We marched in solidarity with the Axis of Resistance
Our second annual People's Pride March ended with 400 people fed. Here's what we built, and how you keep it running.
Whether you found us through our work on Palestine and Iran or through our free food survival program at St. Mary's Park, you already know what we're about.
Last Saturday we held our second annual People's Pride March, against pinkwashing, displacement, and genocide. We built it as a radical alternative to the official Bronx Pride march, the one led by the borough president's office, with cops, zionists and corporations marching in it. We rejected that. Pride began as resistance, and we brought it back to its roots.
This was a militant march. We marched behind the flags of the resistance: Palestine, Hezbollah, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Burkina Faso. We marched as trans, queer, Black, Latino, and Muslim organizers honoring our martyrs and uplifting all resistance to US imperialism, colonialism, Zionism, and occupation, here and everywhere it's being fought. That is not what you usually see in left spaces in the U.S.: a militant, pro-resistance march bringing queer and trans people into the struggle against empire.
Then we went straight to work. The march ended at the distro, everyone put on gloves, and we fed over 400 people and families: jerk chicken, rice, coleslaw, salad, water, and hundreds of bags of free groceries to take home. We don't ask for ID or paperwork, but we do get to know our neighbors, because feeding each other is how we build community.
This is why mutual aid matters. A community that knows how to feed itself, care for itself, and defend itself is a community that is harder to control. That is the point. We are fighting for community sovereignty and self-determination in the South Bronx: the power to meet our own needs without waiting on politicians, nonprofits, or permission from the state.
That is what this is. We meet the immediate material needs of the community and we pair it with revolutionary political education that celebrates resistance. The march and the distro table are the same project. That is what revolutionary love for the people looks like.
None of it runs on grants, nonprofits, or the city. It runs on us.
Our next big goal is a refrigerator. Right now we have no way to store food during the week, which limits us to what we can source and serve in a single day. A fridge lets us store food, stop the waste, and expand what we put on the table. Monthly recurring donors are how we get there, and right now that is what we need most.
Even $10 a month keeps a case of water on the table and gas in the tank for our weekly food and clothing pickups. $25 a month buys ingredients for the meals our volunteers cook from scratch. $50 a month sends bags of groceries home with hundreds of families. Become a monthly donor on Givebutter. Monthly donors are how we plan past next saturday. Whatever you can give matters.
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In solidarity,
Bronx Mutual Aid
Bronx Anti-War
