On Sieges, Solidarity, and Solar
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 [...]
A Bridge Between Catastrophes: A Communal Response to Hurricane Debby
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 [...]
A Pillar in the Land of Ruin: Mutual Aid at Willson Tower
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 [...]
Through the Siege, Around the Army
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 [...]
Mutual Aid and the Criminalization of Compassion: Humanitarian Aid Must Never Be A Crime
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 [...]
There Is No Climate Refuge Except in Each Other: Flooding and Mutual Aid in Vermont
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 [...]
The Other Shore: Mutual Aid and Autonomous Infrastructure after Hurricane Ian
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. [...]
The Work of Lifetimes and Generations
(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, [...]
Introducing the Relief Toolkit, a platform for connecting across disasters
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 [...]
Kairos: A Mutual Aid Exodus From Empire
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 [...]
Welcome to Hurricane Season (June 2021) – A Report Back from West Street Recovery
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 [...]
The Future is Now: Overlapping Constant Disaster and Mutual Aid as Survival Strategy
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 [...]
Radically Redistributing Mutual Aid
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 [...]
Growing Deeper Roots in Mutual Aid: a list of reflections, inspiration, & resources
"We Keep each Other Safe" by Monica Trinidad While grieving the loss all around us, we’re simultaneously finding fortitude in a world suddenly in bloom with thousands upon thousands of mutual aid-based [...]
When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic
Radical solidarity through Covid-19 Community mobilizations for mutual aid and medical solidarity have formed in as many spaces as the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread. From continent to continent, people have innovated and navigated through [...]