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Democracy Now! Segment on Mutual Aid

I had the great pleasure of appearing on Democracy Now! today with my favorite thinker/talker/doer, Mariame Kaba, to talk about the growing network of mutual aid projects and pods responding to COVID-19, and the broader context of mutual aid in left social movements.

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Animated video about mutual aid!

Things are rough right now. A lot of people are pissed, scared, and overwhelmed. What can we do? Does it make a difference to vote? To post on social media? This video is about mutual aid as a key strategy of resistance, survival, and mobilization.

 Mutual aid projects are a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions, not just through symbolic acts or putting pressure on their representatives in government, but by actually building new social relations  that are more survivable. Watch this video, and check out the mutual aid toolkit to start your own local projects.  

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Building Accountable Communities Video Series

Please watch and share this new video series featuring Shannon Perez-Darby, Kiyomi Fujikawa, and Mariame Kaba, produced by me and Hope Dector. 

Accountability is a familiar buzz-word in contemporary social movements, but what does it mean? How do we work toward it? What does it look like to be accountable to survivors without exiling or disposing those who do harm? We made four short videos featuring Kiyomi Fujikawa and Shannon Perez-Darby talking about these issues, and then recorded a live discussion between Shannon, Kiyomi, and Mariame exploring models for building accountable communities for the purpose of healing and repair. 

The online event:

Part 1: What is Accountability?

Part 2: What is Self-Accountability?

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