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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.

Nov 9, 22

The Other Shore: Mutual Aid and Autonomous Infrastructure after Hurricane Ian

Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on autonomous relief efforts and infrastructure set up in response to Hurricane Ian. Hurricane Ian made... Read Full Article

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Aug 3, 22

The Work of Lifetimes and Generations

Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief on recent projects and mobilizations across the so-called US. It has been too long since we... Read Full Article

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Mar 16, 22

Introducing the Relief Toolkit, A Platform for Connecting Across Disasters

Introducing the Relief Toolkit, a platform for connecting across disasters. Originally posted to Mutual Aid Disaster Relief. We’re so excited to announce that... Read Full Article

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Jul 12, 21

Kairos: A Mutual Aid Exodus From Empire

Report from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief about the massive and deadly impact on the coronavirus epidemic and the importance of continued mutual... Read Full Article

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Oct 6, 20

The Future is Now: Overlapping Constant Disaster and Mutual Aid as Survival Strategy

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief looks at the growing network of autonomous mutual aid projects in midst of increasing climate chaos and the... Read Full Article

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Sep 9, 20

Autonomous Disaster Relief Efforts Are Organizing in the Face of Wildfires & Hurricanes

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (MADR) presents a list of efforts aimed at combating the recent wave of natural disasters. There is a... Read Full Article

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Jun 11, 20

Radically Redistributing Mutual Aid

A call from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief to spread skills and resources to as many places as possible. Over the past three... Read Full Article

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Mar 16, 20

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

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Mar 3, 20

“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

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Nov 15, 19

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

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Oct 21, 19

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

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Oct 7, 19

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

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Sep 24, 19

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

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Jul 11, 19

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

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May 16, 19

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

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Apr 11, 19

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

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Dec 29, 18

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

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Dec 17, 18

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

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Nov 28, 18

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

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Nov 14, 18

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

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Oct 29, 18

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

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Oct 22, 18

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

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Oct 15, 18

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

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Oct 11, 18

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

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Oct 8, 18

(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

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Sep 24, 18

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

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Sep 12, 18

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

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Sep 11, 18

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

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Aug 17, 18

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

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Jul 16, 18

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

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Jun 14, 18

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

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Jun 6, 18

(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

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Feb 4, 18

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

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Jan 18, 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

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Jan 9, 18

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

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Dec 27, 17

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

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Nov 30, 17

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

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Nov 26, 17

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

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Nov 10, 17

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

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Oct 31, 17

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

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