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my dad and i are going to DC in july. he wants to protest for ovarian cancer awareness. i'll be doing that while also standing with BLM to defund the police. the two issues meet where the annual US police budget is $115 billion + ovarian cancer research receives only $35 million.
each of these issues is important enough on its own, but right now my family wants me to focus on saving my mom's life + raising awareness. i intend to do both anyway though, because we have the means to fund specialized research for many diseases, but instead we fund violence.
we need to defund and demilitarize the police + allocate more toward underfunded cancer research and treatment. my mother is facing her 3rd bout of cancer right now. all we can do is stave it off until there's a better treatment. we can do better than this.
by defunding and demilitarizing the police we wouldn't just be reducing police violence toward black communities. we could also direct more government spending toward saving the lives of our sick and dying. we could provide communities in need with better resources and treatment.
i have a gofundme for my mom, i'm still figuring out how the site works, but i'll drop it in this thread when i have it figured out.
my family is hurting right now, + while i'm in DC i want to speak on as many issues as i can. rn i'm focusing on the 2 that mean the most to me.
my family is hurting right now, + while i'm in DC i want to speak on as many issues as i can. rn i'm focusing on the 2 that mean the most to me.
postscript: i'm not posting any of this to detract from either of these issue. we can't afford to stay in DC for very long, so i only have about a day to make a stand for both issues. i can only do what i can in about 1.5 days, and i need to make it count. thanks for reading.
sorry it took so long to update, but since we're days away from heading to DC i figured now would be the best time. please help our family if you can, share if you're not able, we hate asking for charity and we completely understand times are hard.
more info is available further up in this thread. it took so long bc i've been really reluctant to ask this amount, but it's not likely my mom will be getting on disability, and she could rlly use even an extra $50-100 cushion for the coming months if she can't return to school
full-disclosure, my grammar sucks in the gofundme description because was really drunk and emotional when i wrote it back in June. i've corrected the worst bits but i probably missed some, i'll get to those too be patient
