24/06/2021
共筆生產: 視覺練習 -2
更自由的食物 | 武雨濛
紀錄城市中的自發組織免費食物-02
“互助項目揭露了人們並不擁有他們所需之物這個殘酷現實,並提出我們可以協力解決這個不公義的現象。美國6、70年代的黑豹黨生存計畫可算是當中最有名的例子,這個計畫提供免費早餐、救護車、診所、長者接載等等服務,還有一所旨在為兒童提供解放教育課程的學校。黑豹黨通過創造人們得以滿足基礎需求的空間,從而建立關於大家所面臨的處境的共享分析,來歡迎人們加入解放鬥爭。與其在責備窮人尤其是黑人窮人的文化中,為著不能餵飽自己的孩童而感到羞恥,參與黑豹黨免費早餐計畫的人得到的不只是食物,還有機會參與建立有關黑人貧窮問題的共享分析。計畫不僅滿足了實際需要,還打破了污名和疏離,讓人們能夠得著力量,一起努力作出改變。” - Mutual Aid, Dean Spade
紀錄你在香港找到免費早餐、午餐或者晚餐的時刻,必須是在家居環境以外的,由個人或團體提供給鄰居,社區廚房所做的免費食物,或者是自發組織的免費食物項目。請拍照紀錄你在香港找到免費食物的時刻。
*互助並不是做慈善:
“慈善事業和社會服務框框主導了一般有關何謂支援危機中的有需要人士的主流理解。可互助並不是做慈善。慈善、援助、救濟、服務這些字眼在不同的語境下使用,都是表示富人或以及政府為窮人生存提供的支援。慈善的模式鼓勵了貧窮源於不道德的這種想法,只有能夠證明自身道德價值的人才值得被幫助。與慈善隨之而來的還包括與道德框架相關的資格要求,例如是否清醒、虔誠、遵守宵禁、參與職業培訓或家長課程、是否與警方合作、識別孩子的親子關係等。慈善事業日益私有化,並外包給龐大的非牟利團體。非牟利團體爭逐款項來處理社會問題。精英捐款者決定哪些策略可以得到資金,把自己的錢放到這些資助他們的寵物項目的基金之中,保護他們的錢避過賦稅,可是這些項目大多與窮人無關。即使是旨在解決貧窮問題的非牟利組織,大部分也是由白人精英營運的。非牟利化再現了贏家和輸家之間的反民主種族主義和殖民關係,以至是其中予取予攜的剝削性經濟安排。互助的項目直面挑戰,避免落入慈善模式……”- Mutual Aid, Dean Spade
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Free food in the city | Cici Wu
Documenting self-organizing free food in the city 02
“Mutual aid projects expose the reality that people do not have what they need and propose that we can address this injustice together. The most famous example in the United States is the Black Panther Party’s survival programs, which ran throughout the 1960s and 1970s, including a free breakfast program, free ambulance program, free medical clinics, a service offering rides to elderly people doing errands, and a school aimed at providing a rigorous liberation curriculum to children. The Black Panther programs welcomed people into the liberation struggle by creating spaces where they could meet basic needs and build a shared analysis about the conditions they were facing. Instead of feeling ashamed about not being able to feed their kids in a culture that blames poor people, especially poor Black people, for their poverty, people attending the Panthers’ free breakfast program got food and a chance to build shared analysis about Black poverty. It broke stigma and isolation, met material needs, and got people fired up to work together for change.”
Document the moment of free breakfast, lunch, or dinner in the city that is shared beyond a family setting, food provided by an individual or a group to neighbors, free food made by the community kitchen, and self-organized free food programs. Please take a picture of the moment you find free food in Hong Kong.
* Mutual Aid is Not Charity:
“Charity and social services frameworks dominate mainstream understanding of what it means to support people in crisis. Mutual aid is not charity. Charity, aid, relief, and services are terms used in various contexts to denote the provision of support for survival to poor people where that support is governed by rich people and/or the government. Charity models promote the idea that most poverty is a result of immorality and that only those who can prove their moral worth deserve help. Charity comes with eligibility requirements that relate to these moral frameworks of deservingness, such as sobriety, piety, curfews, participation in job training or parenting courses, cooperation with the police, or identifying the paternity of children. Charity is increasingly privatized and contracted out to the massive nonprofit sector. Nonprofits compete for grants to address social problems. Elite donors get to decide what strategies should be funded and then protect their money from taxation by storing it in foundations that fund their pet projects, most of which have nothing to do with poor people. Even nonprofits that do purport to address poverty are mostly run by white elites. Nonprofitization has reproduced antidemocratic racist and colonial relationships between the winners and losers of extractive, exploitative economic arrangements. Mutual aid projects face the challenge of avoiding the charity model…”
Mutual Aid, Dean Spade
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