(Art by Alice + S, Edinburgh) It has been too long since we shared an update about what has been happening with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. We have been slowly building power, responding to the many crises already here and preparing for future ones. Southern Louisiana has been
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Welcome to Hurricane Season (June 2021) – A Report Back from West Street Recovery
Via Mutual Aid Disaster Relief The following is a report back from our friends at West Street Recovery, who have been organizing through over three years of recovery from Hurricane Harvey and providing ongoing support to the community groups Northeast Action Collective (NAC) and Harvey Forgotten Survivors Caucus. Their reflections
The Future is Now: Overlapping Constant Disaster and Mutual Aid as Survival Strategy
This beautiful piece of art was created by Molly Costello. Post via Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. We are still in the midst of hurricane and fire seasons, and already 2020 has been a historic year for the number, magnitude, and impact of disasters. Fires burn across the West Coast. Hurricanes
Radically Redistributing Mutual Aid
Via: MADR 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 of already-existing collective care. Indeed, “mutual aid” wasn’t invented by radical social theorists, even if anarchist geographer Peter
Growing Deeper Roots in Mutual Aid: a list of reflections, inspiration, & resources
“We Keep each Other Safe” by Monica Trinidad While grieving the loss all around us, we’re simultaneously finding fortitude in a world suddenly in bloom with thousands upon thousands of mutual aid-based projects, ideas, and connections. We’ve seen so many inspiring resource lists sharing the logistics of how to respond
When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic
Radical solidarity through Covid-19 Community mobilizations for mutual aid and medical solidarity have formed in as many spaces as the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread. From continent to continent, people have innovated and navigated through information suppression, governmental inadequacy and unpreparedness as well as supply shortages in panic-economies with global
(Re)Building for the Future: Solar Solidarity in Puerto Rico
The networks of mutual support in Puerto Rico that sprung up like a flower through the concrete after Hurricane Maria, show how mutual aid responses to disasters build power and resilience for future crises, both political and climate-related. These Centros de Apoyo Mutuo (Mutual Aid Centers) served as nuclei for
The Powerful Shake
On January 7th, 2020, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Puerto Rico, causing widespread damage in the south and temporarily knocking out power throughout the island. There have been thousands of earthquakes and tremors starting in late December 2019 and continuing to the present day in the south of Puerto Rico.
A Fire Burning
PG&E has failed the people of California. The company has been giving billions of dollars to investors through dividend payments and payouts to politicians instead of doing the necessary repairs for its aging fire hazard infrastructure. Millions of people have recently been left without power, and hundreds of thousands of
Apoyo Mutuo: Building Power in Paradise
Over two years after Hurricane Maria, the Centros de Apoyo Mutuo are still vibrant, people-powered, living examples of mutual aid and community-based resistance and resilience. In the community of Bucarabones in Las Marias, immediately after Hurricane Maria, the state was forced to pull back in the face of the disaster
The Disaster of White Supremacy
This summer saw death tolls rise amidst proliferating white supremacist acts of terror across the country. The state, another agent of white-supremacist terror, has persisted its administration-directed campaign of snatching children from their parents, and parents from their children, leaving young kids alone and traumatized. The tragic collision of those
Dorian, Imelda, and More
Hello friends! Just wanted to update you about some of our recent activities. On September 1, Hurricane Dorian, a category 5 storm, decimated entire communities in the Northern Bahamas islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco. After stalling over the Bahamas, Dorian continued on a destructive path, scraping the southeastern seaboard
Dorian Response Autonomous Supply Line
Hurricane Dorian has decimated the Bahamas and is wreaking destruction and spawning tornadoes up the east coast. Millions of people have been ordered to evacuate from the eastern seaboard, and there are already storm impacts and flooding in many locales between Savannah GA and Norfolk VA. In these areas are
Inspiration & Support for Disaster Preparation
As we enter hurricane season in the Atlantic and fire season in the West, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is compiling tips for preparing communities to take care of each other in the spirit of mutual aid when disaster strikes. Below is a list we’ve started and are continuing to add
Building Arks
At the end of last year, we wrapped up our second workshop tour. Over three months, we worked our way from Albuquerque to San Diego, then north toward Seattle, and across the midwest into Wisconsin, making a total of 21 stops. In traveling west, we wanted to understand the unique