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This week we helped our community member Anthony with some direct aid and posted a call for donations to help get his water turned back on after he fell behind on bills due to being out of work recovering from an operation.

Thank you everyone for sharing and boosting our last post, Anthony was able to pay for his water bill due to the peoples support! We all know capitalism does everything in its power to keep people at their lowest so please continue to support Anthony so he can get back on his feet. Share please! Cash app $elafonte

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CALL FOR DONATIONS! We’re asking our community to help us reach our goal of raising $450 by the end of July. This will help cover 50+ plates of hot meals for distribution day, keep our fund request form open to give individuals micro grants, purchase necessities, and re-stock and order sanitary items. Our houseless neighbors in Beaumont have also requested items, which include
-MEN’S T-SHIRTS
-SHORTS
-HATS
-BACKPACKS
-SHOES
Please DM us for a drop off location! As always thank you and all power to the people 🌱

TW Racial Violence

On this day in history, June 15, 1943, white workers unhappy with an influx of Black workers in industrial jobs in the Beaumont shipyard brutally massacred Beaumont’s Black citizens and looted and burned down black-owned businesses. Over 100 Black households were ransacked, at least 2 Black people were murdered, and dozens were injured by the white mob, which was over 4,000 strong. The white riots followed a 3 year period where Beaumont experienced a population boom—from 1940-1943 Beaumont grew from 59,000 to 80,000 residents, and by 1943 about a third of Beaumont’s population was Black. War time meant shortages on common goods for many, and the population boom made shortages worse. White residents, envious of Black folks attaining middle class status and gaining high paying positions in the defense industry at the shipyard on the Neches River while they struggled, amplified hate crimes against Black residents. Incidents of racial violence that summer in surrounding counties and Houston also fueled and emboldened Beaumont’s white residents. On June 15, tensions came to a head when a white woman claimed a black man had r***d her, though she was unable to identify her assailant. 2,000 white workers, joined by 2,000 white residents of Beaumont, gathered in the streets in a mob and advanced on the jail where suspects were reportedly being held. Splitting into groups, whites then went out into the city and terrorized Black Beaumonters. Of the thousands who participated, just 29 were charged with crimes. No one was specifically held responsible for the deaths during the riot. The massacre in Beaumont was accompanied by similar massacres that summer in Detroit, Mobile, Los Angeles, and Harlem. Photo courtesy of The Beaumont Enterprise.

Y’all have been asking and it’s finally here! WE NOW HAVE VENMO!

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As always, Cash App is $HungerHealthSETX

Please consider making a donation as hurricane season is now upon us. This is a great time of need for our organization and our community, and we expend a lot of time and financial resources when natural disasters hit—last year’s storms and this year’s ice storm definitely have taught us that. We appreciate donations of ANY amount (nothing is too small), and if you have in-kind donations for us, our monthly donation drive is TOMORROW, 5-8 PM in front of Tacos La Bamba. 💚✊

TOMORROW, 5/5, 5-8 PM

We will be setting up outside of Tacos La Bamba (2005 Calder Ave) for our monthly donation drive. Come donate your new or gently used items for us to distribute later in the month to our unhoused/unsheltered neighbors in SETX and grab a few tacos while you're there!

Now that we’ve finished Angela Y. Davis’ Are Prisons Obsolete? we are continuing our unit on prisons by reading George Jackson’s Blood In My Eye. BIME is a collection of letters and essays written by Jackson, co-founder of the Marxist-Leninist Black Guerrilla Family, while incarcerated in San Quentin, CA. This Sunday we will start by discussing the preface. DM us for the Zoom Meeting ID and come join and learn with us!