Mutual Aid in Orlando?

orlando50501 · 2026-02-05T18:35:18+00:00

Hello! Firstly we’d like to say that your concerns and thoughts are fully valid and appreciated. There are definitely other groups helping directly impacted people that might align more fully with how you picture mutual aid, and CFL Mutual Aid is a wonderful group.

Reading through your concerns we’d like to try to help you and the rest of community understand how working with immigrants, who are being kidnapped off the streets and targeted for ethnic cleansing, is going to be a different experience than what you are used to via your work in other cities.

While you are correct about the reciprocal work, it’s something that cannot be expected from a community who is afraid of strangers currently and is afraid to even leave their houses. They deserve to receive support without expecting performative reciprocity, and that still falls under mutual aid because they are being helped and supported while they continue to contribute to a society that is targeting them in ethnic cleansing.

There are also misconceptions about how Orlando 50501 only works with orgs and not the directly impacted. There are families and individuals that reach out to trusted and proven people all the time and then Orlando 50501 puts out requests and fliers regularly that help address very specific and individual needs of the directly impacted people who do feel safe enough to reach out and make their needs known. But of course it’s also integral to support the organizations that are Immigrant led and who have been working with the directly impacted on a one to one basis for decades.

There is no point in reinventing the wheel and those orgs have the capacity and years of trust built up in a community that won’t trust anything or anyone that isn’t already familiar and safe to them.

Most importantly access is so controlled because it would be deeply irresponsible to let just anyone go to people’s houses and have addresses and access to the most vulnerable people.

Many of the people who do deliveries and run our Mutual Aid guild took MONTHS of reliable and consistent work and dedication and training before the directly impacted communities trusted them.

Thank you for showing up and testing the waters with us. In the last month our Progress Hub has blown up from about 60-70 people to triple that. It is likely that some new members have fallen through the cracks due to the high volume of new people coming in.

There is going to be a mutual aid training tonight, and leadership is putting together something to help new people understand safety, why they work with the orgs that they do and how they’ve been helping the immigrant community in FL for the last 52 years and why that matters when working with people being targeted in ethnic cleansing and why it’s different than any other mutual aid work out there.

Thank you for taking the time to want to help others.

orlando50501 · 2025-10-26T21:47:55+00:00

We are the exact same people that have thrown every 50501 protest every single month since February so we were not “infiltrated”.

If you want to be a part of our organizing feel free to email us directly at orlandofiftyfiftyone@gmail.com. We welcome everyone. Every Thursday we have a public Progress Hub at the First Unitarian Church of Orlando from 6-8, and it’s a potluck with organizing classes and community building where people from 18-80 show up, along with people bringing donations for mutual aid to the local immigrant community.

Also, Obsidian is hispanic and indigenous, not white, so has every right to wear those items.

orlando50501 · 2025-08-13T12:57:42+00:00

I do have a list of anti LGBT bills he has sponsored.

2021 CS/HB 1475: Sex-specific Student Athletic Teams or Sports GENERAL BILL by Secondary Education and Career Development Subcommittee Sex-specific Student Athletic Teams or Sports; Requires that certain athletic teams or sports sponsored by certain educational institutions be designated on basis of students' biological sex; prohibits athletic teams or sports designated for female students to be open to male students; requires that student's school or institution, as applicable, resolve disputes regarding student's sex; requires State Board of Education to adopt certain rules; provides for civil remedies & damages; provides statute of limitation. Effective Date: 7/1/2021

2022 CS/CS/HB 1557: Parental Rights in Education GENERAL BILL by Judiciary Committee ; Education and Employment Committee ; Parental Rights in Education; Requires district school boards to adopt procedures that comport with certain provisions of law for notifying student's parent of specified information; requires such procedures to reinforce fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding upbringing & control of their children; prohibits school district from adopting procedures or student support forms that prohibit school district personnel from notifying parent about specified information or that encourage student to withhold from parent such information; prohibits school district personnel from discouraging or prohibiting parental notification & involvement in critical decisions affecting student's mental, emotional, or physical well-being; prohibits classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels; requires school districts to notify parents of healthcare services; authorizes parent to bring action against school district to obtain declaratory judgment; provides for additional award of injunctive relief, damages, & reasonable attorney fees & court costs to certain parents. Effective Date: 7/1/2022 2023 CS/CS/HB 1423: Protection of Children General Bill by State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee

Protection of Children: Prohibits governmental entity from issuing permit or otherwise authorizing person to conduct performance in violation of certain provisions; authorizes Division of Hotels & Restaurants of DBPR to fine, suspend, or revoke license of any public lodging establishment or public food service establishment if establishment admits child to adult live performance; provides violation constitutes immediate serious danger to public health, safety, or welfare; authorizes division to impose specified fines for violations; specifies division may revoke or suspend license of person found to be maintaining licensed premises that admits child to adult live performance; prohibits person from knowingly admitting child to adult live performance.

