#safelink phones dating back to the year the program first launched. safelink effectively saved my partner's life when they had to seek

[crengarrion]

the united states' and biden's funding of genocide is going to leave countless impovershed, disabled, elderly, marginalised, and homeless people without a working telephone, mobile phone access, or affordable internet connection. people will die.

people will lose access to federal benefits, bank accounts, transit and accessible vehicles, food delivery, medication, doctors, family, friends, leisure activities, and (in some areas with limited or poor connection) the ability to contact emergency services. keep in mind that there are life-saving medical devices that require internet connectivity, or are controlled via application. this ranges from implanted insulin monitors to AAC and text-to-speech devices to BeMyEyes and other blind accessibility apps to CPAP event monitors to Smartdrives/adapters to motorise manual wheelchairs for people who cannot self propel.

without phone service, i cannot order my necessary immunosuppressant drugs. i will die without them - a slow, painful, expensive death. for the time being, i'm lucky enough to have a backup for service, but it is tenuous and unsustainable. most americans using the affordable connectivity program do not share this privilege.

the money being used to slaughter thousands is either being taken from or being withheld from americans in dire need.

call your representatives. boycott. strike. protest.

tell congress to extend the affordable connectivity program.

#[ whispers ] #my uncle is straight up going to die if this happens man. i'm available for further comment/interviews and have history with the acp and #safelink phones dating back to the year the program first launched. safelink effectively saved my partner's life when they had to seek #shelter with me. it saved three of my uncles. it is my failsafe when my situation providing me service inevitably collapses. it saved my #parent when they had a seizure while driving on a highway and looked up their symptoms online which lead to them safely pulling over and #calling me right as they began sei #seizing. allowing me to contact EMS. #this is the lifeline for hundreds of thousands of people and also provides affordable internet/wifi access. #do you know how many people will lose acces to work? school? caretakers? methadone? gps and navigation?