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DC Unhoused Support @RemoraHouse_DC • anarchist • antifascist • anthropologist • PhD candidate • she/they Don’t report my tweets to my mom

Washington, DC
Joined December 2019
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@shanthropology
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Housed people get in arguments, do drugs, have domestic disputes, are generally messy, but when unhoused people are forced to live & do those things in public spaces it’s treated as criminal & unacceptable.
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
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This is who we fight for. Students are putting everything on the line so this little kid can grow up.
@MuhammadSmiry
Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸
6 months
Meet our mini boss | Gaza
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@shanthropology
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2 years
If you say the phrase “but they refused housing” it should be law that you have to explain in excruciating detail the exact circumstances of the “housing” that was offered
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@shanthropology
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@shanthropology
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3 years
I made some really stupid, DMV specific art I hope the zebras never get caught.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
I’m sorry, so you’re telling me there was a training drill happening at a library during business hours somehow involving live ammunition and the cops accidentally killed one of their own?
@RealTimeNews10
DC REALTIME NEWS
2 years
UPDATE: FATAL OFFICER ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING: Initial reports suggest a training was being conducted inside the library and the officer was shot. It is believed to be accidental, MPD will be investigating. That officer has been pronounced dead at a local hospital.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Finding out Waffle House is backing Cop City
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
3 years
You don’t need a 501(c)3 status to help your neighbors. Just help your neighbors.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
IMPORTANT REMINDERS: - mask up, cover your tattoos, don’t wear easily identifiable clothes & destroy your bloc if you’re near anything spicy - go with a group - phone on airplane mode or leave it at home - always leave in small groups & watch your surroundings
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@shanthropology
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5 months
Dip out, don’t get arrested, pop back up & fight again. This is a marathon, not a sprint, & we need everyone in the fight. Mass arrests aren’t a tactic to clog up the injustice system anymore, don’t get captured.
@elleryrjones
ellery jones
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I'm at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics, where police have entered the building after protestors took it over.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
For example, when @brookepintodc says “they refused housing,” the housing = a shared motel room w/ a stranger, 7pm curfew, can only bring 2 bags, no guests, can only come & go 2-3 times a day, roach infested grab & go breakfast. Break a rule you’re out.
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@shanthropology
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3 years
Unhoused people are your neighbors.
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
2 years
When a man was trapped in his tent & being loaded into a trash compactor at a camp eviction, the police scrambled to block us from helping & made no attempts to render aid or help the man.
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@shanthropology
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3 years
Made a hoop for a friend. Don’t talk to cops!
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Some important things: - if a fascist shows up at a thing, asking them politely to leave will not work - deescalators aren’t trained to deal with fascists - ignoring them will not work Please listen to AFA folks when we’re trying to give you safety guidance on dealing with fash
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@shanthropology
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3 years
@JoshuaPotash The main issue with turning corporate spaces in living spaces is lack of bathrooms & showers. I see a lot of calls to turn empty office buildings into apartments, but it would actually be easier to just build apartments for people.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Couldn’t rest until I stitched dumpster raccoon
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
11 months
Do I… do we… we just don’t go to work tomorrow, right?
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
10 months
The number of asterisks indicating someone had been matched to housing is just heartbreaking.
@jesserbnwtz
Jesse Rabinowitz 🔥🌹@jesserbnwtz.bsky.social
10 months
This is a list of the 90 people who died without housing in #WashingtonDC . The same DC where @POTUS lives. The same DC where Congress meets. The same DC with a $19+ billion budget.
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@shanthropology
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3 years
Walmart on Georgia Ave also has tshirts, underwear, & socks locked up. Poverty leads to need leads to “crime” leads to policing which leads to poverty which leads to “crime” etc etc
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@shanthropology
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2 years
First potential customer of the day at the DC Punk Rock Flea Market has asked us what ACAB means
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@shanthropology
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3 years
STOP. JUST. LEAVING. FOOD. AT. UNHOUSED. CAMPS. Especially right in front of people’s camps. All you are doing is attracting rats that destroy their tents & bite them while they try to eat. Then they are stuck cleaning up the mess.
