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Mutual Aid

Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

by Dean Spade

Narrator Stephen R. Thorne

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Length 4 hours 41 minutes

Language English

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“This informative guide provides tools that can be used to implement solidarity-based care. Examples are provided from the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, co-founded by the author.”
— tans*fabeö • trans*fabel

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“If you’re feeling hopeless and want some tangible ways to help, read this! Dean Spade lays out a brief orientation/how-to manual on mutual aid and community organising. There are SO many small ways to build solidarity, whoever you are, beginning with your community. From providing rides to doctor's appointments/abortions/immigration appts. Raising money and supplies for recently released prisoners. Grocery shopping for immunocompromised people. Just to name a few. Spade defines mutual aid, highlighting misconceptions, and emphasises it is NOT charity. This was a super quick read and an accessible guide. He includes charts for clarity and extends this guide to all collaborative work and navigating power dynamics. Solidarity begins with you, your neighbours, and your community. ”
— Ryann • The Buzzed Word

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“There will never be a time when this book isn't relevant, but you absolutely HAVE to read this right now. Find and form your community asap. ”
— Summer • Under the Umbrella

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“A great entry point for those looking to get involved in movement work!”
— Carling • Under the Umbrella

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Summary

Around the globe, people are faced with a spiraling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support the vulnerable. Survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid.This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout. Writing for those new to activism as well as those who have been in social movements for a long time, Dean Spade draws on years of organizing to offer a radical vision of community mobilization, social transformation, compassionate activism, and solidarity.

Politics & Economy Nonfiction Social Science