Here’s what we do and why we do it: Humpday — because we’re smack dab in the middle of the work week and getting over that hump sure looks sweet. But for some folks in this community, the humps they need to get over are far more daunting than looking forward to the weekend. That is where Helping comes in. Helping Humpday is specifically about generating community support for struggling Kossacks who find themselves facing an imminent financial need like keeping the lights on, avoiding eviction, getting to work, paying medical bills.
Our goal is to publicize the Community Needs List and other fundraisers for needy Kossacks as widely across the site as possible. Our motto is simple: many hands make light work.
True Moral Courage
I don't usually do anything overtly political here on Helping Humpday as that isn’t our raison d’etre. However, today is just too sad a day in our democracy. Time to remind ourselves what true moral courage is. Courage is speaking out for folks who can’t speak for themselves. It is speaking truth to power and damn the consequences. Courage isn’t Senators so concerned about their petty political careers and “retribution” by an out-of-control mentally-disturbed POTUS that they are willing to abrogate their Constitutional oversight responsibilities and then find disingenuous reasons to justify their cowardly actions.
Similarly, hate mongering, lying, and spreading conspiracy theories are not the hallmarks of “freedom,” much less of courage. So, without further comment, here is a pictorial salute to a real hero who actually deserved the Medal of Freedom as well as our heartfelt admiration and appreciation and so much more. Someone who has spent a lifetime — since college days — literally putting his body on the line, being jailed and beaten, being harassed and maligned, to help secure and defend the rights of the historically disenfranchised.
This is not to take away from other Democratic leaders who have shown courage, including Adam Schiff, Nancy “He shredded the truth so I shredded his speech” Pelosi, or the vote of Doug Jones. However, this one is personal. There have been only a handful of leaders in my lifetime that I can say I loved. LBJ was one. Hubert Humphrey. John Lewis is another. I genuinely love this man.
Support Someone on the Community Needs List
Consider A Donation To a Kossack In Need. Few of us can be like John Lewis. But we can do a bit to make our world a kinder and more just place, or just ease someone’s burden a bit. The folks on the Community Needs List are struggling. Some need help with a one-time emergency. Others have been have struggled for months. They are working towards financial independence and self-sufficiency, but still need some help. We can be the warm hearth and kind hearts of comfort for our fellow Kossacks. Your small gift can help a family or individual find stability for another month in the face of a crisis. Even $3, or $5, or $10 helps. Thank you.
Also, tip, rec, comment here and in the individual diaries. That helps spread the word.
Weekly Community Needs List
Community Needs List as of 1/31/20. Fundraisers who want a diary to be or stay on the list: PLEASE kosmail requests and donations received to njm5000 by Thursday evening to be included on the Friday morning updated list.
Living on the financial edge—need help? Check out the Helping Directories before your next emergency.
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portation Fundraisers
JTG—needs help with January expenses for all the time he lost as a substitute teacher during the holiday school break (pls he had surgery!). He needs $1200 920 160. DIary is here: January Needs Update Links where you can help: Patreon • GoFundMe • Ko-Fi • PayPal (James at JamesThomasGreen.com). ALMOST THERE — PLEASE HELP JTG REACH HIS GOAL
SNOOPYDAWG—needs $9,500 …. 3392 3342. Last fall, with the help of the community, saved snoopy’s house from imminent foreclosure. With time so short, two kossacks stepped in with loans just as the house was to go to auction! Original Diary is here. This week she posted a new diary to raise the rest of these funds to repay the generous loans: Foreclosure Update. Please help us repay these generous Kossacks.
PayPal snoopydawg at earthlink dot net and www.gofundme.com/…
You can also purchase snoopydawg’s photos at
www.midlifeartistsunlimited.org/…
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Medical and Veterinary Fundraisers
SCAMPERDO—needs $1450 266 000 to replace essential lost driving income due to a mixup re DL renewal. Diary is here. Paypal www.paypal.com/… NEED MET — WOOT!! Here’s her TY diary: Kossacks, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generosity and support!
MICHELEWIN—needs help with medical bills. Fundraiser goal is $4,365 4330 4315 4290 4190± Diary: Dear Medical People I'm not Made of Money!
PayPal is michelewilson327 at gmail dot com. And she is just out of the hospital AGAIN!!! What a way to start 2020. SHE FEELS DESPONDENT & SCARED. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN.
SaraR and winglion (Ann), the Community Quilters, have been working hard producing healing quilts for Dixiecollie (delivered!), JGraham (being quilted now), and for WildIrish’s sister Robin, who was hit by a car. Despite this activity at their workshop, the sisters need help with vet bills of $400 spent to get their four cats vaccinated and licensed, and the bill has put them behind again. Here is a PayPal link for general donation to the Community Quilt Project, Here is a link to the Pootie Pad website if you need a catnip toy for your cat or calming pad for your dog.