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RE: #Indiana folks may have more local information to share.
Edit: IGD posted one
https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/117149027762834596

This post is not a provocation so much as a report-back from the fragmented thinking that has bubbled up around my research
and the thousand-odd hours I've put into information mutual aid work over the course of this year.
And it’s also a look forward
—not at our future, which I refuse to try to predict,
but at some paths I think we might want to explore.
-- Erin Kissane
@…

Landslide; a ghost story
On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end of a fjord—a narrow inlet carved by a glacier.

Blues Concert Happy Hour: Fundraiser for Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid
Featuring DC Blues Legend Robert Lighthouse
Friday, July 3, 5:00 PM until 9:00 PM
3305 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20010
Come down alley, entry through side gate
Donation at the door. Suggested $25. Help us get to $3K goal.
Refreshments, food, music, community.
#music

He went out to buy food and was abducted by ICE in Barrio Obrero. Mutual Aid networks can help can help you stay safe. (Caño Martin Peña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 7/12/26, 1:13 PM)
Source
https://iceout.org/en/reportInfo/129855

RE: #russiaukrainewar #hungary

"How clean air clubs are protecting Americans from wildfire smoke"
#US #USA #America #Wildfires

How clean air clubs are protecting Americans from wildfire smoke
Mutual aid groups that started giving out PPEs during COVID are now loaning air purifiers and distributing masks to fume-addled communities

In the past, I would have argued that projects like No Trace (https://www.notrace.how/) were a bit much for normal operations, that security is always balanced against accessibility, that they often end up followed without thought at the detriment of organizing.
This is not something I'm arguing, at least not as much, now. It is time to adjust your threat models. Things that were relatively safe are no longer safe. Things that were considered too radical need to be brought on to the table.
This will not get better until it is made better. The normal paths of making things better, of community building and mutual aid, are being closed. Build connections while you still can and decide what you will do when you no longer can organize in the open.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/117149027762834596
I'm gonna bump this again because this is part of what I've been talking about for a long time. The state is withdrawing. People are suffering because the system they depend on is collapsing. We have an opportunity to fill that gap.
If we do what the state can't, we do more than a thousand arguments ever could. We show people what we're actually talking about. We show that systems built for people can actually work. More importantly, we can actually help people who need help.
This is mutual aid. As the polycrisis continues to compound, there may well come a time when you need services the state or capitalist markets used to provide and they aren't there. By building power in the face of failure, you improve your chances that someone else will be able to do the same for you.