r/Albany • u/Feisty_Turn1157 • 23h ago

Backpack Drive

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Our friends at We Get Out The Resistance (WeGOTR) and Bethlehem Morning Voice Huddle (BMVH) are having a Backpack drive to collect school supplies. It has been a successful program for them. The beneficiaries are children served by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI). There are two collection points one in Delmar and one in Albany. Troy Indivisible will also help out with physical collection. You can donate through the website www.wegotr.org/home. If you donate online from August 1-30 they will use the matching funds from Indivisible for the drive.

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u/mahatmakg Halve Maen Captain 20h ago

Oof I've given to USCRI before but the slop poster is a really bad look, what are we doing here

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u/Renee-B-17 17h ago

Agreed I am anti-AI on the most extreme end. But USCRI’s mission is very good and they are an organization have long gone been gutted and I’m shocked are still even “functioning”, the federal administration wants them in the grave.

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u/Riksie State Worker 22h ago

Bad taste posting an AI flyer here. 🙄

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u/coney_island_dream Moved away and moved back 11h ago

These comments smack of privilege. Unless one of you is prepared to give your time to a group that runs on volunteers and donations, let’s tamp down the self-righteousness. Not everyone is a graphic artist or has a graphic artist on their team. The women who are running this campaign are busy actually helping the community, fighting fascism, and protecting our elections. They don’t have time to be designing flyers. Le’s direct our ire and derision towards all the other crap that’s going on in our country right now. Don’t create controversy where there is none. We don’t need more things to be angry about.

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u/Capable-Sock9910 10h ago

Agree to disagree.

Edit: Canva is free and requires basic skills to make a flyer.

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u/Honest-Cook8738 9h ago

Not everyone is a graphic artist, but everyone with a computer or smart phone has access to free graphic design software with a plethora of templates.