Tootfinder

"Lately I’ve started to argue that we should never refer to single projects as mutual aid. After all, mutual aid describes a relationship, it is a pattern that stretches across entire ecosystems. And it’s one of the most revolutionary concepts and practices at the heart of anarchism, and of stateless societies throughout history. With the explosion of “mutual aid projects” in the wake of the pandemic, it’s only healthy to worry about leftists1 and NGOs stealing the word from us and watering it down into a hip new form of charity, the way they systematically try to steal subversive concepts from us and pacify them, stabilize them, as they’re doing with transformative justice and abolition, intersectional and queer, as they did a long time ago with socialism (which referred to all currents of anticapitalism, until 1876 when a certain academic broke solidarity and destroyed a growing tool of internationalist organizing to keep from losing control over it...)
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Scarcity and lack of care make us afraid in a way that roots deeply in our bodies and hearts. If we find something free, we take it, maybe we take a whole lot of it so we can stockpile, and we don’t look back. And we’ll take it again and again and again—whether it’s food or love or medical supplies or respect—before we notice the expectation that there isn’t going to be any tomorrow, the deep-seated belief that we don’t deserve this thing… before we’re able to stop, and turn around, and notice the person taking care of us, and give back."

Reflections on #MayDay, #MutualAid and #DisabilityJustice by @….
https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/may-day

"Lately I’ve started to argue that we should never refer to single projects as mutual aid. After all, mutual aid describes a relationship, it is a pattern that stretches across entire ecosystems. And it’s one of the most revolutionary concepts and practices at the heart of anarchism, and of stateless societies throughout history. With the explosion of “mutual aid projects” in the wake of the pandemic, it’s only healthy to worry about leftists1 and NGOs stealing the word from us and watering it down into a hip new form of charity, the way they systematically try to steal subversive concepts from us and pacify them, stabilize them, as they’re doing with transformative justice and abolition, intersectional and queer, as they did a long time ago with socialism (which referred to all currents of anticapitalism, until 1876 when a certain academic broke solidarity and destroyed a growing tool of internationalist organizing to keep from losing control over it...)
[...]
Scarcity and lack of care make us afraid in a way that roots deeply in our bodies and hearts. If we find something free, we take it, maybe we take a whole lot of it so we can stockpile, and we don’t look back. And we’ll take it again and again and again—whether it’s food or love or medical supplies or respect—before we notice the expectation that there isn’t going to be any tomorrow, the deep-seated belief that we don’t deserve this thing… before we’re able to stop, and turn around, and notice the person taking care of us, and give back."

Reflections on #MayDay, #MutualAid and #DisabilityJustice by @….
https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/may-day

<3 had a lovely time organizing different things between different LGBT groups
you know, they also had... a facebook group
*gasp!*
(I think the local mutual aid did much more positively for my life, than that angry "grr, no threads, queers don't use threads" conversation on fedi)
(and... guess what... organizing will continue on any platform, regardless of whatever tech absolutists think)

Boosting https://mstdn.social/@XoGloomnrainbows/111874936245396113

The #EzraMutualAid raid train starts today at 19:00 BST, 14:00 Eastern, 11:00 Pacific!
There's so many great streamers, and I've got some treats planned with trash games and Karaoke!
I'd love for you to join me, Fri 19th 17:00/12:00/09:00 and Sun 21st 15:00/10:00/07:00 (BST/Eastern/Pacific).

Open Collective Foundation has refused to extend their irresponsible shutdown schedule by even a week, and so donations for hundreds of mutual aid groups across the US stop tomorrow.
7 Minneapolis collectives are trying to move to People Who Give a Damn, Inc.
That organization does not have staff to be a full service fiscal host, but we are all trying to solicit any and all help to cobble together volunteers, new part-time staff, and pro bono expert advisors to up its offerings …

Boosting https://mstdn.social/@XoGloomnrainbows/111874936245396113

We are but 2 days away from the #EzraMutualAid raid train!
It's gonna be so much fun, and I'd love for you to join me, Fri 19th 17:00 (BST) and Sun 21st 15:00 (BST). In fact, you should join us all!

armchair activist: "you can't be working with housing contractors and realtors to try to make stuff affordable"
meanwhile, sweat equity programs where one foreman helps people build their houses
or: "you work with the moderates? how dare you"
or: "you work with the progressives and not the anarchists? you obviously aren't aligned with mutual aid"
or: "you work with a politician for the dems? how are you going to change things?"
approximately: "you must forego all systems of organized support, you must do this thing entirely keto"
my friend,
reality of it is, you need money to buy land, or you need the city council to donate the sewer
you need friends
as you advocate for better things
we can't do /everything/ as principled standoffish jerks
there's definitely things we can be punk about
but it really damn helps when you have a super awesome city council member you helped get elected
yeah, the system is busted
but it'll take time and **friends** to change it.

In about an hour (15:00 BST), it's time for the Karaoke stream, where incentives and goals will be negotiable!
Join me for #EzraMutualAid
https://twitch.tv/djnrrd

In about an hour (17:00 BST) I'll be going live with a pile of trash PS2 games for #EzraMutualAid!
https://twitch.tv/djnrrd

What i came here to post about is the immediate need Near North camp / Minneapolis Northside Mutual Aid and the Gertrude Brown Community Land Trust coming out of that need for replacing Open Collective Foundation, which has precipitously shut down:
https://urbanists.social/@nearnorth/112006548972898093