PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)
FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)
Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)
Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( xxx )
The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( xxx )
Wounded Warrior: They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( xxx )
^ Important reminder to NOT waste any money donating to these groups
Reblogging because of the added info about Wounded Warrior.
If you live in central Florida, they are in need of blood donors due to the injured from the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Please google and call around to see what donation centers are open and make a donation today if you are able.
STRAIGHT ALLIES THIS MEANS YOU. Due to discriminatory practices, many in the lgbt+ community are unable to donate. THIS is one way you can show your support by helping us when we are forbidden from helping ourselves.
If you go to oneblood.org you can find places to donate. Please please please donate it you can. The need for blood and plasma is dire
“It is a great app for people who live in areas where the citizens and police don’t work well together”
“It’s like UBER for 911!”
“Soon, 911 will be a thing of the past…”
This new mobile app has been taking the world of activism by storm and cops hate it. It’s calledCell 411 and it’s an app created by activists for activists, but also for anyone who may find himself or herself in an emergency and wanting to call on a group of trusted friends rather than the police.
The app, which is available both on the Android and iOS platforms, allows users to issue various alerts to trusted groups of family members, neighbors and friends. The issue of addressing emergencies without police involvement has come to the forefront of the police brutality debate as many cases have shown police responding to emergencies and shooting dogs, killing suicidal individuals and often not helping those calling for help, but rather harming them or even killing them.
The smartphone app will allow you to create private or public groups in your geographic area and use them as a method to dispatch help in case of emergencies. You can notify your friends when you get a flat tire, get pulled over, have a medical issue or when police are harassing you. You can even stream live video to all your friends and avoid the possibility of the video being deleted by police or evidence being destroyed by a malicious individual.
Once requesting help, your friends will receive your GPS coordinates and turn-by-turn directions to your exact locations; you will be notified of an ETA and how far your friends are.
There is even a “patrol mode” available which even allows you to send what are called “global alerts” meaning that anyone using the app in your area will receive notifications and be able to come and help, should they feel like a Good Samaritan that day.
The best thing about this app is that it is completely free, and the option of allowing users to create “public groups” that anyone could join is very powerful and offers communities the option to self-police. Here are some other examples of the fantastic possibilities this app offers:
For example, a neighborhood watch group of neighbors could create a group and use the app to notify each other in case of emergencies.
Elderly people could use the app to notify all their family members if they are in a particular need.
Activists observing police activity or police abuse could notify all activists in an area and stream video to all their friends.
Volunteer fire fighter departments could encourage their communities to use the app as a free “dispatch” option.
School children could send alerts if they are being bullied or abused in school.
Family members could send alerts when vehicles break down and need urgent help.
There are countless other possibilities for this app, and the creators are clearly aiming the app at users who desire to be self-reliant and not depend on government services and government employees to respond to emergencies.
Help fund our videos!! It takes about $1,500 per video. This includes airfare, rental car, hotel for two from two different coasts. It also includes rental of a 4K camera and better audio equipment. We really want to give these videos the best treatment, because these stories are so valuable. We also need to get to the individuals that want to be interviewed on camera, and they are all over the country (countries now!).
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