Mutual Aid Practices
Allies, Accomplices and other mutual aid networks sharing info
We are going to have to lean on the community now more than ever.
Here are resources for learning how to practice mutual aid.
What is Mutual Aid?
What Mutual Aid IS
Getting people together in your community to provide material support to each other
Building relationships with your neighbors based on trust and common interest
Making decisions by consensus rather than relying on authority or hierarchy
Sharing things rather than hoarding things
Treating no one as disposable
Providing all kinds of support, ranging from food prep to childcare to translation to emotional support, and recognizing the value of all of them
A political education opportunity, where we build the relationships and analysis to understand why we are in the conditions that we’re in
Preparation for the next disaster (natural or economic). Next time around we’ll already have relationships with each other and know who is vulnerable and needs support
A great jumping off point for other kinds of organizing and movement work
What Mutual Aid IS NOT
Quid pro quo transactions
Only for disasters or crises
Charity or a way to “save” people
A reason for a social safety net not to exist
(from AOC’s Mutual Aid 101 Toolkit)
LINKS TO Resources
Grassroots Organizers' Demands Concerning COVID-19 (one of the initial demands)
Coronavirus Resource Kit (Disability Community Preparedness)
Mutual Aid Networks
FIND OTHER MUTUAL AID NETWORKS
DC MUTUAL AID NETWORK
The DC Mutual Aid Network is a multi spherical network of pods made from DC wards. The network released some city demands. ----> bit.ly/DemandsC19