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