother passed away on august 1st and I’ve had to cover things like the cremation and other things regarding the burial and it’s left me with no money for other things like the memorial and my own personal expenses so I’m trying to raise some money to help with that so if anyone has anything to spare they donate it here:
“I just wanna remind all my chronically online leftists if youre sitting around debating theory and asking questions like ‘When is the revolution gonna happen?’ um… but you are not at places like this, you’re not donating….
Umm, you are missing the fact the revolution is happening right now. Water protectors, Indigenous, non-indigenous allies are coming together to protest against a multi-national oil corporation going through sovereign treaty land. So if you’re asking yourself ‘when is the revolution happening?’ I’d say it’s happening right now and you’re just not part of it.”
What can you do?Watch part 2 where they explain. I’ve linked their Linktree as well since it contains sources on how to get involved & where to donate (as well as the Google doc they mention in the video). (spoiler tho: get involved or donate)
