Abundance Mentality + the Buy Nothing Project = 🙌🏽
Another day, another toy I wanted for my kid but refused to order snagged for free.
If you're not part of this movement, you're missing out!
https://buynothingproject.org/find-a-group
#buynothing
Abundance Mentality + the Buy Nothing Project = 🙌🏽
Another day, another toy I wanted for my kid but refused to order snagged for free.
If you're not part of this movement, you're missing out!
https://buynothingproject.org/find-a-group
#buynothing
I've used upcycle and freecyxle in the past. This looks like a far more developed project but philosophically, I have questions about anything centering on Facebook or reparations for that matter.
"The second section of this page holds a link to the Community Agreement created by an independent Equity Team made up of Buy Nothing admins to serve BN Groups using Facebook's Private Groups platform, and also a description of the process involved with the creation of the Equity Team's Community Agreement....
At the end of 2019, an Equity Team was created to examine this goal. The Buy Nothing Equity Team is led by DiDi Delgado who is a local Buy Nothing Project leader in New York. DiDi is an author, international activist and anti-racist educator from Boston, MA. The team is also led by Katherine Valenzuela Parsons who was a Buy Nothing Global Team member (while that Team was active), and anti-racist advocate originally from Texas but now leads a local Buy Nothing group in central Virginia. Katherine is also the director of Decolonize Abundance, a reparations and food justice project co-founded by Didi and Katherine. With Decolonize Abundance, "a new idea was born in the gift economy world with a focus on creating a space where people give on the basis of reparations to Black organizers, Black families, and Black communities. Especially in these times, they agreed that now more than ever, a new path needed to be paved in gift economy communities via mutual aid, reparations, and advocacy groups." (from the Decolonize Abundance "Who We Are" page). Visit the Decolonize Abundance website and follow Decolonize Abundance on Facebook to join this important movement. Daria Kelsey from Tacoma, WA who was also a Buy Nothing Global team member (while that Team was active) later joined as an Equity Team lead to assist in the vast efforts necessary to do this difficult work. The Equity Team consists of Buy Nothing Project group members, local admins, and people who were on the Development Team and the Global Team while those Teams were active, who are from various places around the world. Every attempt has been made to center the voices of the members of the Equity Team and many other local admins and members who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and other systemically oppressed people in our larger society."
It sucks that it's on Facebook but it works beautifully in my neighborhood and general area because so many people participate. People just post a photo of what they have and people comment and you DM to arrange picking it up.