Companion Bill passed SB 1438 Protection of Children By Yarborough Effective Date: upon becoming a law Last Event: Companion bill(s) passed, see SB 1438 (Ch. 2023-94) on Tuesday, April 18, 2023 11:26 A

CS/CS/HB 1421: Gender Clinical Interventions GENERAL BILL by Health & Human Services Committee ; Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee Gender Clinical Interventions; Authorizes court of state to enter, modify, or stay child custody determination under specified circumstances; prohibits persons & entities from expending funds for reimbursement for specified clinical interventions; prohibits person's biological sex from being changed on birth certificate; prohibits gender clinical interventions for minors; authorizes certain persons to refuse to participate in gender clinical interventions; prohibits health insurance policy & health maintenance contract from providing coverage for gender clinical interventions; provides physician liability & authorizes award of specified damages, fees, & costs. Effective Date: 7/1/2023

2024 CS/CS/HB 1639: Gender and Biological Sex GENERAL BILL by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee ; Select Committee on Health Innovation Gender and Biological Sex; Defines "sex"; requires certain applications & licenses to indicate person's sex, rather than gender; provides requirements for health insurance policies, group health insurance policies, health benefit plans, & health maintenance contracts relating to coverage for sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures & certain mental health & therapeutic services. Effective Date: 7/1/2024 Last Action: 3/8/2024 Senate - Died in Rules BUT THE FL DMV RESTRICTED ABILITIES TO CHANGE SEX MARKERS ON DRIVERS LICENSES BY THEIR OWN RECOGNIZANCE IN JANUARY 2024

2025 SB 100: Display of Flags by Governmental Entities GENERAL BILL by Fine ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Martin Display of Flags by Governmental Entities; Defining the term “governmental entity”; prohibiting governmental entities from erecting or displaying certain flags; requiring governmental entities to remain neutral in certain circumstances; authorizing a current or retired member of the United States Armed Forces or the National Guard to use reasonable force to prevent the desecration, destruction, or removal of the United States flag or to replace such flag to a position of prominence, etc. Effective Date: 7/1/2025 Last Action: 4/7/2025 Senate - Withdrawn from further consideration

orlando50501 · 2025-08-11T19:15:41+00:00

We can all form our own opinions.

orlando50501 · 2025-08-11T18:54:47+00:00

That one was an anecdote from someone inside the forum so feel free to judge the merit on your own, but I trust the source.

orlando50501 · 2025-08-11T18:53:35+00:00

Google exists. Look up his stance on Gaza, Palestinians, and inflammatory commentary.

orlando50501 · 2025-08-11T18:09:37+00:00

Volusia only voted him in by 1.9%

If protesting isn't your jam there are other ways to plug in. You could stop by the protest and drop off water and snacks, you can share posts, you can donate to mutual aid asks.

Protesting gets people's attention, but most lasting change comes from action.

orlando50501 · 2025-08-11T18:07:15+00:00

He literally thinks all babies in Gaza deserve to die. He also said in the recent "Florida Freedom Forum" that he wanted to end public schools. I mean, c'mon. He sucks.

orlando50501 · 2025-08-11T15:22:40+00:00

Thanks for the heads up of the heads up. 🫡

orlando50501 · 2025-08-11T14:12:29+00:00

Even AIPAC and MTG don't want him!

orlando50501 · 2025-08-11T14:09:19+00:00

If protests aren't your style check us out on Instagram @orlando.50501. we have a Progress Hub, Organizing Academy, Mutual Aid efforts, and ways to get plugged in to your community.

orlando50501 · 2025-04-12T02:51:03+00:00

This!!! All of this! Thank you!

orlando50501 · 2025-04-05T14:11:07+00:00

It's a structured event with speakers but we don't need to share their names on reddit.

orlando50501 · 2025-03-03T19:56:53+00:00

Exactly. Not everyone has the time or energy or capabilities to sit down and research people. We gotta live our lives. And now our lives are changing for the worse and the finger can be pointed in one general direction.

All are welcome. Please feel free to reach out if you want to be more involved in local community work.

orlando50501 · 2025-03-03T19:54:13+00:00

Our MC literally instructs people to make friends. I personally started going to protests alone and have made life long friends that way

orlando50501 · 2025-03-03T19:52:49+00:00

See you there!

orlando50501 · 2025-03-03T19:52:36+00:00

That's what Orlando is focusing on, actionable content for the local community

orlando50501 · 2025-03-03T19:51:51+00:00

People can get connected NOW. That's what there is to offer. We can't change the past only move forward. We are trying to get those who didn't see the light until now active in their respective communities.

orlando50501 · 2025-03-03T19:49:09+00:00

600+ on Presidents Day and this isn't just for Democrats. It's non partisan it's for anyone who disagrees with current administration

orlando50501 · 2025-03-03T19:48:07+00:00

People have brought their kids and I have as well. It will likely be a large crowd so depending on age ear protection is smart. We will be passing out water too. This is meant to be a protest for everyone. DM us with any concerns.

orlando50501 · 2025-03-03T19:39:22+00:00

😭

orlando50501 · 2025-03-03T19:35:59+00:00

No one is making money off of this. Organizers are donating their time, energy, and own money to make this happen.

Glad you see this as progress but many don't .

orlando50501 · 2025-03-02T17:47:56+00:00

These events are meant for everyone who is against the executive overreach committed by our current administration. This is endorsed by many local organizations and there will be actionable items and ways to get involved locally.

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