Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

-organized protests about basically every social justice topic under the sun, deferring to local community organizers for Black Lives Matter when they were organizing marches, etc, and joined in with them
-organized hot food donations, etc, for the cold-weather shelter the last five or so years running

among like half a dozen other things.

-was one of the first people to address the problems with houseless people in our small town; used to volunteer for the first shelter in town, was an organizer for another one (which is aimed at women fleeing bad situations), and actually ended up donating a large plot of land and helping a local group build housing for houseless people who don't gel well with a traditional shelter situation due to mental illness or other difficulties

literally tho, uh.

-started getting into social justice, especially racial justice and peace activism, in the 1970s. got arrested multiple times. told the newspaper when they did a spotlight on him a couple of years ago that it was a worthy cause and that was why he was always willing to get arrested -- "this is how you stand up for what you believe in, by engaging in civil disobedience and demonstrating the inherent unfairness of the system"

one of the local people I knew as Walking the Walk in addition to, you know, talking a big game about social justice apparently died over the weekend. He was quite old so this is not a surprise.

what was surprising to me is just how long and varied his bio was in terms of "good acts done", starting with how much blood he donated over his lifetime (80+ gallons! W H A T), and ending with the recent work he's done with Black Lives Matter.