You know why I don't feel badly for King Colonizer? While millions of Britons face food and fuel poverty, royals in Buckingham Palace will never see a day of extreme hunger or being deprived of basic necessities. If you also even know a little about what this man has done -especially to Princess Diana, he's absolutely heinous.

Let's also not forget the history of the British empire and what it still represents -from it's settler-colonial and imperialistic roots to their huge legacy of violence, forced enslavement, white supremacy, dehumanization, and mass deaths they inflicted across the globe onto many racialized groups of people and communities they deemed 'other' and 'inferior.' The impacts from their exploitation also continue to this day.

Decolonization includes abolishing the monarch.

News that will surely surprise absolutely no-one?

I wish, I had the patience to TRUELY put into words how annoying and depressing it is to be poor and diabetic.

Meet the Robin Hood-style activists ‘shoplifting’ for food banks

“Activists are ‘shoplifting’ from supermarket shelves and dumping the proceeds straight into the stores’ food bank bins in a ‘redistributive action’ to protest the cost of living and the climate crisis.

“Xander Cloudsley, 29, a community food co-ordinator and member of This Is Rigged, the campaign group behind the actions, said: ‘In my job, I’ve seen the lived reality of the cost of living crisis […] while corporate giants like Tesco are boasting astonishing profits year in and year out. I’m taking action because this disparity is sickening and profoundly unfair.’

“The protest comes as food bank usage – already prevalent following austerity – has surged alongside spiralling inflation ...

“The top three supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda – have taken advantage of increased food costs and doubled their profits to £3.32bn in 2021, up 97% on 2019. Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham has called this ‘greedflation’ – something supermarket bosses deny ...

“The group’s ‘Robin Hood’ supermarket action was inspired by British farmers who took milk off supermarket shelves in 2015 to protest the low prices they were getting paid for their produce, and by the French energy workers who send cheap electricity to schools, hospitals and working class communities.”

My glasses are shipped, thank you all! I’m sorry to be in need again but I could really use $30 for a few grocery items, if anyone can spare a dollar or two to help 😊

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so it's tisha b'av and while i get to choose to go hungry for a day, many people don't have the choice. i wanted to mention an app that i use called Share the Meal where you can give money to dozens of different food security programmes across the world. i like it because it uses apple pay, so i don't have to fill in all my details ten times, and because you can donate as much as you want, with the minimum only 65 pence/80 US cents. you can target your donation or leave it general, and it's backed by the UN World Food Programme. okay, bye!

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Anything sum up the state of this country more than foodbanks being shut over the Jubilee weekend?

Reach the stars

Fly a fantasy

The Never Ending Brexit

I am watching that Woodstock 99 documentary and I swear it's one big allegory for what the US (and the UK kinda) is like just on a smaller scale

UK food banks bring in counsellors and private GPs to help exhausted workers

“Britain’s food bank charities are buying in counselling, GP and mental health support services to help staff and volunteers cope with stress and exhaustion triggered by the explosion in demand for emergency food.

“The wellbeing services are a response to a rise in burnout and stress among frontline food bank workers as they deal with expanding workloads and the emotional burden of supporting increasing numbers of destitute and emotionally traumatised clients ...

“Emma Revie, the chief executive of the Trussell Trust, said the £30,000 investment was a response to the ‘unrelenting’ mental and physical effects on its staff ... ‘Most of our volunteers signed up to give out food parcels and be a friendly face spreading some love,’ said Su Parrish, operations director at the Easter Team food bank in Crawley. ‘They didn’t anticipate the level of stress that our clients now exhibit because of the situations they find themselves in.’”

“A voluntary movement that started in earnest in the UK just over a decade ago, and which is still relies predominantly community groups and churches, is having to adjust to an increasingly central and semiformalised social emergency role as austerity cuts to welfare benefits and public services push the human consequences of poverty straight to their door.”

Sales of vegan burger raise £5,000 for cost-of-living meals

Sales of vegan burger raise £5,000 for those cost-of-living meals | Money raised follows partnership between charity and national pub chain. #Veganuary #CostOfLivingCrisis #Hackney

A vegan burger range has helped to raise £5,000 for emergency meals for those in need, thanks to a partnership between a charity and a national pub chain. The money raised follows an agreement last year between Fuller’s and Made in Hackney, a community cookery school and food support charity. The London-based charity has been selling its plant-based burger range across the Fuller’s estate, with…

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