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Mutual Aid: A Factor of Liberalism
Mutual-aid is in the air. Look near any anarchist or socialist project, and you will see the importance of it emphasized in big bold text. In the name of mutual-aid, […]
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So You Want to Get Involved in Mutual Aid
The United States is a country of staggering disparities, many of which have been put in stark relief over the past year amid compounding crises. As the coronavirus pandemic has […]
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Prison, Protest, & Mutual Aid: The Robert Danilczuk Story
‘[D]o you not realise that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like […]
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Radically Redistributing Mutual Aid
Over the past three months, starting with the pandemic and expanding into the current rebellion, there has been a beautiful flowering of mutual aid. These projects grew from the seeds […]
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‘We’ve been organising like this since day’ – why we must remember the Black roots of mutual aid groups
[Via Gal-Dem, 5 June, 2020, by Eshe Kiama Zuri] “As the black founder of a radical mutual aid group launched in 2018, I am frustrated to see new, white, middle-class […]
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Mutual aid is sweeping the world. Here’s how we make this anarchist way of organising last
Mutual aid initiatives have rapidly spread during the coronavirus pandemic. But as the crisis is only likely to change and not abate, can community-led action stay the course? Argentina may […]
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How Mutual Aid Provides a Path to the Future
I keep thinking about a man named Tony Sizemore, whose partner Birdie Sheldon was the first person in Indiana to die of Covid-19 in March, when deaths were fewer and […]
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Pandemic Organizers Are Co-opting Productivity Software
Mutual-aid groups are distributing groceries and spare air conditioners via tools designed to turn labor into money as efficiently as possible. The workplace chat app Slack is where you go […]
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Rojava: statelessness in a time of pandemic
Lack of international recognition as a state has disastrous consequences on an area already suffering from war and displacement. Local structures at work As mutual aid initiatives spring up across many wealthy […]
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What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic
A radical practice is suddenly getting mainstream attention. Will it change how we help one another? We are not accustomed to destruction looking, at first, like emptiness. The coronavirus pandemic […]