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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.
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 preparing communities to take care of each other in the spirit of...
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 rising from the searing sands of the Sonoran Desert, there is a cascade...
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 through Lincoln, Nebraska. Friends there have continued to discuss and organize, and when...
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 way from Albuquerque to San Diego, then north toward Seattle, and across...
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 into a demolition site. Hundreds of people were left with nowhere to...
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 Fire from Chico, CA. Originally published on Mutual Aid Disaster Relief.WHO WE...
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 are reminded that our hope is in each other, in relationships of...
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 eastern North Carolina.We reflect back on the Indigenous led relief efforts out...
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 of Hurricane Michael.
A call to action.Hundreds of residents in low income housing...
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, Hurricane Michael swept into the Florida panhandle with a ferocity unlike anything seen...