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The Work of Lifetimes and Generations
(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...
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The Other Shore: Mutual Aid and Autonomous Infrastructure after Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwest Florida as a strong Category 4 storm. Ian caused a destructive 10- to 15-foot storm surge, trapping many people in the rising floodwaters across a wide...
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There Is No Climate Refuge Except in Each Other: Flooding and Mutual Aid in...
On Monday, July 10, 2023, residents throughout the northeast were flooded by a 1-in-100 year storm, brought on by the climate crisis. A few days later, intense rainfall continued to hit the region,...
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Mutual Aid and the Criminalization of Compassion: Humanitarian Aid Must Never...
Art by Declan Byrne (Belfast, Ireland); quote by Angela Davis Mutual aid is your neighbor bringing over a freshly baked blueberry pie because they know you love that kind and they love to bake. It’s...
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Through the Siege, Around the Army
By land and by sea, global mutual aid and solidarity work is rising to the occasion to meet another existential threat to humanity’s continued existence: war and genocide. In every disaster, mutual...
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A Pillar in the Land of Ruin: Mutual Aid at Willson Tower
When people think of vibrant mutual aid spaces, housing projects at the margins of concrete jungles aren’t usually what first come to mind. However, Willson Tower, one of the most underserved housing...
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A Bridge Between Catastrophes: A Communal Response to Hurricane Debby
The tenets of bridge building are a duality of concentration on environmental endpoints and foundational stability across the abyss which separates them. As Hurricane Debby trudged towards the west...
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On Sieges, Solidarity, and Solar
Borikén (Puerto Rico) is no stranger to sieges. La Junta de Control, PROMESA, the Jones Act, and other colonial policies have made imports to the island more difficult and costly, driving up prices,...
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Come Hell and High Water
This is about a storm some call Helene and others call Capitalism, Greed, Callous Neglect or the slow and then rapid degradation of the one and only Earth we’ve got. But it is also about a people, and...
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Survival in the Sunshine State: Mobilizing in the Wake of Helene and Milton
On September 24th, category 4 Hurricane Helene began gouging its destructive path across the southeast causing flooding along the gulf coast of Florida even before slamming at landfall into the Big...
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