Sharing is a hand or a hug when things get really scary. And things are getting really scary. At the national/international level we wake up daily and check if we’re at war with anybody yet. No. Not yet. But the stress remains and we need community to survive it.
To the more personal level of waking up daily and wondering if you or someone you know will be arrested, deported, or just beaten up for not fitting an apparently required American stereotype; if you or someone you know will die because of no insurance; if you or someone you know will lose a job or other income to give tax breaks to the wealthy. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Either way we need community to survive it.
To the very personal, impacted by and probably originally caused by political decisions somewhere, but very immediate level of if you or someone you know is going to be evicted now or by the end of the month, if you or someone you know can right now get food for self or family, if you or someone you know can right now keep the lights on, if you or someone you know can right now get the meds they need. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Either way we need community to survive it.
But for those very personal right now issues to survive requires more than the hug, as helpful and comforting as a hug may be. It needs a hand. For everybody on the Needs List at least part of that hand needs to be money. For Fineena it can also be a literal hand — as in she needs volunteers in the Charlotte, NC area to help her pack and move before the end of the month. (eeff has made his truck/trailer available for the move on Saturday 5/27.)
We are community — family, tribe, company, village, culture, and ultimately the state that survives beyond the life of any single member and supports/strengthens the life of each individual member by helping each other, by sharing. We survive, thrive only in and as community — all together.
So we persist in helping our community members in need of funding:
The folks needing help are in alphabetical order. Names link to their profile pages.
Aji profile page — building to replace the home repossessed after the 2008 crash rests on three posts: sales of Wings’ NDN Silverwork + Lowes gift cards for materials + fundraising. More of the 1st two = less of the 3rd. Purchasing Lowes gift cards (plumbing, flooring, appliances...) www.amazon.com… and sharing wingssilverwork.com everywhere/often will greatly reduce fundraiser needs. Ono’s diary — Help a House and Hearts have Wings — Avilyn’s diary — Community Fundraisers - Focus on Wings' Silverwork & Photography — No widget, use PayPal to donate for local materials/equipment expenses ($20,000 to go): wingsoftaos@newmex.com
arabian profile page — catch up from months of unemployment. PayPal: arabean at att dot net
BFSkinner profile page — encouragement & medical/dental bills (immediate target for dental bills — $2,045 to go). Multiple/worsening health and dental issues and Depression. Find a recent diary & give some moral support. Gofundme: www.gofundme.com… PayPal: houstonbfskinner at netscape dot net.
Dem profile page — Depression and PTSD. Underemployed. Needs financial help (food, Rx), social services in San Antonio, TX area and moral support. PayPal robertallenproctor4 at gmail dot com.
Fineena — (landlord selling house, has to move by end of May, also health and car issues — kossack Fineena in need - home, dogs, car, health — $2,000 — $2,500 for moving, $1,250 for car, $750 for health tests = $4,000 — $4,500 goal but moving is Priority One so $1,700 — $2,200 to go) PayPal palskaren at aol dot com — blessings on eeff for offering his truck/trailer to help with the move and reducing the monetary need. Charlotte area volunteers for help with packing and moving can reduce it further.
jtg profile page — (car priority) — Safety things (airbag sensor, defroster fan, and tires) probably about $1,800. Also help paying out the transmission replacement (garage is letting him do monthly payments — $1,300 to go. Widget www.gofundme.com/… • PayPal
jtg — (home) cancer survivor, late father’s caregiver (15 years). Substitute teacher since mid-Oct. School holidays/vacation mean no subbing. May pay gap help. www.geofundme.com/… • PAYPAL Kos Katalogue vendor (links below) augmenting substitute teaching with graphic art sales.
MaureenMower widow, unemployed, needs help with living expenses and car (for a job in her area) — $2,300 to go — need help for pets, car, housing — PayPal: MOELOE1126 at AOL dot COM
pale cold — partially disabled/chronic pain — estranged husband (separated-divorce in progress) defaulted on a loan endangering her home — can’t afford a lawyer and doesn’t qualify for Legal Aid, but she’s been filing everything she and her friends can think of to give her a chance to deal with his debt or sell the house privately. If the Courts can’t/wont’ help she, her 3 daughters (adult daughter provides childcare so she can work), and dog need help getting another home. ($8,800 to go) — thank you and some upper updates — gofundme save my home — PayPal paypal.me/palecold
slksfca profile page — Vet bills — This phase completed but Dixie was back in the hospital this week. PayPal: slksfca at gmail dot com & Dixie's medical expenses
snoopydawg profile page — 5-year denied-claim work injury, belated surgery failed: permanent damage, can’t work, chronic and acute pain. SSDI (augmented with photo sales — see Kos Katalogue link below), needs to refinance mortgage so help to catch up. [Companion dogs needed help. Of course she asked for them first.] Widget Charlie & Abby's vet bills (and the mortgage) Vet bills met, $500 left on mortgage refinance.
