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Author: Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
About 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.
March 16
When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic
Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief about building an autonomous response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Community mobilizations for mutual aid and medical... Read Full Article
March 3
“Only the People Can Save the People”: Autonomous Relief Organizing in Puerto Rico Post-Quake
Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on growing autonomous relief efforts following the recent earthquakes. On January 7th, 2020, a 6.4 magnitude... Read Full Article
November 15
A Fire Burning: PG&E and the California Fire Crisis
Brief outline of responses to the recent wildfires in California and the role of PG&E. PG&E has failed the people of California.... Read Full Article
October 21
Apoyo Mutuo: Building Power in Paradise
Over two years after Hurricane Maria, the Centros de Apoyo Mutuo are still vibrant, people-powered, living examples of mutual aid and community-based... Read Full Article
October 7
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief to Launch “Building the Movement for Mutual Aid” Northeast Tour
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is launching a Northeast tour, “Building the Movement for Mutual Aid,” which begins on October 19th. See List... Read Full Article
September 24
Update on Autonomous Disaster Relief Efforts in the Bahamas, Texas, and Beyond
Report and update from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on their ongoing efforts in the Bahamas, the Southeast, and also in Texas. On... Read Full Article
July 11
Inspiration for Disaster Preparation as Hurricane Season Begins
As we enter hurricane season in the Atlantic and fire season in the West, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is compiling tips for... Read Full Article
May 16
A Parallel Movement Rising: On Mutual Aid and the Borderlands
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (MADR) discusses the growing amount of mutual aid projects based in the borderlands. In the blur of heat... Read Full Article
April 11
Concrete Can’t Keep us from Growing: On Spring and Dandelions
Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (MADR) on Midwest responses to devastating floods. As part of our 2018 Fall tour, we rolled... Read Full Article
December 29
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Tour Recap: Fall 2018
At the end of a long year, our second workshop tour is complete! Over the course of three months, we worked our... Read Full Article
December 17
Relief Nonprofit Bulldozes Hurricane Survivor Tent City
On December 11, 2018, in Panama City, Florida, a large tent city located in the parking lot of a church was transformed... Read Full Article
November 28
We Are Rooted Here: North Valley Mutual Aid
The following is a report back from the North Valley Mutual Aid group, which is organizing an autonomous response to the Camp... Read Full Article
November 14
Bonds Not Ballots
As another election year spectacle has come and gone, and as we inch closer to irreversible, cataclysmic shifts in our climate, we... Read Full Article
October 29
Lumberton, NC: Vision and Action
It’s hard to believe that over a month has already passed since Hurricane Florence dropped a seemingly endless supply of rain onto... Read Full Article
October 22
Landlords are Finishing What Hurricane Michael Started
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief discusses how poor and working-class tenants in housing projects in Panama City are being evicted in the wake... Read Full Article
October 15
Dual-Power in a Three-Way Fight: Critical Reflections on Hurricane Michael
Members of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief report from the ground in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Michael. On October 10, 2018,... Read Full Article
October 11
Mutual Aid Efforts in the Wake of Hurricane Michael
A report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief work from folks on the ground in Tallahassee, Florida in the wake of Hurricane Michael.... Read Full Article
October 8
(In)visible Disasters: Farmworkers and Hurricane Florence
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief brings us updates on autonomous disaster relief in farmworker communities. For more info on how to plug into... Read Full Article
September 24
They Don’t Care About Us, But We Keep Us Safe
An update from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief about ongoing efforts in areas hit hardest by hurricane Florence. It’s been over a week... Read Full Article
September 12
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Tour Begins
The “Building the Movement for Mutual Aid” Training Tour is back on the road this fall. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Trainers will be... Read Full Article
September 11
Hurricane Florence: What You Need to Know
One million people are being told to flee the east coast, as Hurricane Florence, described as “a monster,” heads towards the Carolinas.... Read Full Article
August 17
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Training in Durango, CO
From Saturday September 1st to Sunday, September 2nd, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief will be holding a free training in Durango, Colorado. Don’t... Read Full Article
July 16
Getting Ready in the Gulf
Mutual Aid Disaster relief is gearing up for a new round of intervention in the hurricane season; and offering skills and workshops... Read Full Article
June 14
Finishing One Training Tour & Beginning The Next!
Report and update from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, who announces their next tour. We are so happy to announce that our pilot-project,... Read Full Article
June 6
(Solar) Power to the People
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief discusses their ongoing campaign to install a solar powered energy system into a squatted school in Puerto Rico.... Read Full Article
February 4
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... Read Full Article
January 18
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,... Read Full Article
January 9
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... Read Full Article
December 27
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... Read Full Article
November 30
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... Read Full Article
November 26
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... Read Full Article
November 10
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... Read Full Article
October 31
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,... Read Full Article
October 19
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... Read Full Article
October 19
Growing the Movement for Mutual Aid: Invite Trainers & Prepare Your Community for Grassroots Direct Action Disaster Response
Climate Chaos is happening. Adaptation and preparation are essential. Grassroots disaster response will be more and more necessary as we see more catastrophes... Read Full Article
October 16
SWAT Team Raids Autonomous Relief Efforts in Puerto Rico
Several police vehicles, an armored tactical vehicle, and law enforcement personnel including swat team pointed their guns at relief workers while surrounding... Read Full Article
October 14
Puerto Rico: Building A Future Based On Mutual Aid
We drove through neighborhoods in the mountains with local residents and our comrades from Guaynabo, delivered food, cases of water, water purification... Read Full Article
October 11
Puerto Rico: Building Power While The Lights Are Out
A land abandoned is one in which no one has come to respond. That’s not the case in Puerto Rico. Thousands of... Read Full Article
October 10
Resistance is Disaster Relief
On this day, we must remember that for some communities, disasters have been unfolding for centuries, depriving people of life and liberty... Read Full Article
October 3
Against Colonialism & Neoliberalism: Solidarity with Puerto Rico
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is organizing response teams to continually travel to Puerto Rico and surrounding areas to assist with rebuilding sustainable, modular... Read Full Article