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@shanthropology
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Stop describing police raids & violence as anarchy. That’s fascism. Anarchy is the free food, medic tents, shared community guidelines, the community meetings, insisting on breaking the division between student & non-student.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Trying to use nicer or milder or whatever tactics because you don’t agree with aggressive and/or physical confrontation isn’t really a decision you get to make when you’ve got Nazis showing up at shit
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@shanthropology
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3 years
Met a woman today that was turned away from 4 shelters because she’s on oxygen “& sometimes people smoke in the bathrooms so the whole place could blow up.” So add that to the long list of reasons people sleep outside & not in shelters.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Truly didn’t realize how much of antifascist work is trying to get people to understand that having Nazis around is bad
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Shameless plug for my org, please donate if you can so we can continue to materially support our unhoused neighbors
@RemoraHouse_DC
Remora House DC
3 years
Happy Equinox! As winter ends & spring begins our Summer 2022 fundraiser kicks off! Historically, as temps rise so do complaints of unhoused camps! Help us continue our material support & advocacy for unhoused people in DC! Cashap: $RemoraHouseDC 🖤🖤🖤
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
4 years
“Mutual aid” groups getting grants from the IMF 🥴
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
2 years
Apparently folks in the nonprofit world have been uncomfortable with how we send no questions asked cash to unhoused neighbors, to which I say: Don’t tell me to tell people what to do. That’s two layers of telling people what to do. Don’t. Mind your business.
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@shanthropology
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3 years
If you are coming to DC to cover the upcoming arrival of the trucker convoy: LEAVE UNHOUSED PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR PICTURES Really, there is no need to take pictures of unhoused people & their things without their permission ever. Period.
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@shanthropology
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3 years
@DCist To clarify: the bull dozer didn’t like bump into them, the tent was crushed & lifted in the bucket about to be loaded into the garbage truck.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Seasons are changing, so you know what that means: everyone is cleaning out their closets & wants to donate their things. Here’s some suggested dos & donts for donating stuff to your local mutual aid group, learned through my experience sorting through a whole buncha stuff. 1/7
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
2 years
Little identifiable things to be mindful of & cover/alter: - your beautiful manicure - glasses - that cute shirt you bought on Etsy - eyebrows - ears
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
3 years
I made the metro map! Do you like it more with or without the stations marked?
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@shanthropology
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2 years
There’s a new women’s march action floating around so quick reminder: DO NOT SIGN UP FOR A DIRECT ACTION. DO NOT GIVE YOUR LEGAL NAME, BIRTHDAY, ADDRESS, ETC TO A GROUP PLANNING A DIRECT ACTION. THESE LISTS CAN & WILL BE ACQUIRED BY COPS TO PROSECUTE YOU.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
LEAVE YOUR PHONE AT HOME, if you want someone to have one for emergencies, pick up a burner
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@shanthropology
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4 years
Stop. Just. Leaving. Boxes. Of. Food. (Especially). And. Other. Supplies. At. Unhoused. Camps. Stop. This is something we hear frequently, & have seen ourselves at unhoused camps, that really needs to stop. If you cannot give it directly to someone, take it back with you. 🧵1/7
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@shanthropology
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DO NOT PUT MILK IN YOUR EYES, FOLKS
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@shanthropology
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2 years
@ahouse4all Was recently asked “how would you solve homelessness if you had unlimited funding” & I said “oh I don’t need funding”
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Free yourselves from the “leftist” organization industrial complex. Just get into mischief with your friends.
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@naebumaye He did! They finally set the tent down & let him out, he had minor injuries but overall was okay.
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@shanthropology
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Since I know y’all can’t help yourselves, if you get a door knock ask for their contact information & tell them your attorney will contact them
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@shanthropology
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2 years
No one is coming to save us but ourselves. Please act accordingly.
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2 years
DC! If you are going out to SCOTUS — COVER YOUR FACE. Lots of fash streamers are down there, cover yourself up.
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@shanthropology
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3 years
“We are nature defending itself.” - a badass Indigenous organizer at the Appalachian Climate Action Camp
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Hey folks, Do not let a group convince you to do a risky action without having training. It’s seems to me the cult is having folks dangle from bridges & cranes without training. People train for months for these sort of actions. Don’t do it.
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@shanthropology
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1 year
Tried to buy pride patches at target, self checkout flagged it & sent a team member over who then said they weren’t allow to sell those…
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
2 years
Crisis pregnancy centers do not offer abortions but will make you think they do & then preach at you to not get one. They often open shop near actual abortion providers to trick people.
@StreamerWayward
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When I arrived I parked a bit down the street and took my pictures and left. "End forced motherhood" "Not real clinic" to inform those who look to get services claimed to be offered to look else where and not at the grift of the clinics who take advantage of people with uteruses.
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@shanthropology
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1 year
If you are coming to DC for the march, please: - Wear a mask - Respect unhoused ppl & spaces - Tip your service workers - Yell at Jason Bagshaw
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
4 years
Literally who the fuck is asking that
@MurielBowser
Muriel Bowser
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People have asked how they can support @DCPoliceDept in this trying time By supporting the @DCPoliceFdtn , you can support our heroes
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@shanthropology
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4 years
Mutual aid is direct action. It counters capitalist logic by building relationships & communities that truly sustain ourselves & each other.
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@shanthropology
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3 years
DC is not the progressive, liberal city that people imagine it is. It’s full of racist, classist conservatives that happen to vote Democrat.
