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Mutual Aid Was Always Here
Introduction – A Personal Note on Mutual Aid What do you remember from the COVID-19 pandemic? The isolation? The grief? The loss? The loneliness? The (dis)connection? The static of Zoom calls, of emails, of the doomscroll, of screens and pixels and text? The goodbyes we didn’t get? I remember most of it in a distant,…
Read MoreThe Radical Past and Present of Mutual Aid
You may have noticed a boom of new mutual aid societies forming to respond to crises in recent years. This trend began in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and continued through 2025 in response to the U.S. government shutdown and immigration crackdowns. These groups share housing, food, health care, goods, or transportation while drawing attention…
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