Nobody has made me feel safer or more respected than the filthy perverted freaks I was warned about.
Me and who
👻:wiz.fee
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ALTThe IWW is a union for all workers!
As long as you are a worker — not an employer — you can join the IWW. Members of other unions (except officers), students, retirees, the unemployed, the self-employed, those in informal professions, and those unable to work may also join. To us, you are all workers.
There is a difference in interests at work between employees and employers. Even if someone doesn’t own the business, if they have real hiring and firing power over other workers then they count as an employer to us.
By restricting our membership to only workers we make it easier to act in solidarity with other people at your job and improve your working conditions. If you are a worker then you belong in the IWW with us!
Find more information about joining your local branch at iww.org/membership.
Support the Gainesville Free Grocery Store!
(Not to be confused with the Gainesville Free Store, which you should also support)
From their website:
We are an all-volunteer mutual aid food pantry and garden based in Gainesville, FL. We support our communities’ right to healthy and nutritious food by distributing free food through delivery and in-person services, and by growing some of the food ourselves!
We give out food for free to people dealing with food insecurity, no questions asked.
We deliver food to folks who can’t leave their homes due to lack of transportation or disability.
We grow veggies at the McRorie Community Garden! All produce is distributed through our pantries.
Hi! The city of Gainesville, Florida is one of the worst places in America to be homeless, but the good news is that it's also in the middle of an apocalyptic housing crisis. Large swaths of the city, including its remaining Black neighborhoods, are food deserts. The Gainesville Free Grocery Store distributes free food to the hungry and needy on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Civic Media Center at 433 South Main Street downtown, and they help a lot of people and are saving lives. They could use support!
From the website:
Donating Food
As of November 2025, we can accept food donations at Working Food (219 NW 10th Ave. Gainesville, FL) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10a-2p. If you have a larger donation you’d like to make but cannot come during those times, please email us to coordinate an alternate drop-off time.
You can also donate food on the same day as our food pantries at the Civic Media Center (433 S. Main St.) as early as 12 pm. On good weather days, you can drop off food in the courtyard, but please text us if you’ve left food so that we know and can bring it inside.
Guidelines for what we can and prefer to accept are as follows:
- Packaged food – Must be unopened and unexpired
- Canned proteins (beans, tuna, chicken)
- Grains (rice, pasta, flour, cornmeal)
- Shelf-stable milks
- Oils (vegetable, olive, etc.)
- Snacks (crackers, gummies, applesauce)
- Ground coffee
- Baby food
- We always appreciate gluten-free products and vegan substitutes!
- Fruits and vegetables
- Must not be moldy or severely damaged
- We welcome farm or garden-fresh vegetables!
- Eggs
- We cannot accept farm-fresh eggs due to food safety guidelines
- Prepared food
- We cannot accept fresh/homemade prepared food
If you’d like to run a food drive for us, email, Instagram DM, or call us!
Giving Money
Recurring donations help us create stability for people experiencing food insecurity. Recurring donations help us transform from charity and towards solidarity. $10 pays for a week of groceries for 5 families. $50 pays for a little more than a month for the same 5 families.
The easiest way to donate money is through our PayPal, Venmo, or CashApp.
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Also reblog this post a lot! I'll try to remember to do a fresh reblog with times and dates when each event is announced, so don't forget to check the notes :)
Hey I set up one of these things here if you think what we're up to deserves financial subsidy. It's got stuff I need for work on it and also stuff I just want and also like. Groceries.
Check it out if ur feeling the seasons greasons spirit that'd be cool.
Ten thousand blessings upon the ppl who bought me vitamins and toilet paper and bread <3
This is a good good list that unfortunately a lot of people need right now.
Good tips. I can vouch for many of these. Here are a couple more that have worked for me (U.S.-based):
- Get on food stamps before you are actually homeless, if you can. It’s just less complicated that way, but I have also had good luck just being very straightforward with DHS about my situation.
- The article talks about not paying for storage – I really think your mileage may vary on that one. I paid for a cheap storage unit that I split with my sister for a couple years. If you really do have things of value that you want to keep, I say do it if you can find a cheap unit. ALSO, I have low-key stayed in my storage unit. You can’t do it for long, and depending on the place, it can be sketchy, but it can be done.
- National parks and Forest Service campsites. Yeah there is definitely the whole day-use only thing but there are some that aren’t monitored. They often have bathrooms, and for me, it sometimes felt way safer being away from people.
- Hook up with your local Food Not Bombs. It’s usually really good food and run by folks who are used to working outside the system. You might be able to make friends and score a place to live or stay.
- When I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to afford rent for the foreseeable future, I bought myself a cheap travel trailer. 600 bucks and I’ve lived in it for almost five years now. Friends are way more likely to let you live indefinitely in their driveway or on their land than endlessly crashing on their couch. I do work-trade or pay what I can for utilities. If your car can’t haul it (mine can’t), rent a U-Haul truck for a day to get it where you need it to be. Obviously this requires some cash, but if you can swing it, it can really save your ass in the long run.
- Make a plan for bad weather – heat waves and cold snaps can kill. Heat is worse for me where I live, so I make sure to have a list of spots I can escape to. This is where those national parks can sometimes come in handy, but also think about overpasses, city parks with lots of shade, abandoned buildings. Know where your local cooling/warming shelters are. Keep some money stashed away if you can to pay for cheap motel rooms during the worst weather. If you can split the cost of a room with friends, even better.
- Have a few strategically stashed canisters of mace or pepper spray.
- But at the same time, look out for each other. You don’t have to become bosom buddies with everyone else on the street, but treating each other like humans is both good for your mental and emotional health and also you’ll find that people are often really amazingly generous with their resources and knowledge.
Good advice. Storage is also one of those thing that a friend might be able to help you with. Cheap storage options are often damp or not as secure as you’d like. That might be a bad place to put your childhood photo albums, electronics, important paperwork, favorite dress, those expensive shoes you bought once… If a friend is willing to store a few boxes of stuff, at least you know those things are safe and dry.
etc.
Our Union Hall Needs Help!
Friends, followers, and Fellow Workers, the Gainesville IWW's beloved union hall, the Civic Media Center, is in need. The Civic Media Center of Gainesville, Florida, provides countless vital community resources, such as:
- The Stetson Kennedy Library, a reading room and leftist library that is home to 15,000 books, journals, newspapers, and magazines.
- The Travis Fristoe Zine Library, largest independent zine collection in the southeastern United States.
- A meeting space for countless local activism and social justice groups such as the IWW, Food Not Bombs, and Books to Prisoners.
- The Gainesville Free Store, which was founded to help local transgender people access affirming clothing and toiletries as well as other important items. The Free Store has seen so much success that they've expanded to serve the entire Gainesville community.
- The Gainesville Free Grocery Store, which offers no-questions-asked food to anyone who walks in.
- A cool, dry place to rest, with an open bathroom frequently used by our unhoused neighbors.
- A venue for local musicians and poets to perform, including during the renowned music festival FEST.
- So, so much more. Losing this community hub would be an absolutely devastating blow to our town and our union. We cannot let it die.
Via the Civic Media Center's own social media:
Dear friends, please us survive the Summer Doldrums by renewing your membership or, if you can, making an extra donation in whatever amount you can spare to help us cover rent, bills, and some extra work on our facilities this summer.
Here is the direct link to the membership & donation page on our website: https://www.civicmediacenter.org/get-involved
If you have Venmo or PayPal you can also just make a contribution using the handle in the graphic below.
Thank you for supporting the CMC!
ALTPlease, if you can, help us out with a signal boost or a donation -- we love our union hall, and our community needs it!
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