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@shanthropology
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I finished my first quilt 🥹
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3 years
For DC, J6 wasn’t a one day event. For the 14 days that followed, we were a militarily occupied city organizing to keep each other safe, assuming that J20 would be worse. I thought people were gonna die & the work we did those two weeks was to prevent that as much as possible.
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
3 years
Lol lmao, apparently DC roads have defeated Patriot Front. Maybe that’s why you shouldn’t roll up in cities you do not live in to do your nazi shit.
@RedoubtAFA
Redoubt Antifascists
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The Patriot Front vans got lost in DC. "I heard one of them earlier say they got lost. That the vans dropped somewhere and then got lost."
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
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I know this is wild for some folks to hear, but harassing unhoused people & throwing away their belongings doesn’t magically get them into an apartment.
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
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“Federal court rules ‘just die already’ isn’t a legal approach to homelessness”
@sfchronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
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A city can't punish homeless people for sleeping on public property or using blankets and pillows to protect themselves from the elements, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
4 years
As National Guard filed into DC last week, Mayor Bowser said we’d return to a “new normal” after inauguration. Now National Guard will be staying in the District through at least March. Just an FYI for folks that stopped paying attention to DC after the 20th.
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
3 years
People that are forced to live outside still have to use the bathroom. Don’t know why this is shocking to housed people.
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
6 months
This guy needs to be ID’d, since he proudly showed his face to the camera let’s let the world know who he is
@PplsCityCouncil
People's City Council - Los Angeles
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VIOLENT ZIONIST! This guy snuck into the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at UCLA and started putting his hands on multiple people, trying to provoke protestors. This is who they are. Violent pigs. Expose this guy:
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@shanthropology
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Unhoused people are your neighbors.
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
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The immediate demand is still a permanent cease fire. The ultimate demand is still a free Palestine.
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The world has simply gone mad. A 4 day break to feed and water the people of Gaza before going back to carpet bombing them. Just absolute madness.
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Again, when antifascists talk about Nazis we mean literal fucking Nazis, not your MAGA uncle (although we’re keeping an eye on him too). It’s not a euphemism, we have an actual literal Nazi problem & everyone needs to show out to crush it.
@FlExtremeWatch
Florida Extremist Watch
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Wish these Nazi scumbags would take their masks off so we could see how many are former & current @RonDeSantis @GovRonDeSantis staff. We know at least one of them made the Ron DeeSantis Nazi campaign video.
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@shanthropology
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3 years
Lol I made this
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anarcho-racoonist
4 years
I have somehow both done absolutely nothing for one whole year & also not had a moment’s rest for one whole year
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2 years
A good general policy to have if random people ask you for locations of unhoused encampments: don’t.
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3 years
@JoshuaPotash Yesss it would be wonderful to use that much space for free community services. Just free spaces to hang out would be wonderful, but stores could be used by different mutual aid groups offering free services 😍
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3 years
We went to McPherson Square with @dc_fnb the Saturday after J6 & unhoused folks down there hadn’t eaten in DAYS. Organizers were busting their asses to get folks to safety, around the national guard & police. Fuck everyone that fed the cops & the national guard.
@MacFarlaneNews
Scott MacFarlane
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VERY COOL: Disclosure made to DC Council shows people donated 60 care packages, 5000 hot meals and 3800+ STARBUCKS gift cards to DC police officers in the days after the Jan. 6 US Capitol Insurrection
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@shanthropology
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3 years
Instead of calling the cops on your unhoused neighbors I’d like to invite you to do literally anything else with your time.
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
2 years
1. We don’t want your trash If it is something completely broken, unusable, or widely impractical that someone else wouldn’t want or couldn’t use, don’t donate it. Find a way to repurpose or look for local folks that take stuff to repurpose. 2/7
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@shanthropology
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2 years
The Convoy is “going dark” (shutting off streams) now in Hagerstown & are lining up presumably to come down to DC. We don’t know if this is for real, a test run, or a bluff, but I’d recommend DC folks keep eyes & ears out. If you see something, feel free to DM me.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Turns out you cannot vitamin d and SAD lamp your way out of burnout, who knew 🤷🏼‍♀️
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anarcho-racoonist
4 years
While folks are celebrating the first full day of the Biden presidency, unhoused residents’ that were sheltered for safety during inauguration are being put back out on the street
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@shanthropology
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2 years
4. Give us clean stuff! Laundry takes money, time, & energy! Give me clean things I can turn around & hand out. Especially in these current plague times. 5/7
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@shanthropology
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2. If groups have a list of donation needs, don’t toss in extra stuff when your drop off. It takes a surprising amount of time & effort to sort & store donations. Tossing in extra stuff we don’t need or want piles on more time for us to figure out how to redistribute. 3/7
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3 years
Hell yeah, a good reason to build more bike lanes
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2 years
If there’s a Nazi at your event, you are at a Nazi event
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@shanthropology
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3 years
A lot of the unhoused people I know want two major things: 1) housing 2) to be left alone until they get housing
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3 years
I would rather sit in a two hour long meeting about whether we’re gonna use radios at the action or not than show up in organizing spaces & just have someone act like my boss & give me orders.
