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Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a grassroots disaster relief network based on the principles of solidarity, mutual aid, and autonomous direct action. MADR envisions strong, vibrant, resilient, connected, and empowered individuals and communities as part of an awakened civil society that will restore hope following crisis, and turn the tide against disaster capitalism and climate chaos, in favor of a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world.
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Marks End of Convergence Center
This following report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief marks the closing of their autonomous space in Florida. To hear more about the community center and free clinic that they organized in the wake of...
Building the Movement for Mutual Aid: Spring Tour 2018
The following statement comes from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, and announces their spring tour in 2018 across parts of the US.
Friends,
I am so excited and grateful for this opportunity to organize our first “Building...
Dreaming With Our Hands: On Autonomy, In(ter)dependence, and the Regaining of the Commons
"Neighbors are collectivizing the means of survival and building for future resiliency. Many of these community centers are known as Centros de Apoyo Mutuo (CAMs), or Mutual-Aid Centers."
“It was like an atomic bomb went...
2017 Reflection: Unafraid of Ruins
2017 has been a busy year for us. We saw unprecedented disasters, both climate related and political. The storms are increasing in intensity and frequency, but so is our diverse movement’s power from below,...
The Disaster is the Colony
Rolling through the gates of west end Aquadilla’s Medium/Minimum security prison Institución Correccional de Guerrero, our view widens to capture barbed wire buildings, a generator screaming a guttural something off stage left and the...
This is Caguas: “Centro de Apoyo Mutuo”
"Apoyo Mutuo seized the space a month and a half ago. A month ago they defended it from policia who demanded to know their individual names."
The rest is Puerto Rico.
Centro de Apoyo Mutuo, Centers...
Dispatches from Puerto Rico: Front Line Relief
Our current Mutual Aid Disaster Relief team in Puerto Rico has concentrated efforts mostly on HIV/AIDS prevention, safe water outreach/education, breastfeeding in disasters and also is addressing other health needs with our team of...
Jayuya: Remembering the Past, Demanding a Future
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a movement decentralized throughout civil society linking and contextualizing the intersectional struggles of climate/social/environmental and economic justice, rooted and steeped in a power-from-below solidarity not charity ethos.
Throughout 2016/2017, Mutual...
Puerto Rico: No Longer Forgotten
As the days grind up in number, creating time and distance from the thrashing winds and surging inundation of the deluge of water hurricane Maria pulled over Puerto Rico, statistics remain alien from the...
Growing the Movement for Mutual Aid: Invite Trainers & Prepare Your Community for Grassroots...
Climate Chaos is happening. Adaptation and preparation are essential. Grassroots disaster response will be more and more necessary as we see more catastrophes – infrastructure, economic, and ecological collapses – and as corporations and governments...