The movement for mutual aid during disasters isn’t something we invented. But we are trying to act as a swiss-army knife for this growing movement of movements, as it becomes more and more critical for our collective survival. One way we are supporting and uplifting this tactic, and the larger autonomous disaster relief movement, of which we are only a small part, is curating a database of news articles about autonomous, liberatory, mutual aid efforts in the context of disasters.
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BAR Abolition and Mutual Aid Spotlight: Ejeris Dixon | Black Agenda ReportMutual aid efforts are proliferating in this time of epidemic, organizing communities towards self-determination by creating mechanisms that oppose the state violence. “Support organizations need ...
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McKinley Park News - Neighbors Activate McKinley Park COVID-19 Mutual Aid NetworkA group of volunteer residents in the McKinley Park neighborhood of Chicago has started up the McKinley Park COVID-19 Support Network, a mutual aid program to help vulnerable residents with food and ...
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#WeSeeYouKSHB: Kansas Citians create mutual-aid resources for those in needPeople in Kansas City are putting their heads together to come up with new ways to help those who need it.
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Coronavirus Has Given the Left a Historic OpportunityAs major corporations work their will on Capitol Hill, workers are spending their energy helping each other stay alive.
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Mutual Aid Groups: Five reflections for ‘Activists’ going local for the first timeInspired by Anna Kleist‘s hot takes on an initial few weeks of local mutual aid organising in the UK, I was inspired to throw in a few (slightly longer!) additional reflections, building on some ...
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NewsweekAs New York City became one of the first major areas in the country to order residents to stay at home as the coronavirus pandemic spread nationwide, a group of activists in the borough of Queens quickly realized that they needed to organize to help their neighbors in the weeks ahead.
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Mutual aid groups respond to double threat of coronavirus and climate changeCareMongering is one of many mutual aid organizations around the world that have either been created or expanded to help people struggling during the pandemic — either because of age, health status ...
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These Students Took Care of Each Other When Their Universities Didn’tWhen their universities failed to provide support during the early chaos of the coronavirus outbreak, students launched mutual aid efforts across the country to share resources and support.
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Gov't Failure to Address Coronavirus is Sparking a Mutual Aid RevolutionCoronavirus: A volunteer-driven mutual aid revolution is taking hold in disenfranchised communities across America writes Eleanor Goldfield.
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CrimethInc. : All We Have Is Us: A Call from a Delivery Driver in Manhattan : For a Solidarity of ...A delivery driver at the epicenter of the pandemic in Manhattan describes the stark class relations between the vulnerable and the protected.
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CrimethInc. : And After the Virus? The Perils Ahead : Resistance in the Year of the PlagueConfronting the pandemic and the totalitarian power grabs accompanying it, we must ask not only how we will survive, but also how we want to live.
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As Pandemic Layoffs Top 17 Million, Mutual Aid Networks AriseAs unemployment reaches levels unseen in the US in 80 years, networks of mutual aid arise to support neighborhoods.
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Let the spirit of mutual aid run free - Stabroek NewsWe live in a time of heightened fear and uncertainty. For those of us who plan ahead as a past time, we might feel that our objectives and timelines are
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Más apoyo mutuo y resistencia en tiempos del coronavirusEl apoyo mutuo es uno de los pilares de las entidades de la economía social y el micromecenazgo una de sus herramientas más útiles
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WRV 'Mutual Aid' Groups Chart Path Ahead | The White River Valley HeraldWith many residents of the White River Valley settling into their third week of the COVID-19 self-isolation order, communities of volunteers have begun efforts to organize around the essential needs o
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Almasude Co-Founds New Haven Area Mutual Aid Fund to Provide Relief Amid COVID-19Second-year Psychiatry resident Eden Almasude, MD, MA, co-founded the New Haven Area Mutual Aid Fund to help provide help to New Haven households during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Lessons From Mutual Aid During the Coronavirus Crisis (SSIR)Community-led responses to the COVID-19 epidemic are providing a model for treating the vulnerable that should remain when this crisis comes to an end.
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As virus batters government, US mutual aid groups step upA mask on his face and gloves on his hands, Anthony Lorenzo Green navigated a silver Cadillac through the streets of northeast Washington, delivering groceries to needy people, no strings attached. ...
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BAR Abolition & Mutual Aid Spotlight: Chicago Community Bond Fund | Black Agenda ReportThis arena of the mutual aid movement is energized by “a vision of the absence of prisons, jails, detention, and criminalization.” “Paying bail is more than paying ransom.”
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As virus batters government, US mutual aid groups step upA mask on his face and gloves on his hands, Anthony Lorenzo Green navigated a silver Cadillac through the streets of northeast Washington, delivering groceries to needy people, no strings attached. ...
