We Are Rooted Here: North Valley Mutual Aid
The following is a report back from the North Valley Mutual Aid group, which is organizing an autonomous response to the Camp Fire from Chico, CA: WHO WE ARE We're North Valley Mutual Aid (NVMA). [...]
Bonds Not Ballots
As another election year spectacle has come and gone, and as we inch closer to irreversible, cataclysmic shifts in our climate, we are reminded that our hope is in each other, in relationships of mutual [...]
Stronger than the Storms: Dis(ability), Power, and Friendship After Hurricane Florence
“I was scared, I already knew I had Jackie, a 24/7 job. My sister would have never survived in a home. They wouldn’t have given her the care. Plus she was my sister. I was [...]
Lumberton, NC: Vision and Action
It’s hard to believe that over a month has already passed since Hurricane Florence dropped a seemingly endless supply of rain onto eastern North Carolina. We reflect back on the Indigenous led relief efforts out [...]
Panama City Landlords are Finishing What Hurricane Michael Started
A call to action. Hundreds of residents in low income housing projects in Panama City have received eviction notices in the days following the category 4 catastrophe of Hurricane Michael, which shredded the region into [...]
Solidarity Through The Storms
Greetings, comrades and co-conspirators! To say that we at Mutual Aid Disaster Relief have been busy the past few weeks would be putting it mildly. Between our ongoing recovery efforts in the Carolinas following the [...]
Dual-Power in a Three-Way Fight: Critical Reflections on Hurricane Michael
On October 10, 2018, Hurricane Michael swept into the Florida panhandle with a ferocity unlike anything seen in the region’s recorded history. The intensity of the devastation is difficult to overstate, if not impossible. We [...]
Mutual Aid efforts in the wake of Hurricane Michael
Wednesday night, Hurricane Michael swept through the Florida panhandle, making landfall as a Category 4 hurricane—the fiercest storm in recorded history to strike the region. Hurricane Michael collided with Panama Beach, FL with reported 12-13’ [...]
URGENT: Hurricane Michael Phone Zap
Hurricane Michael, now a Category 4, is slated to be the worst hurricane to hit Florida in over 100 years and the the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) refuses to evacuate 15 state prisons [...]
(In)visible Disasters: Farmworkers and Hurricane Florence
Even without a devastating hurricane, farmworkers face slow, steady invisible disasters of low wages, unsafe working conditions, the breath of ICE down their necks, wage theft, and even modern day slavery. Organizations like the Coalition [...]
“Building the Movement for Mutual Aid” Training Tour, Part 2
The Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Training Team is on the road again! With a curriculum honed through practice on our Spring Tour (30 locations in the Eastern USA), and a group of skilled young [...]
They Don’t Care About Us but We Keep Us Safe
It’s been over a week since Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina, and floodwaters continue to rise. While power is already coming back in some affluent neighborhoods, the ones we are working in don't even have [...]
URGENT: Hurricane Florence Phone Zap
As Hurricane Florence barrels towards the East Coast 170,000 people behind bars lie directly in it’s path with no ability to evacuate in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. We need your help putting pressure [...]
Hurricane Florence
This is an urgent message Hurricane Florence is projected to hit the coast along North and South Carolina late this week (likely Thursday night). This will be the first major hurricane to hit the US [...]
Training Tour Begins This Week!
The "Building the Movement for Mutual Aid" Training Tour is back on the road this fall Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Trainers will be visiting about 20 locations in the West. See our events calendar here. [...]