I am writing from Indonesia, where I refuse to make survival conditional on someone having enough savings to endure an emergency. Public responsibility and mutual aid belong in the same conversation. We can demand the resources people deserve while moving what we have towards those asking now. Read the appeals, contribute directly, and carry an original request into a circle that can help fund it.
Military vehicles near Monas, fences around Jakarta's malls, officials insisting it's all Independence Day rehearsal and not a crackdown in waiting. A disabled Indonesian Muslim woman writing from Jakarta traces the fencing back to dwifungsi ABRI, the US-backed Cold War doctrine still shaping how Indonesia disciplines its own people, and connects it to the same logic running Gaza's occupation and Washington's deals with Tehran. The people named in this week's requests need that support regardless.
Jakarta fenced two malls, then took the fences down days later without explanation. Five of the country's top security officials denied any unrest and threatened charges for saying otherwise. A woman in West Java is already under arrest. That same government moved fast enough to make a dictator a national hero within a year of taking office. It has never moved that fast for anyone's rent, anywhere. Below is this week's mutual aid roundup.
If you only track wars by whether missiles are in the air, you'll miss most of what empire does for a living. In this week's article: the Iran strikes, the sanctions, and mutual aid requests from people absorbing the same extraction.
A white woman in Texas told two Muslim women they didn't belong in her Christian country. What Christian? What country? Why should the marginalised convince anyone who wants them harmed that they're peaceful and harmless? This week is charged with end-of-the-month distress on top of regular dehumanisation in the colonised lands. Give what you can, share these requests further than my feed can reach
My people are on the streets again in Indonesia. Everywhere the state decides certain people's survival is not a priority, the same infrastructure gap opens. The only thing that fills it is people deciding to fill it for each other. The full list is at the link. 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.