AndyT profile page friend Jill — DK makes disabled woman cry - with joy — lives in an RV in a trailer park with her son and dogs. The RV was shot up as “collateral damage” in a gang fight and needs to be repaired or replaced — goal total $7,500 — $5,542 to go. widget — RV repair or replace
michelewin profile page friend Kay — 70s, widow, homeless living in a truck with her cats, stuff in storage. phone (w/permission) 916.559.0908 2/24/17 Update: per michelewin: Kay wants to move from Sacramento to CO where her son lives. Estimate $7K for truck, gas etc., and storage fees — gofundme Kay Allen move to CO ($6,690 to go)
scamperdo has a temporary “shared” space so won’t be homeless but is still looking for an efficiency or “mother-in-law” contained unit in Waltham, MA. If you know of such, please kosmail scamperdo.
Then see if meeting our needs and wishes can do double duty in bringing revenue to the small businesses of our Kossack community — or share out the artisan/vendor site links to folks you know who are interested in that type of work (and help get/keep the artisans and vendors off the fundraiser list):
Physical expressions of love can lift the spirit — especially from folks we know like our Kossack artisans and vendors. Our dollar vote is heard even when our ballot vote isn’t so double-duty cast that dollar vote for Kossacks and other small business communities and lift spirits, too.
From Pootie Pads to wearable and frameable designs to jewelry to web design to decluttering services — gifts from the heart are easy to find in the Kos Katalogue.
KOSSACK ARTISANS/VENDORS — JUST SAY YES to KOS BUSINESSES
asterkitty — to assist with moving costs, special painting sale is here. Big discounts: alexalev.com…
edrie — jewelry — Edrie's Shop
elenacarlena —original cartoons to hang, wear, or drink from — www.zazzle.com… www.teepublic.com… or kosmail to commission a cartoon.
Sara R & Winglion — Pootie (cat) & Woozle (dog) snuggle/sleeping/play Pads —
pootiepad.com…
Wings — NDN Silver wingssilverwork.com , Aji’s & Wings’ basic income. Hover on Galleries, then on Silverwork or Photography or Other Artists for click-links to see breathtaking work. Use Contact for email to commission or purchase. (Donations to help build house, see above.)
Full Kos Katalogue. 2016 Kos Katalogue is OPEN FOR YEAR-ROUND BIZNESS.
Departments of the 2016-17 Kos Katalog — by mettle fatigue
- Arts & Craftwork
- Books, Cookbooks, Magazines, Bookshops & Publishing
- Childrens', Craft Supplies, & Yarn: Knit, Crochet, Weaving
- Clothing & Jewelry
- Painting, Drawing, Digital Art, Photography, Sculpture
- Food-Drink-Garden & House-Home & Pet
- Service & Stationary Depts w/ Nasty Woman Merchandise Poll
- Software, Web Design, Music (CDs, DVDs) and Misc. Depts
Then pass The Fundraiser Word to the wider world to bring more help than we alone can give:
bfskinner — (dental bills — $2,045) www.gofundme.com/…
jtg — (car repair — $1,300) www.gofundme.com…, (May “cushion”) — www.gofundme.com/...
MaureenMower — (unemployed, needs car, help w/ living expenses — $2,300 to go) need help for pets, car, housing
pale cold — (save house if poss, new if not — ex’s default, house being auctioned 4/27 — $8,800 to go) gofundme save my home PayPal paypal.me/palecold
snoopydawg — (refinance mortgage — $500) www.youcaring.com…
michelewin’s friend Kay — Kay Allen move to CO ($6,690 to go)
AndyT’s friend Jill — (shot-up home RV repair or replace — $5,542) — RV repair or replace
jan4insight Patreon site — www.patreon.com/… (FYI — Patreon is like ActBlue recurring donations ($5 a month helps) for artisans instead of politicians.)
And give other kinds of caring support to our community as the needs arise
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Community Transcripts Project (CTP) 2thanks admin (link to profile page); transcripts are critical for those who can’t listen to speeches (time, internet access, physical ability) and vital for everyone in understanding/responding to speeches as they give the ability to check sections against each other, other speeches, declarations, laws, or even the constitution itself; transcripts are time-consuming and thus costly; community fundraising allows CTP to do them and make them available at little or no further charge. PayPal address: communitytranscriptsproject.dk@gmail.com (current goal $500)
Helping. That’s what community does. E pluribus unum — one out of many. WE, the people.
Only strong together.