Mutual aid : building solidarity during this crisis (and the next)

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Mutual aid : building solidarity during this crisis (and the next)

Title remainder

building solidarity during this crisis (and the next)

Statement of responsibility

Dean Spade

Creator

• trueSpade, Dean, 1977-

Author

• trueSpade, Dean, 1977-

Subject

• trueCommunity activists
• trueCommunity organization
• Cooperativeness
• trueCrisis management
• trueCrisis management -- Social aspects
• trueGrassroots movement
• trueHuman behavior
• trueImprisonment
• Income distribution
• Mutual assistance
• trueMutualism
• trueOrganizational change
• truePolitical science
• trueRace relations
• Racial justice
• Social change -- Environmental aspects
• Social change -- Psychological aspects
• trueSocial justice
• trueSolidarity
• trueInterpersonal relations
• trueCommunities

Language

eng

Summary

"Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to - or actively engineer - each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support the vulnerable. Survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid. This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout. Writing for those new to activism as well as those who have been in social movements for a long time, Dean Spade draws on years of organizing to offer a radical vision of community mobilization, social transformation, compassionate activism, and solidarity."--Provided by publisher

Storyline

• trueIssue-oriented

Tone

• trueThought-provoking

Cataloging source

TOH

Dewey number

303.3/72

Illustrations

charts

Index

no index present

LC call number

HM671

LC item number

.S6865 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography