NYC Shut It Down [Back Lives Matter, mutual aid, COVID19 food delivery]
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- Mission
- Abolition, Decolonization, Liberation NYC SHUT IT DOWN is a group of activists who came together after no justice was served in the murders of Mike Brown, and Eric Garner WE DEMAND an end to racist police terror, mass incarceration, and white supremacy! We work in solidarity with those fighting for Black liberation, and the liberation of all oppressed people. WE FIGHT here in NYC for a just city, where the $4.5 billion we give the NYPD each year is reallocated into healthcare, housing, jobs, schools, and other public programs that protect, not harm, our most marginalized communities.
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Starting Monday March 23,
NYC Shut It Down will be providing FREE home cooked meals and groceries to Black, Brown and Indigenous people in need for the duration of the COVID 19 crisis. These meals will be prepared in accordance with CDC and NYC DOH Guidelines and by licensed food handlers. We will take every precaution to prevent the spread of COVID 19 while also doing our best to alleviate the economic impacts of school and work closures.
We Keep Us Safe,
and we will continue to defend our communities from white supremacist and capitalist violence be it from police or from a state that is willing to abandon us amidst a global health crisis.
Vegan options will be provided, as well as groceries and personal hygiene products.
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If you are healthy (symptom free), have a car, and would like to help, or for material donations email us at: nycsidfooddelivery@gmail.com
For money donations please click the button below for our Go Fund Me or you can Venmo us at: @nycshutitdown
IN THE NEWS:
NYC Shut It Down, a group birthed during the Black Lives Matter movement, is building on its experience running a Sunday street corner cookout program for food insecure families in the Bronx and East Harlem. With the arrival of COVID-19, it began making home-cooked meals and delivering them door-to-door to households across four boroughs. Within five days, the group served about 207 households including 750 individuals, prepping three to five meals per person, or close to 3,000 meals total, along with groceries. This was accomplished by a group of about five to ten kitchen volunteers, another dozen drivers and runners, and then another four or five members of Cosmos AFA, an anti-fascist football club, though others have offered to volunteer. Thanks to a connection through World Central kitchen, they’re now operating out of a Fedcap Rehabilitation kitchen space. The group is also delivering to people who need groceries without meal prep, and hopes to build out other initiatives.
“[It’s about] building the world that we want, rather than demanding it from the state—rather than fighting for it in a more conventional sense…it’s bigger than that. We’re trying to build the world that we want to see,” says June, the member whose kitchen became the launch pad and who asked that their last name not be used. June adds that the work, “speaks to the kind of care that most of these grassroots organizations have for the communities that they’re working with.”
https://citylimits.org/2020/04/03/mutual-aid-movement-playing-huge-role-in-covid-19-crisis/