Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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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.

Videos:

• Group conversation "We Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity" from Nov 2020 on the Barnard Center for Research on Women Youtube channel
• Dean Spade introduction on a live stream in Oct for a community book store
• Dean Spade and Mia Mingus Talk Mutual Aid on Bluestockings book store channel

Essays/reviews:

• https://roarmag.org/essays/dean-spade-mutual-aid-excerpt/
• https://portside.org/2021-01-27/building-solidarity

Ref:

• http://www.deanspade.net/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next/
• free teaching guide pdf
• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54654726-mutual-aid

related small publication http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jeff-shantz-mutual-aid-and-solidarity-against-crisis-green-syndicalist-reflections-on-covid-19