KC EATS! Launches in Kansas City
Thousands of individuals in our community are already struggling with hunger every day. KCEATS!, a project of the Workers’ Solidarity Fund, was created to fight back against the forces threatening the security of all our neighbors. When job layoffs roll and SNAP funding is cut, we are united as a city through our partners in solidarity, standing together as a multi-organizational unit, moving together to meet our needs where they are.
KCEATS! Solidarity Drive involves food and supply collection through our neighborly business partnerships across the city and KC Metro area, where our volunteers collect supplies for our Solidarity Drive, Friday Nights, 4-7 pm at The Ship, 1221 Union Ave, KCMO 64101. Our efforts to establish funds for community aid and our operational costs, such as gas and storage of goods, include our ongoing Workers’ Solidarity Fund crowdfunding initiative, as well as planned community events and drives. Please consider supporting our workers and our efforts to help them.
We are adding new partners to our team every day and paving a connected, collective way through Kansas City for new partnerships in mutual aid, sounding the alarm that the time is now to come together and stand up for every one of us.
On November 1st, 42 million families will not have SNAP or EBT assistance – that is 100% of everyone who qualifies for SNAP. Including 650,000 Missourians. In the next week, about 30,000 federal employees in the Kansas City area will have gone unpaid in a government shutdown for a full 30 days, leaving many and their families suffering and stranded. Our families, schools, and communities will need help shouldering the additional burden of paying for groceries and housing at all-time highs, driven by corporate greed.
The Workers Solidarity Fund is a vision of a city-wide Solidarity Network, plugged into existing community organizations that are enabled to distribute direct assistance to those most impacted by the modern economic warfare we face daily. All of our workers know the direct impact of a missed paycheck and unstable housing on the communities they serve, because they are the ones who show up every day to help each other with these problems. We are boldly envisioning a People’s Social Security.
It’s nothing short of ridiculous that the people who end up being hurt are ordinary, hard-working Americans who, for their professions, chose to serve their communities and their country. It’s nothing short of disgusting that our tax dollars are being withheld, not being appropriated or processed by Congress to fund our services, purposefully harming the 340 million of us that rely on them. If we try, we can rely on ourselves. If 500,000 people pitched in just $10 per paycheck, there would be enough ongoing support to cover utility bills, emergency needs, and housing payments for any neighbor who needs help. Social Security is a promise that we all make to each other that we are going to be there for one another when times are at their worst. We are boldly envisioning a People’s Social Security.