[politics] Alright, let's do this.

[kaberett]

Here's a thing I'm finding helpful: yes, the Tories won a horrendous parliamentary majority, but in terms of vote share they lost out, nationally, to centre/left parties. Here's another thing I'm finding helpful: my new MP is a Kurdish woman, replacing a Change UK MP whose politics made me, in several respects, deeply uncomfortable; and in Enfield Southgate Bambos Charalambous kept his seat. The Electoral Reform Society also gives me hope. All of these things are concrete, statistical reminders about what proportion of the population of my country actually considers me disposable.

Nevertheless, we're still living in a political reality featuring alarming parallels to 1930s Germany. We've had a politician murdered by far-right terrorists; ongoing violations of the human rights of disabled people; TERFs (here's your connection); a government elected with a manifesto targetting Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (more).

In the first instance, I'm wanting to funnel my resources toward groups already under attack. Here's a starting point from me.

Organisations to give money to (many of which you can also volunteer with)

• the Roma Support Group, who do a variety of work nationally, including advocacy, education and research
  
• the Belfast Trans Resource Centre (Northern Ireland)
  
• Action for Trans Health
  
• Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants
  
• Benefits and Work, who I have absolutely relied on for every benefits application I've made
  
• Liberty, who work for human rights
  
• HOPE not hate, who work to counter fascist and racist politics in a high-impact, targetted fashion
  
• QueerCare Network

Petition- and letter-writing

• 38degrees
  
• SumOfUs
  
• Amnesty International
  

Hosting

• Refugees at Home
  
• Abortion Support Network (within a 30-minute commute of bpas Richmond or Streatham, MSI Brixton or Ealing, or NUPAS Kingston)
  

Further resources

• a nice round-up of trans resources
  
• The Social Review list of volunteering opportunities
  
• The Graun's suggestions
  
• spoonlessactivists

Comments

[alexwlchan]

Thank you for putting together this list. <3

[kaberett]

♥

[booksarelife]

I’m going to poke at some of these and see if there’s anything I can do to help from all the way over here. Also, yay for your new MP!

[redbird]

You might want to take a look at thisfinecrew, which has a mostly American membership and thus tends to collect/share suggestions for things that can be done over here.

[booksarelife]

Thank you!

[forthwritten]

Can I also suggest QueerCare Network (https://queercare.network/)? They do advocacy, community care and protest support.

[kaberett]

Thank you!

[katzenfabrik]

Thank you for this list. Is it okay to share on Twitter?

[kaberett]

Yep. <3

[katzenfabrik]

Merci!

[ewt]

Also shared on Mastodon on basis of this permission.

[kaberett]

<3

[redbird]

OK to link from thisfinecrew?

[kaberett]

Yep!

[cloudsinvenice]

Excellent list, and thank you for including the Belfast Trans Resource Centre - they are doing brilliant work here and I'm never sure how well known our local orgs are in the wider UK.

Have added you.

[kaberett]

<3 we relocated to Belfast temporarily and I was DELIGHTED by them.

[kaberett]

(Because, you know, marginalised groups in broader community contexts that are absolutely going to be fucked over by... everything... also very much deserve shout-outs.)

[sfred]

<3

[ironed_orchid]

<3

[fyreharper]

<3

[cynthia1960]

Signal boosted this over at my place, and joined thisfinecrew. I was really inactive here after the 2016 US election, so I missed seeing that community. Looks like there will be a UK group soon.

[dolorosa_12]

Here via thisfinecrew. Thank you for putting together this list — these are some excellent starting points. Is it all right to suggest other organisations in the comments here as well? As a migrant to the UK, I'm very concerned about what (worse) things are to come, and there are a lot of organisations doing good work on migrants' and refugees' rights.

[kaberett]

Yes, please do - I've linked https://www.facebook.com/groups/Credit4Refugees/ elsewhere and should add it in here, but am v pro more suggestions.

[dolorosa_12]

Right, here are three suggestions:

The 3 Million advocates for the rights of EU citizens living in the UK (which, contrary to popular belief, are in no way secure).

British In Europe advocates for the rights of British citizens living elsewhere in the EU, which after Brexit, will no longer be uniform and based on EU free movement rights, but rather vary according to the non-EU immigration policies of each individual EU country.

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants does really good work for all migrants in the UK, including advocacy, legal advice, and supporting people made vulnerable by the hostile environment.

[cesy]

Thank you for pulling this together, it includes a couple I hadn't heard of before.

[lebannen]

Thank you for this post, it's got a few tabs still open for possible ongoing stuff and things, and has also got me to finally actually set up the regular donation to an organisation I had been meaning to support for a while (the local branch could only accept cheques! via the post! this does not suit my modern lifestyle!).

[notreallystars]

Got here via thisfinecrew, thank you so much for compiling this list!

[kaberett]

You are very welcome!

[horselizard]

thank you for this! <3

editorial note: your link to The Graun's suggestions is missing a single "s" from the end of the url (it ends "fake-new" instead of "fake-news") :)

[randomling]

This is a great post, thank you!

Going to try and turn some of these into actions on Spoonless Activists, if that's okay with you? <3

[kaberett]

Yes <3