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Time to prepare myself for the wave of J6 hot takes that completely ignore that people live in DC & were working tirelessly to keep each other safe that week(s) & are still dealing with trauma from that.
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@shanthropology
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2 years
Finished the first batch of these orders, I’m really happy with them ☺️
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
3 years
Pack of some bags with hand warmers & body wipes. Put $10 bills in them. Hand them out to your unhoused neighbors on the street. Don’t have the cash to do it solo? Talk to your neighbors & friends & pool your resources.
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2 years
An unhoused friend asked me to share this reminder with y’all: STOP JUST LEAVING FOOD AT CAMPS & TENTS If someone is not home, do not just leave food. Not only is it unhealthy, it’s nasty & attracts pests. You are just giving residents a cleaning chore. Stop it.
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Another comment, whispered to their partner: “ohh they’re antifa”
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1 year
Shoutout to the parents that let their kids have a bunch of anarchists mentor their children lol
@RemoraHouse_DC
Remora House DC
1 year
For the past couple months we’ve been mentoring a local Girl Scout troop who are making sleeping mats from recycled plastic bags to distribute to unhoused neighbors! Check out these mats they’ve made so far!
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
3 years
L M A O oh my god
@reesewaters
Reese Waters
3 years
Today’s Greatest Hit comes from Remora House, aka @Shanthropology , who tweeted this photo with the caption “I made some really stupid, DMV specific art. I hope the zebras never get caught.” #PGCounty #PGZebras #DMV
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@shanthropology
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2 years
If you want to support my org, which provides material support to unhoused neighbors & will also fight the cops when they do bull shit like this & publicly shame elected officials for their complicity in it, donate here:
@RemoraHouse_DC
Remora House DC
3 years
Happy Equinox! As winter ends & spring begins our Summer 2022 fundraiser kicks off! Historically, as temps rise so do complaints of unhoused camps! Help us continue our material support & advocacy for unhoused people in DC! Cashap: $RemoraHouseDC 🖤🖤🖤
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3 years
Fun fact: you can give people housing without criminalizing homelessness right before a massive surge in evictions
@HillRagDC
HillRag DC
3 years
A pilot project accelarates access to housing for residents of the two underpass encampments, whic will be cleared Sept. 20. After that, the area will become a 'no-tent' zone: DC Permanently Removing NoMA Underpass Encampments
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
3 years
Generalizing all unhoused people as criminals is, in fact, very racist
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Police officers were actively trying to run their motorcycles & cars into antifascists walking behind the Patriot Front march
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anarcho-racoonist
4 years
I’m not procrastinating, I’m resisting capitalist configurations of time and notions of productivity.
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anarcho-racoonist
3 years
A+, no notes
@ShutDown_DC
ShutDownDC
3 years
Big powerful convoy slowed down by… a single bicyclist #DCMeansDontCome #ConvoyGoHome
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
3 years
EVICTING UNHOUSED PEOPLE FROM STABLE COMMUNITIES DOES NOT MAKE THEM MAGICALLY GET HOUSING, IT ACTUALLY MAKES IT A LOT FUCKING HARDER
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@shanthropology
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3. That being said, if in doubt, just ask! Sometimes we have capacity to take extra stuff on & get it to groups that can use it or have extra storage & can hang onto stuff until a need pops up. BUT ASK. 4/7
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@shanthropology
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If you’re in DC & wondering how to prep for the oncoming fascist invasion: TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBORS! We are gonna need everyone to take care of each other & show up in the streets to send these people packing. Remember how mad you were after J6? Channel that!
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@shanthropology
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3 years
Lol lmao this is the first time I’ve had one of my pictures live a second life on Twitter
@r2020PB
/r/2020PoliceBrutality
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3 years
Stop using plants as anti-homeless architecture you evil hags
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
3 years
Speaking of, my org @RemoraHouse_DC is currently helping with a couple unhoused camp eviction defenses on top of our usual supply distros — you can donate to help us out C*shapp $RemoraHouseDC Or Givebutter:
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@shanthropology
anarcho-racoonist
1 year
Working on some new hoops 🏴🏴
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anarcho-racoonist
3 years
I thought I was done with zebras but was called back into duty (got another zebra request). So if you want a zebra, I’ll be doing 10 more! $35, local pickup or $5 for shipping. DM me!
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