Updates

On September 24th, category 4 Hurricane Helene began gouging its destructive path across the southeast causing flooding along the gulf coast of Florida even before slamming at landfall into the Big Bend area and [...]

This a story about hope, resilience, and transcendental kinship more than it is about loss; this is a story about the inextricable rhizomatic linkages we have with one another, about how we survive it all, be it the disaster of climate catastrophe, or the disaster of rent. This is a story about home, and getting back there.

Borikén (Puerto Rico) is no stranger to sieges. La Junta de Control, PROMESA, the Jones Act, and other colonial policies have made imports to the island more difficult and costly, driving up prices, holding [...]

The tenets of bridge building are a duality of concentration on environmental endpoints and foundational stability across the abyss which separates them. As Hurricane Debby trudged towards the west coast of so-called Florida, those [...]

When people think of vibrant mutual aid spaces, housing projects at the margins of concrete jungles aren't usually what first come to mind. However, Willson Tower, one of the most underserved housing projects in [...]

By land and by sea, global mutual aid and solidarity work is rising to the occasion to meet another existential threat to humanity’s continued existence: war and genocide.   In every disaster, mutual aid and [...]

Art by Declan Byrne (Belfast, Ireland); quote by Angela Davis Mutual aid is your neighbor bringing over a freshly baked blueberry pie because they know you love that kind and they love [...]

On Monday, July 10, 2023, residents throughout the northeast were flooded by a 1-in-100 year storm, brought on by the climate crisis. A few days later, intense rainfall continued to hit the region, flooding [...]

Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida as a strong Category 4 storm. Ian caused a destructive 10- to 15-foot storm surge, trapping many people in the rising floodwaters across a wide geographic area. [...]

(Art by Alice + S, Edinburgh) It has been too long since we shared an update about what has been happening with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. We have been slowly building power, [...]

We’re so excited to announce that the Grassroots Disaster Relief Toolkit, a website platform supporting communication across our decentralized network’s disaster efforts, is now live! In collaboration with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, we designed and [...]

Starting in 2019/2020 and now continuing into the summer of 2021, global civil society is witnessing the biggest neoliberal disaster capitalist shock yet: COVID-19. Millions of people have been and continue to be killed by [...]

The following is a report back from our friends at West Street Recovery, who have been organizing through over three years of recovery from Hurricane Harvey and providing ongoing support to the community groups [...]

We are still in the midst of hurricane and fire seasons, and already 2020 has been a historic year for the number, magnitude, and impact of disasters. Fires burn across the West Coast. Hurricanes [...]

  Over the past three months, starting with the pandemic and expanding into the current rebellion, there has been a beautiful flowering of mutual aid. These projects grew from the seeds of already-existing collective [...]