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Support Peter, Kaniku& other Cleveland organizers, organized by Raechel J.
Support Peter, Kaniku& other Cleveland organizers
This GoFundMe will help several Cleveland-area organizers get through
some severe or chronic health emergencies. The funds raised will be
shared between various individuals and an organization to help them meet
their needs and remain active in our movements.
Health emergencies and chronic health problems are increasingly becoming
a part of our daily life, and we need to find ways to organize support
and mutual aid not only for our movements to be inclusive but also to
face the realities of an increasingly unhealthy world and an
increasingly mercenary, poisonous, and exploitative system.
Some of the people being supported by this fundraiser prefer to remain
anonymous, but here are the bios and calls for support from three of the
beneficiaries.
Peter G just got diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain tumor. He is
scheduled for a major brain surgery that comes with a lengthy recovery
period, and after that will probably go through a program of chemo or
radiation, and after that frequent scans because of the possibility of
recurrence. He doesn’t have insurance and is reliant on financial
assistance, which requires him to remain at a poverty-level income.
Additionally, he lost his main job driving a truck because of the
seizure risk associated with the tumor. Recovery from neurosurgery and
chemo or other treatments will probably also prevent him from working
over much of the coming months.
Peter had also been supporting a friend and comrade in prison, as well
as a family member with chronic health problems. A part of his share of
this fundraiser will go to supporting those two people, and any other
funds that would put him over the limit for receiving financial
assistance will instead go to solidarity campaigns, for people in prison
or facing charges.
Peter is a lifelong anarchist writer and organizer who recently moved to
Cleveland. His recent books include The Solutions Are Already Here:
Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below (Pluto Press),
Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation (AK Press),
and the scifi novella Hermetica (Detritus Books). He writes a newsletter
at
Surviving Leviathan with Peter Gelderloos | Substack
Kaniku Nu'kezi is a non-binary nomadic freedom fighter and former
protest organizer/strategist/public speaker currently based out of
Cleveland, OH. They are multiply disabled, immunocompromised, struggling
with Long Covid, and identify as politically MAD/insane. They have been
dealing with food and housing insecurity and unemployment for 2 years
(in part due to state repression and legal red tape) and need help
getting to a place of stability. Their goal is to purchase a used, well
running RV with their disabled partner so that they can expand their
capacity for community organizing again and return to a place of
financial stability that enables them to resume supporting numerous long
term mutual aid requests from various Queer, Disabled Black and
Indigenous freedom fighters, artists, and revolutionaries.
They can be followed @SoulAlchemySchool on Instagram (formerly
@AbolitionActually) where they are preparing to launch a new multimedia
zine inspired resource for values based personal development, spiritual
growth and political education during times of social, economic and
emotional upheaval. (You can look up media coverage of their former work
including an interview with DemocracyNow by searching "Lilith Sinclair"
which is their former public name from before they came out as
nonbinary.)
Cleveland Pandemic Response will also be a beneficiary of this
fundraiser. CPR, which began in March 2020, facilitates mutual aid
shares throughout Northeast Ohio. Our cooperation is built on the
understanding we are all interconnected and impacted by Covid-19.
Cleveland Pandemic Response is a non-hierarchical mutual aid group
mobilizing pandemic-related resources and information– food, masks,
hygiene items, diapers, pantry boxes, reproductive and other health care
items, and cleaning supplies– to families and individuals in the greater
Cleveland area.