
Mutual Aid
Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
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Narrated by:
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Stephen R. Thorne
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By:
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Dean Spade
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.
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So Good!
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A Must Read!
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An excellent primer on collective good
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Very helpful
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great intro to mutual aid
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as it is, when you hit that slow-moving section that doesn't translate well to audiobook format, just skip to the next chapter.
abridge this for audio format
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surprisingly useful advice for work as well as MA
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Great resource to learn about mutual aid!
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The book provides a good structure for developing a mutual aid program, but is far too critical of hierarchical response models. While the ideal approach to organizing a group is rooted in a non-heirarchical model, it fails to place any value on existing response measures that, while perhaps not always perfect under duress, can provide essential support when time does not allow for extensive deliberation.
A focus on leveraging hierarchical systems in concert with grassroots lateral efforts, both in pre-emergency planning and during crisis response would be a good addition to this work.
An ideal perspective but not entirely new
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