Author: rhieinnon

Blogroll, Mutual Aid, Resistance Strategies, Systems Change

When Discomfort Becomes Your Compass: Distinguishing Discomfort from Danger in the Work of Resistance

rhieinnon

We've been talking about dismantling systems and building new ones. About how the current administration is inadvertently giving us the freedom to create what we've always envisioned. About how we learn our neighbors' names and needs as the first acts of resistance. But there's something deeper we need to address: the internal work that makes… Continue reading When Discomfort Becomes Your Compass: Distinguishing Discomfort from Danger in the Work of Resistance

Mutual Aid, Resistance Strategies, Systems Change

Your Neighbors’ Names and Needs Are Your First Acts of Resistance

rhieinnon

I want you to try something: Close your eyes and picture someone experiencing homelessness in your neighborhood. What did you see? A faceless silhouette sleeping under a bridge? A generic cardboard sign? Or did you see Craig, who sleeps under the 5th Street bridge because it's safer than the shelter, who carries a blue backpack… Continue reading Your Neighbors’ Names and Needs Are Your First Acts of Resistance

Series Overview, Systems Change

Building New Tables: A Seven-Part Series (Accelerated Schedule)

rhieinnon

When they dismantle systems, we don't just rebuild—we reimagine. And we don't wait. This seven-part series explores what happens when we stop reforming broken systems and start building alternatives outside institutional frameworks. As federal contracts disappear and technical assistance is dismantled, we're facing not just a crisis, but an opportunity to create what we've always… Continue reading Building New Tables: A Seven-Part Series (Accelerated Schedule)

Mutual Aid, Resistance Strategies, Systems Change

They’re Dismantling Systems, We’re Building New Ones

rhieinnon

I keep hearing the same refrain in meetings, messages, and those late-night calls when nobody can sleep: "I don't know what to do. I'm scared. What happens next?" The fear is real. I feel it too. Federal contracts canceled. Technical assistance dismantled. Years of progress seemingly erased with a signature from people who've never slept… Continue reading They’re Dismantling Systems, We’re Building New Ones

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When They Take the Funding, We Build New Tables

rhieinnon

A call to action for those who understand that systems change doesn't end when the funding does The news has spread through our networks like wildfire: federal contracts canceled, technical assistance dismantled, years of progress threatened. As someone who recently lost all remaining federal contracts myself, I find myself at a crossroads familiar to many.… Continue reading When They Take the Funding, We Build New Tables

anti racism, homelessness, race equity

A Journey to the Precipice

rhieinnon

Because what it meant was, the real life experiences of real life human beings were not only informing the work we were doing, but constructing a new approach. And as we evolved and our team grew, so did our scope. Because people most impacted were at the design table, and so shaped what we would create.