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 [...]
(Re)Building for the Future: Solar Solidarity in Puerto Rico
The networks of mutual support in Puerto Rico that sprung up like a flower through the concrete after Hurricane Maria, show how mutual aid responses to disasters build power and resilience for future crises, both [...]
The Powerful Shake
On January 7th, 2020, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico, causing widespread damage in the south and temporarily knocking out power throughout the island. There have been thousands of earthquakes and tremors starting in [...]
A Fire Burning
PG&E has failed the people of California. The company has been giving billions of dollars to investors through dividend payments and payouts to politicians instead of doing the necessary repairs for its aging fire hazard [...]
Apoyo Mutuo: Building Power in Paradise
Over two years after Hurricane Maria, the Centros de Apoyo Mutuo are still vibrant, people-powered, living examples of mutual aid and community-based resistance and resilience. In the community of Bucarabones in Las Marias, immediately after [...]
The Disaster of White Supremacy
This summer saw death tolls rise amidst proliferating white supremacist acts of terror across the country. The state, another agent of white-supremacist terror, has persisted its administration-directed campaign of snatching children from their parents, and [...]
Dorian, Imelda, and More
Hello friends! Just wanted to update you about some of our recent activities. On September 1, Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 storm, decimated entire communities in the Northern Bahamas islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco. [...]
Dorian Response Autonomous Supply Line
Hurricane Dorian has decimated the Bahamas and is wreaking destruction and spawning tornadoes up the east coast. Millions of people have been ordered to evacuate from the eastern seaboard, and there are already storm impacts [...]
Inspiration & Support for Disaster Preparation
As we enter hurricane season in the Atlantic and fire season in the West, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is compiling tips for preparing communities to take care of each other in the spirit of mutual [...]
A Parallel Movement Rising: On Mutual Aid and the Borderlands
In the blur of heat rising from the searing sands of the Sonoran Desert, there is a cascade of drinking water splashed into the dry earth, unclaimed by bodies bent with thirst and the merciless [...]
Concrete Can’t Keep us from Growing: On Spring and Dandelions
Midwest Floods As part of our 2018 Fall tour, we rolled through Lincoln, Nebraska. Friends there have continued to discuss and organize, and when the bomb cyclone caused flooding throughout Nebraska and the greater Midwest, [...]
Building Arks
At the end of last year, we wrapped up our second workshop tour. Over three months, we worked our way from Albuquerque to San Diego, then north toward Seattle, and across the midwest into Wisconsin, [...]
MADR TOUR RECAP: FALL 2018
December 29th, 2018 At the end of a long year, our second workshop tour is complete! Over the course of three months, we worked our way from Albuquerque to San Diego, then north toward Seattle, [...]
What Is Left After The Ruins?: Tent City Cleared After Nonprofit Took Charge Of “Aid” Efforts
On December 11, 2018, in Panama City, Florida, a large tent city located in the parking lot of a church was transformed into a demolition site. Hundreds of people were left with nowhere to go, [...]