MUTUAL AID

Mutual aid participants work together to figure out strategies and resources to meet each other's needs, such as food, housing, medical care, and disaster relief, while organizing themselves against the system that created the problem in the first place. Striking doesn't work without community. Community is mutual aid.

In order for women to withdraw from the system, effectively creating an environment to make demands, we need to support each other. Mutual aid comes in many forms. Here are some things you can do to help women who are pulling back from the oppressive system.

1. Lend an ear! We're asking women to withdraw from the capitalist, exploitative social media construct in our society. We will need friendships. We bet you'd make a great friend and you'd like to have a great friend too!

2. Local support organizing, which can be anything from car pooling to help put less money into the system or sharing resources.

3. Donate money, Plan B and womens necessities to local shelters, give one take one boxes or if you're really crafty, set up a little free distribution center somewhere local.

4. Get together with other women and start writing, calling, protesting anywhere you can.

Barter / Freecycle / Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is an opportunity to access goods and services without contributing to the tax system. Here are some national organizations you might find near you already up and running:
https://timebanks.org/
https://freecycle.org/
https://www.maternalgifteconomymovement.org/

Homesteading
We can homestead anywhere by learning sustainable, time tested skills. You don't have to go all the way off the grid to start removing yourself from an abusive economic and societal situation. Anything from growing a garden, learning how to can your own food, repairing / recycling clothes to learning to practice herbal medicine is a great start on the way to homesteading. Here are some of our favourite resources:
https://blog.mountainroseherbs.com/
https://www.wanderinghoofranch.com/
https://www.almostzerowaste.com/