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. [...]
Bring Climate Justice to Prison Abolition
This week, a global climate justice convergence in San Francisco will coincide with the national prison strike. Alongside the Prison Ecology Project and Fight Toxic Prisons, Nation Inside’s #StopTheHeat Campaign has been drawing connections between [...]
“Building the Movement for Mutual Aid” ON TOUR in the West This Fall
“Mutual Aid can be the way we live every day” This list is from a workshop in Houston in July. Folks in the Gulf are preparing for hurricane season, and we want to inspire others [...]
Flooding in Wisconsin & People’s Tribunal on Harvey Recovery
It’s not just in major disasters that make primetime television where we are responding. On Monday, August 20, the rural area west of Madison, Wisconsin experienced record rainfall of over 15in. The Black Earth Creek [...]
Summer Heating Up
Hello friends! Tyler here, with another update about our networking and training endeavors.... I got an opportunity to visit communities on the Gulf Coast last month. I am very grateful to the California Allegory Fellowship, [...]
So Many Summer Conferences!
Hi friends, Tyler here, with a little update about what some of us have been getting into this summer. Our “Building the Movement for Mutual Aid” Training Tour was such an inspiration in Spring 2018! Even [...]