Take Action: Explore Mutual Aid Work

In this special summer series about taking action to care for community, Kiesha is taking a pause from interviews to share what she is learning about people who have led important movements in their communities along with the actions they are inspiring her to take.  

This episode features the writing of activist Dean Spade, who authored the book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) and has inspired Kiesha's current focus.  Mutual aid projects are a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions not just through symbolic acts or putting pressure on gov't representatives, but by actually building new social relations that are more survivable. 

Episode Resources:

• Buy the Book: Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade
• Learn about Dean Spade
• Video: We're All We've Got, We're All We Need: A Mutual Aid Explainer
• Organizations mentioned in this episode: 
  • Oakland Power Projects
  • SRLP (Sylvia Rivera Law Project)
  • About the BLACK PANTHER PARTY COMMUNITY SURVIVAL PROGRAMS @ BPPALN.org 

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