See the timeline below for examples of Mutual Aid from recent history. Click on the links to learn more.

  • Occupy Sandy

    Occupy Sandy

    Occupy Sandy was an organized relief effort created to assist the victims of Hurricane Sandy in the northeastern United States. Occupy Sandy was an offshoot of the Occupy movement. The […]

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  • Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina

    Hurricane Katrina was a large and extremely powerful hurricane that caused enormous destruction and significant loss of life. It was the costliest, and one of the five deadliest, hurricanes to […]

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  • The Young Lords

    The Young Lords

    The Young Lords Party was born out of the disenfranchised Puerto Rican community in Chicago in 1968, and then El Barrio (East Harlem), New York City in 1969. From there, the […]

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  • The Black Panther Party

    The Black Panther Party

    1966 The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland, fed […]

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