The infrastructure of survival
My people are on the streets again. Jakarta, Bandung, North Sumatra, South Sumatra; students have been tearing down police barricades since 12 June, naming what they are watching in real time: a government letting a 32% fuel price hike become the benchmark for a wider cost-of-living crisis while spending 268 trillion rupiah on programmes riddled with corruption, expanding military presence into civilian institutions, resurrecting the logic of dwifungsi ABRI that Reformasi was supposed to have buried in 1998. The protest name this time is “Heading to Bankrupt Indonesia.” Precise, not dramatic.
I am watching this from inside Indonesia, which means I am watching it from inside the same economic conditions. The rupiah is at 18,000 to the dollar. Staple prices are up. The state is not going to redistribute its way out of this; it is going to extract its way through it, and ordinary people are going to absorb that extraction in their bodies, their budgets, their capacity to stay housed and fed and connected.
This is not a situation unique to Indonesia. It is the situation. Everywhere the state decides that certain people’s survival is not a priority, the same infrastructure gap opens. And the only thing that fills it is people deciding to fill it for each other.
That is what this roundup is.
The actual practice of showing up for each other inside conditions none of us individually created and none of us can individually fix. From each according to their capacity, to each according to their needs; this week, as every week, in the small and material and unglamorous form of moving money toward people who need it.
Below is this week’s list. Some requests are urgent, some are overdue, and all of them need movement. Show up however possible, financially or by amplifying so someone who can give financially finds the request. Both matter.
✨Mutual Aid Roundup✨
@QuyetPawz @francesdanger @edendestroyer @psychoalpastor @olliethewobbly @ellespeaks @beckermatic @sparkshocker @wrzky @OshunThaGreat
✨Palestinian Campaign Spotlight✨
Help Mother of 3 Ola Alashqer
Ola’s child is battling a severe, worsening skin condition with a persistent high fever. No diagnosis yet, no treatment. She is in a race against time. Redistribute what you can and move this further than her reach alone.
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Help Mai Support Her Family, The Gazan Children, & More
Meta banned Mai’s Instagram again—for posting children, food, a tent, a mother trying to stay alive. Meta funds the weapons and silences the survivors. She is on Mastodon now. Redistribute here, where the silencing cannot follow.
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