Mutual Aid

Mutual Aid – Review

December 22, 2025 Gerry Hart, Red Pepper. Organize! Basic Necessities, Community organizing, Failed State, Mutual Aid

First published during the Covid-19 pandemic, Dean Spade’s pocket-sized book on mutual aid, detailing its opportunities and pitfalls, is only likely to become more necessary. Indeed, a revised and expanded edition will be published in 2026. The ‘next’ crisis of the book’s title points to an entanglement of ever-increasing, ever-present dangers. We face a confluence of climate change and environmental breakdown, wealth inequality, austerity, housing crises, the rise of the far right, and the imposition of harsher policies towards migrants, LGBTQI+ communities and political protesters – each likely to be amplified, in ways that we may not have yet considered, by the intensifying effects of AI.

Santa Claus Impersonators, Masked Elves Steal From The Rich

December 21, 2025 Leora Schertzer, Montreal Gazette. Resist! Canada, Food Security, Montreal, Mutual Aid

A group of Santa Claus impersonators and a band of masked elves appear to have stolen thousands of dollars of food from a Metro grocery store in the Plateau neighbourhood Monday night. The group claiming to be behind the heist calls itself Robins des ruelles, inspired by Robin Hood. Videos of the alleged heist circulated on social media, showing individuals dressed as Santa and masked elves swarming the store. The grocery store — located on Laurier Ave. near Chambord St. — was robbed at 9:40 p.m. Monday, Montreal police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant confirmed.

Building Social Wealth Through Mutual Aid

December 6, 2025 David Bollier. Create! Community Wealth, Mutual Aid, The Commons, Time Banks

As market economies become more expensive and predatory, Stephanie Rearick is showing that it’s entirely possible to meet people’s needs effectively through care and cooperation, through a kind of alternative social economy. For more than twenty years, Rearick has championed mutual aid and cooperative economics through such projects as the Madison Mutual Aid Network Cooperative and the Dane County TimeBank, both of which she founded. Rearick also works internationally through Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks, a global network of networks dedicated to building mutual aid economy.

Mutual Aid Group Strengthens Community, Reframes Problem Solving

November 18, 2025 LibWilliams, Stanwood Camano News. Organize! Community organizing, Direct Democracy, Mutual Aid, People's Assemblies

Emily “Kimmy” Kim and Mary Ellen Wood have a shared vision to bring grassroots community networks to the Stanwood-Camano area. In March of this year, the Mutual Aid Assembly of Stanwood-Camano was born to bring that vision to life. Kim said the group has hosted about 10 meetings and several events with a focus on working together to solve problems and learn from each other. “We’ve kind of determined that our broad vision is to build grassroots networks of community care through group problem-solving, decision-making and action,” she said.

Kentucky Organizers Fill The Gaps As SNAP Delays Leave Families In Limbo

November 10, 2025 Anabel Peterman, Next City. Organize! Food Access, Food Security, Food stamps, Government Shutdown, Kentucky, Mutual Aid, SNAP

“I was expecting, maybe, four of us?” Willa Johnson remarked, earning a few laughs around the table. She sat among about 20 familiar friends and new faces. Most were residents of Letcher County in southeast Kentucky. All were committed to helping their neighbors through food insecurity amid the federal government shutdown. Two days earlier, Johnson made a post in a new mutual aid Facebook group, ‘Kinfolks Feeding Kinfolks,’ asking for locals to help fill the gap if the shutdown halted food aid benefits. She gave a statement, date, time, location and a plea to leave politics at the door. “After the floods in 2022, we saw the very best of that neighborly love in action.

As SNAP Benefits Dry Up, Philly Organizations Pivot To Meet Needs

November 3, 2025 Pryce Jamison, Next City. Organize! Austerity, Food Access, Mutual Aid, Philadelphia, SNAP

Linda James-Rivera says she’s seeing some of the highest levels of food insecurity in her Philadelphia communities since she founded the Northwest Mutual Aid Collective during the pandemic. “I just signed up five families in two days,” James-Rivera says of the group’s free delivery service, providing fresh produce and pantry essentials to seniors, disabled residents and low-income families across Northwest Philly. “That is the first time that has ever happened.” With the government shutdown still underway, she is one of many organizational leaders preparing for Nov. 1, when approximately 42 million citizens across the nation will lose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, food benefits.

Opening Up Space

October 5, 2025 Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, Working Class Stories. Create! Austerity, Community, Mutual Aid, Public Spaces

“He said ‘just don’t touch my workshop,’” says Sheurle Klingsmith, smiling at her husband, Kirk. “But then one day, he moved his tools out so we could go ahead.” “That’s not exactly how I remember it,” Kirk laughs good-naturedly. Today, Kirk’s tools are pushed back against the wall, and the rest of the space is filled with tables and chairs, art and art supplies. Paintings hang on every wall, and illustrations, beadwork, fabric art, and even chainsaw art are displayed throughout the room. Gesturing to a black bear carved out of a log done by DC Carvings, Sheurle says: “This gentleman was selling his work on the side of the road, so of course I circled back and asked him if he wanted to display some pieces here.” Her eyes scan the room: “There’s a mountain of creativity and talent in this town, but no place to show it.”

