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 [...]
Getting Ready in the Gulf
This month is filled with excitement and anxiety. Once again, temperatures are topping records. Once again, hurricane season is heating up. But we are getting ready; hot on the heels of our first innovative and [...]
Finishing One Training Tour, & Beginning The Next!
We are so happy to announce that our pilot-project, Building the Movement for Mutual Aid Training Tour, was a great success in spring 2018 - so much so that we are hustling to put together [...]
(Solar) Power to the People
On May 23, 2018, 3 days after the 8-month anniversary of Hurricane Maria’s landfall in Puerto Rico, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief’s #PRRebuilds Sustainability and Ecological Resilience team arrived for the third time in Barrio Mariana, [...]
Temporary Autonomous Zones
Last week marked the end of our Tampa Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Post-Irma Convergence Center, the space was generously offered to us by St. Paul Lutheran Church. This space was artful, accessible, warm and creative. [...]
Building the Movement for Mutual Aid – SPRING TOUR 2018
Friends, I am so excited and grateful for this opportunity to organize our first "Building the Movement for Mutual Aid" Training Tour! This is a critical moment for developing a skilled and empowered standing network [...]
Dreaming With Our Hands: On Autonomy, In(ter)dependence, and the Regaining of the Commons
"It was like an atomic bomb went off" a local Boricua, as people born in Puerto Rico are often called, is saying about the view of the mountains the day after Maria passed. "Every branch, [...]
2017 Reflection: Unafraid of Ruins
2017 has been a busy year for us. We saw unprecedented disasters, both climate related and political. The storms are increasing in intensity and frequency, but so is our diverse movement’s power from below, our [...]
The Disaster is the Colony
Rolling through the gates of west end Aquadilla's Medium/Minimum security prison Institución Correccional de Guerrero, our view widens to capture barbed wire buildings, a generator screaming a guttural something off stage left and the furious [...]
This is Caguas
The rest is Puerto Rico. Centro de Apoyo Mutuo, Centers for Mutual Aid, exist as raised fists across the island landscape of post hurricane Irma, post hurricane Maria Puerto Rico. In the narrow, colorful streets [...]
Puerto Rico’s DIY Disaster Relief
A woman relaxes in the Centro de Apoyo Mutuo in Caguas, which feeds hundreds of people every day. The black and white Puerto Rican flag behind her symbolizes opposition to US-government imposed austerity. In the [...]