From the Roots 240

Getting to the root of the conditions that create homelessness and housing insecurity in PG County, while growing power to end them 🌱

[From the Roots 240 @FTR_240]

Welcome to From the Roots 240! From our experience in mutual aid organizing in PG County, we realized that only offering services was not enough. As such, we are establishing a new organization that focuses on building power poor people can exercise around the places they live.

[From the Roots 240 @FTR_240]

We are collecting donations for a comrade who is going through a number of tough life changes, including a pregnancy. If you have money to spare to help a young woman of color, please donate to Tricia510 on Venmo or $annemi20 with a 🧡. Thanks for your support!

[DC Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression @dcaarpr]

The DC Alliance invites all DC area activists and organizers, and the community at-large to this teach-in that will address the several issues related to the police state and repression.

Come join us to discuss Community Control Over Police as a response to police violence.

[WBUR @WBUR]

You can order free COVID tests by mail again, starting today: https://t.co/LjBbductkZ

[Stop The Sweeps DC @StoptheSweepsDC]

CALL TO ACTION!

Residents have asked for neighbors to show up in solidarity as their camp is evicted this coming Friday! Bring a sign & a phone with full battery to document & share this inhumane treatment.

[Black Lives Matter DC @DMVBlackLives]

Troy “TJ” Bullock was fatally shot by an off duty FBI Agent here in DC on 12/7/22. Please make a donation to help his family lay him to rest. ❤️ https://t.co/Ly8cTRGrjw

[Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition @BethAfrCemetery]

We are so close to hitting 600 signatures on our petition calling for a congressional hearing into African burial ground desecration in the United States!

✍️If you haven't yet, please sign and share!

https://t.co/r7evxkoQ9X

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

On this day in 1969, the Chicago Police department, operating as a death squad, ki!!ed Fred Hampton. The operation was a cold-blooded political assassination carried out with assistance from the F.B.I.

[Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition @BethAfrCemetery]

Join us tomorrow, Sunday December 4th at 5:30 PM at 8656 Colesville Road (The Filmore Silver Spring) to demand @RepRaskin and local government officials stop ignoring their constituents and step up to end the racist desecration of Moses Cemetery.
Let our ancestors rest in peace!

[From the Roots 240 @FTR_240]

Image description on our IG! https://t.co/Id7k7YvkSO

[From the Roots 240 @FTR_240]

It's #GivingTuesday ! If you can spare a dollar or two, consider dropping us a donation to support our unhoused neighbors! (Or become a monthly donor!!!)

[Food Not Bombs DC @dc_fnb]

Your weekly reminder that @DowntownDCBID clear cut the shade trees in @FranklinPrkDC to discourage unhoused residents from congregating.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

DC folks! There will be a vigil on Saturday, the 26th, at Malcolm X park at 5PM for the victims of Club Q. Please show up and support the LGBTQ+ community by standing up for your queer sibblings.

[The Way Home DC @thewayhomeDC]

It's #HungerAndHomelessnessAwarenessWeek! All week we will share facts about chronic homelessness in DC.

We know that homelessness is a choice, a policy choice made by elected officials and the continuation of oppressive systems like capitalism and racism.

[Sanctuary DMV @SanctuaryDMV]

While the news cycles may have moved on, we are still working to help our new neighbors coming from Texas and Arizona.

To support this work, venmo @sanctuaryDMV with the note "Texas Solidarity."

Thank you to everyone who has and is helping us support our new neighbors.

[Colleen Grablick @colleengrablick]

people experiencing homelessness are some of D.C.'s most vulnerable yet least supported residents in the face of climate change. for the homeless reporting project, i looked at how increasingly extreme flooding impacts the city's unhoused residents:
https://t.co/ZvncOUWu6f

[Geoff Gilbert @geoff_gilbert1]

Queeny is being evicted - support with moving $ https://t.co/6cRVYFjTiG

For > 30 years, Queeny has been vending clothes & Trinidadian food in Columbia Heights- she’s one of the original vendors in the area. Help her stay in the neighborhood

@DCW1MutualAid @DCW4MutualAid