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
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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
#CampFire: We Are Rooted Here – North Valley Mutual Aid
The following is a report back from the North Valley Mutual Aid group, which is organizing an autonomous response to the Camp Fire from Chico, CA: WHO WE ARE We’re North Valley Mutual Aid (NVMA). As you’ve probably heard, the Camp Fire that started on November 8th is the deadliest
Stronger than the Storms – Dis(ability), Power, and Friendship After Hurricane Florence
“I was scared, I already knew I had Jackie, a 24/7 job. My sister would have never survived in a home. They wouldn’t have given her the care. Plus she was my sister. I was probably 12/13 when I learned to feed her, change her diaper. I wasn’t seeing her
Panama City Landlords Are Finishing What Hurricane Michael Started
A CALL TO ACTION: Hundreds of residents in low income housing projects in Panama City have gotten eviction notices in the days following the category 4 catastrophe of hurricane Michael, which shredded the region into a state of nonrecognition. In short, it looks like a war zone. In an