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Radically Redistributing Mutual Aid
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...
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The Future is Now: Overlapping Constant Disaster and Mutual Aid as Survival...
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 have...
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Welcome to Hurricane Season (June 2021) – A Report Back from West Street...
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...
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Kairos: A Mutual Aid Exodus From Empire
Starting in 2019/2020 and now continuing into the summer of 2021, global civil society is witnessing the biggest neoliberal disaster capitalist shock yet: COVID-19. Millions of people have been and...
View ArticleIntroducing the Relief Toolkit, a platform for connecting across disasters
We’re so excited to announce that the Grassroots Disaster Relief Toolkit, a website platform supporting communication across our decentralized network’s disaster efforts, is now live! In collaboration...
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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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