Before the birthday and new year of the trees starts at twilight tmrw, here’s my final shoutout to the remaining “Forest Defender Tu Bishvat” fundraisers that I’ve heard about. No doubt there are others! Yay! And yes, there’s still time to donate during your Tu Bishvat to atlsolidarity.org and other funds supporting #StopCopCity and #DefendtheAtlantaForest

Photo 1: Candles and ceramics raffle, $5 per entry, til Feb 6, thx to Miriam. For full info, see @big_bubbe_energy on Instagram 🔥

Photo 2: “wise witnessing oak” prints for donations of $20+, til Feb 15, by Sarah. For full info, see @9_of_wands on Instagram 🌳

Photo 3: “Tu Bishevat Forest Defenders Solidarity Seder and Potluck,” Feb 5, 6 pm, Worcester, MA 🌿

Photo 4: “Tu B’Shevat Seder / Sing to the Trees,” Feb 5, 2:40 pm, Fruit Farm, Slocan Valley, BC, Canada 🍃

Not pictured, but beautiful too!

* “Solidarity Seder and Fundraiser for Atlanta Forest Defenders,” Feb 5, 5 pm, Botanic Ave and 49th, Philadelphia 🌱

* “Small seder in bumfuck Sweden to celebrate trees and their defenders, in solidarity with y’all.” 🌿

* Private fundraising seders in places like Detroit, MI, and Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC 🌱

* Lit table and/as fundraiser on Tu Bishvat weekend, Long Beach, CA 🍃

* Sy Rose is “hosting a tu bishvat seder at Tryon Life Community Farm in Portland, OR, on Monday, Feb 6.” They’ll be talking about and asking for people to give as they are able toward Atlanta,” and will be “sending our love and gay Jewish blessings to the forest defenders and all those grieving the loss of Tortuguita.” 🔥

Whether you’re Jewish or not, the birthday of the trees is the perfect excuse to donate generously to @atlsolfund, especially if you love trees and hate cops!

#TalkToTreesNotToCops
#TzedekForTrees
#TzedekForTort

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Two more “Forest Defender Tu Bishvat” (the birthday of the trees!) fundraisers that you can participate in from your home, or among your favorite trees!

Both are queer, healing, beautiful offerings to raise spirits and much-needed funds to aid @stopcopcity and @defendatlantaforest as well as @atlsolfund.

The first is a seder put on by the good folks with @anarchofeygele69, and you can join in person in Bushwick, NYC, or via zoom. As they note, their seder will include “sensual meditations with fauna, knowledge sharing on environmental direct action, and engaging in the multitude of conversations revolving around Judaism, trees/ecology, and trans/queer anarchism,” plus “creating space to mourn the loss of our dear comrade Tortuguita, a forest defender and friend who was murdered in a tree sit by police.” Suggested donation: $5-50.

The second, crafted by @ayelet___hashachar, is “a Jewish Tree Potion & blessing—for resilience, steadfastness & continued thriving of the Weelaunee forest.” As she further explains, the potion is “tree medicine,” made lovingly from what “frequently grace[s] the forest floors & canopies of that bioregion, [and] some more in the occupied Lenapehoking/Canarsie/nyc landscape, all with Jewish &/or ancestral significance.” Sliding scale per potion & blessing combo: $18-36 (or more!) plus shipping.

You don’t have to be a rad Jewish, trans+queer, and/or anarchist (though all are sacred and lovely) to partake of these fundraisers. You just need to love trees and hate cops!

You can find out lots more juicy and tender details about both of these solidarity fundraisers on the two Instagram accounts mentioned above.

More “Forest Defender Tu Bishvat” offerings to come soon, by or before the new year of the trees on this Sunday.

#TzedekForTrees
#TzedekForTort
#CareNotCops
#ForestsNotFascism

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I’m uplifting three beautiful raffles—and encouraging everyone to buy lots of tickets for each—all raising funds for @atlsolfund and Tort’s family, in love and solidarity with @defendatlantaforest and @stopcopcity.

They are endearing in several ways!

First, all three are in response to my recent call to rad Jews to raise solidarity funds via a “Forest Defender Tu Bishvat,” which is our beloved “birthday (or new year) of the trees”—this year on February 5-6. It warms my Jewish anarchist heart that folks rose to this last-minute ask and opened their hearts so wide, including because I know it takes time, thought, work, and care to pull something together.

More important, all three raffles feature powerful and gorgeous hand-made/designed/crafted forms of art aimed at mending this world—and all stretch back to embrace ancestral wisdom, especially related to ecological lifeways and healing.

Even more, all three embody care—of humans and the nonhuman world.

They all set their raffle ticket price at $5 per entry, taking care to make their fundraisers as accessible as possible financially for those who want to contribute to the Weelaunee Forest defense and supporting those who in particular are dealing with the heaviness of state repression. Moreover, they put care into the loveliness of their raffle “infographic” designs and written descriptions on each of their Instagram posts. And their “prizes” consist of abundant care, from @dorimidnight’s (photo 1) Jewish plant magic set of poster, postcards, and tree poem prints, to @ssonmoss’s (photo 2) two care packages of herbal remedies, one for the winner and another for the winner to gift to someone else, to @jewishzinearchive’s (photo 3) complete set of everything it has ever made, such as a “No Prisons in Olam Haba” T-shirt. (See their Instagrams for details.)

So whether you’re Jewish or not, if you love trees and solidarity, and hate the cops, grab one, two, three, or many raffle tickets by February 5, knowing each and every dollar will go to the struggle in so-called Atlanta to both defend and celebrate trees, on their birthday and every day.

(Please share and spread the word!)

#TzedekForTrees
#TzedekForTort
#ForestsNotFascism