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So I’m about 75% ready for the move. I need a few more essentials purchased and I’m gonna use part of my paycheck this week to do that. I also need to figure out if I want to pay for professional movers, hire amateurs for cheap, or get my friend to help. I checked a few prices as currently the cheapest would be $300 which I can possibly swing.
I think after the move, I’m gonna take a few weeks to settle in, then reach back out to PSL and start to really focus on organizing. Like do it for real this time. I don’t have much else really going on besides my current coding project, but that can be done here and there as I feel up to it. Talking with an anarchist friend who will possibly be onboarded in some capacity, or I will be working in coalition, but we have a few ideas brewing for where PSL can show up. We want to do a tennant’s union on his block since it’s a poor neighborhood that is all owned by one landleach. We want to work on a committee for low income kitchen staff(basically a cook’s union). And the one I’m really interested in is a union for the unhoused. We have both been working with the unhoused for years and are in coalition with the city’s only real all-volunteer low barrier shelter. If we could get 5-10 people involved in each of those, that would be a hell of a start but that’s a big ask. I think I need to start doing public speaking to get people riled up.
Mental health update: numb
Over the next couple of months, I’m probably gonna use this space as a quasi-diary of sorts. It helps to get my thoughts out and y’all are so supportive.
While I do think you could use a break still, I fully understand that desire to get organizing (again) in earnest. I love the idea of a union for the unhoused, like holy shit, that is so overdue. I really hope you, your anarchist friend, and anyone who feels like helping can make your projects work. I’m rooting for you, Roux
As to the mental health update: numb is different to what you had before, so I’m just gonna say, you are going through it, an this shit hurts and takes time. I believe in you, and I believe you will get better. Apart from your projects being a good distraction, I also think being surrounded by new/different people can help you with your personal situation. Humans do have that kind of effect sometimes :) I wish you all the best, and please do use the mega/hexbear as a diary. We’re here to listen and support you