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Connie M. Razza: “…we define mutual aid as an all-encompassing term for projects that provide direct and collective aid to people as a form of solidarity, often with an expressly political framework and the goal of long-term social change.”
Examples & Resources
Articles
American Friends Service Committee: How to create a mutual aid network. (Includes resource collection.)
The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs.
Future Currents: Building Power Through Mutual Aid: Lessons From the Field. (This is a significant, 58-page report on the state of mutual aid efforts in 2024. See the main takeaways from the report here.)
Mariame Kaba & Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Mutual Aid 101.
Dean Spade: Resources from the author of “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next.)
Books
Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes: Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard: Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.
Dean Spade: Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis.