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How do you organize mutual aid in a city without power, water, and internet? (itsgoingdown.org)

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It's Going Down

How do you organize mutual aid in a city without power, water, and internet?

Don't miss our latest episode of This Is America, featuring an interview with someone from Rural Organizing and Resiliance (ROAR) and volunteers @firestorm in #Asheville.

We discuss how hundreds of people across the city came together following #HurricaneHelene in mass meetings and helped to organize autonomous disaster relief and mutual aid. ROAR speaks about the challenges of mobilizing in rural areas.

We also speak with the two hosts of 'The Dugout' a Black anarchist podcast, roundup resistance news, and talk about how Trump is already moving to contest the next election.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@db0 mutual aid is about helping people around you so you could organize mutual aid by helping people around you every day, not if when crisis arises. The problem is that they need organize mutual aid without internet because they conceptualize mutual aid wrong, mutual aid it is not about helping people far away from you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The point is not if mutual exists, but how to practice it. You also forget that the alienation we all experience from capitalism has left most people without the necessary knowledge to do direct action for mutual aid. Did you visit the article?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@db0 lucky enough I am not American. In my country people are not as individualized and alienated as in America, they are alienated of course but not that much.

What I mean is that there's no way to organize mutual aid in a crisis situation if there's no previous mutual aid organization before because mutual aid won't emerge from nothing. Mutual aid takes years or even decades to be organized.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

What I mean is that there’s no way to organize mutual aid in a crisis situation if there’s no previous mutual aid organization before because mutual aid won’t emerge from nothing. Mutual aid takes years or even decades to be organized.

I think many desaster responses actually show the opposite. Mutual aid can emerge spontaneously, structures get build within hours and people show that despite it all, they can help each other out.

Having knowledge, pre existing organizations and a more social day to day life can of course have a hugr positive impact