Food Insecurity in the Community Is Growing
Can You Pitch in a Little?
The Tattler Asks Our More Fortunate Neighbors To Help Out
The Tattler has installed a free food table at the corner of Horton Street and Sherwin Street and we invite anyone who is struggling to feed themselves to stop by and take what you need for you and your family whenever you need it. Conversely, to our neighbors who may be more fortunate, you are invited to leave food at the table whenever you are able. Even small donations are helpful. The table will not be staffed. It is just designed for unrewarded and unrecognized human kindness to push back against this toxic government in Washington (and to help a hungry neighbor eat).
It is a trifling thing for neighbors to pitch in when they’re walking their dog and such. Non-perishables are best but if the table starts to become a high turn over thing, fruits and vegetables will be able to be left. We ask that donations start out with non-perishables, please. The Tattler will report on the goings on at the food table from time to time.
The Bay Area, including Emeryville and the environs, have long been a locus of food insecurity for the working poor owing to inherent problems with American style capitalism with its high rents in places where relatively high paying jobs are located. This has been made even more manifest with the rise of Trump 2.0 of course and we feel we must act now to ameliorate some of the suffering of our less fortunate neighbors. There’s quite a lot of disposable income among our neighbors in the Park Avenue neighborhood and all around us is suffering. We hope our Emeryville neighbors agree and give what and when they can.
Please keep in mind donating, even just one can of food, is an act of kindness of course, but it is also a highly radical act of resistance against the forces of darkness that seem to be closing in all around us. Take a can of food with you on your nightly dog walk and include a stop at the Tattler Free Food Table and you can help your dog as well as help your own connection to the community.
Books will also be left on the table. To start, are titles by JG Ballard, Carl Jung, Gore Vidal, Al Franken, John Powers and Glen Greenwald. If it is going to rain, we ask the books be left in sealable plastic bags.
The first food offerings for the table include mostly nutrition dense foods such as packaged granola, pickled lupini beans, almonds, trail mix and honey packets.
Bravo. Well done. What would be fantastic would be to add a refrigerator for perishable items such as vegetables. Many communities nationwide offer refrigerators with free food for those in need.
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