Insurrectionary Utopias Part 1: Ideas Towards A Liberatory Mutual Aid

September 17, 2025 Scott Crow, Agency. Organize! Collective Liberation, Disasters, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid

Despair, grief, and fear color much of our days, often challenging our hopes for the future. These emotions have seeped into daily conversations, media portrayals, and the very fabrics of our lives. Our fragile social bonds in civil society have been pushed to the brink due to ongoing disasters, crises and seeming uncertainty we all face. Despite the beautiful, historic gains made against Power (1), and the inspiring uprisings and rebellions since the turn of the millennium — undermining the very foundations of U.S. historical and systemic oppression — a loss for what-to-do characterizes much of our reflections. Civil society is unraveling due to an unsustainable civilization, the multi-year COVID-19 pandemic, an ongoing climate emergency, and the usurping of 20th century “democratic” institutions by right-wing forces with fascistic dreams.

Resisting Disaster Capitalism Through Mutual Aid In Puerto Rico

September 9, 2025 Ester Dazzo, Transnational Institute. Create! climate crisis, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid, Puerto Rico

Since 2016, Puerto Rico has faced a complex crisis, when it declared bankruptcy, worsening a fiscal crisis after a decade of recession. In response, Obama signed the PROMESA law, aiming to restructure the debt and enforce fiscal responsibility. It created the Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), a body comprised of seven members appointed by the US President, which can override local laws, blatantly highlighting Puerto Rico's colonial status. In 2017, the Board imposed a ten-year plan of austerity, cutting budgets for healthcare, education, and other vital services. The inability of the government to deal with the economic crisis led to an increase in political distrust.

LA Unites To Provide Mutual Aid For Those Impacted By ICE Raids

August 23, 2025 Victoria Valenzuela, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! ICE, Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles, Mutual Aid

At 8 a.m. on July 4, about a dozen people gathered in front of a tamale cart stationed outside an abandoned 99-cent store building in Pasadena, California — some 10 miles outside of Los Angeles. While the tamales were delicious, that wasn’t the only thing drawing out the crowd — they were there for a fundraiser to support 14-year-old Chris Garcia, who started running his mom’s cart after ICE took some of her customers a few weeks earlier. Her business suffered, and she fell behind in bills, so Garcia stepped up. An hour after the event started, the lowrider car community came cruising and bouncing down the street in support of Garcia. People started buying tamales by the dozens.

Texas Residents Launch Grassroots Efforts For Post-Flood Disaster Relief

July 15, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Organize! Extreme weather, Flooding, Mutual Aid, Socialism, Texas

Disastrous flash flooding in Central Texas in the beginning of July left at least 121 people dead. Rescue teams continue to search for the over 170 people still missing. The floods now rank among the deadliest natural disasters for children in the US in recent decades. 36 children lost their lives in Kerr County alone. Amid the loss of life, many argue that the flood deaths were preventable, with some pointing to the failure of local officials to implement a flood warning system. The editorial board of the Houston Chronicle published an editorial advocating for systems that would ensure more flood recovery and preparedness, writing “what’s most difficult to process is that these deaths were largely preventable.”

As Fires Consumed California, Small Towns Organized Their Own Defense

July 14, 2025 Margaret Elysia Garcia, Truthout. Organize! California, Communities, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid, Public safety, Wildfires

If you live in a national forest in California, odds are pretty high that at some point or another you’ve been ordered to evacuate. In Indian Valley, for the first twelve days, many of our residents did indeed evacuate, but a significant number stayed behind. Some residents had livestock to look after and often no solid indication of where they could take their animals that wouldn’t also need to be evacuated soon. With so many towns evacuating at once, some didn’t want to stay in evacuation shelters where the lights would be on all day and night and the likelihood of catching COVID was high.

Systems Are Breaking And That’s Our Opportunity

July 12, 2025 Jem Bendell, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Strategize! Failed State, Mutual Aid, Solidarity Economy, Sustainability, The Commons

A few months ago, I reconnected with a friend whom I had worked with on an initiative on ‘the sharing economy’. At the time, we were both ‘Young Global Leaders’ (YGLs) with the World Economic Forum. It was 2013, and we had volunteered our time to bring attention to how new technologies could be used to help everyone have a good life with less ecological impact. Personally, we were imagining a future of peer-to-peer resource sharing, community-based production, and cooperative ownership. Meeting up after years, we laughed that our work had oddly contributed to the World Economic Forum publishing the line that became infamous as a globalist’s dystopian injunction: “You will own nothing and be happy.”

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