Image: from How a Year of Mutual Aid Fed Minneapolis.
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.”
Resources
Stand With Minnesota: (This page is an incredible model for any area.)
Dean Spade: Resources from the author of “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next.)
Articles for Building Mutual Aid Networks
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.
Scot Nakagawa: Mutual Aid: From Surviving to Thriving.
Barbara Rodriguez: ‘We have to keep showing up for each other’: In Minnesota, caregiving is a form of resistance.
Books
Dani Burlison & Margaret Elysia Garcia (editors): Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country.
Jimmy Dunson (editor): Building Power While the Lights are Out Disasters, Mutual Aid, and Dual Power.
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.
Rebecca Solnit: Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities.
Dean Spade: Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis.