We are a network of neighbors organizing mutual aid in Durham
Durham, NC
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We are a network of neighbors organizing mutual aid in Durham.
#MutualAid is about recognizing that the dominant system is not meeting all of our needs for survival and that we can organize to meet each other’s needs now. durhammutualaid.org/
#MutualAid:
"the work we do in social movements to directly support each other’s survival needs, based on a shared understanding that the crises we are facing are caused by the system that we’re living under & are worsened by those systems."
-@deanspade
thenation.com/article/econom…
Do you desperately need the $600 stimulus check from the latest COVID relief bill?
(Sure, it would be nice, but do you NEED it?)
[THREAD from North Durham #MutualAid - Please RT!]
‘Solidarity, Not Charity’: A Visual History of Mutual Aid
"Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups."
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
#MutualAid #Abolition
"no matter who is in the White House ... we need #MutualAid to survive and to build resistance movements of hundreds of millions of people who can fight to stop the systems of extraction that govern our lives and build a world we can survive."—@deanspade
truthout.org/articles/mutual…
North Durham Mutual Aid believes that no one should have to choose between paying rent, paying utilities bills, and buying groceries or other basic necessities.
Please consider donating to support neighbors in need:
chuffed.org/project/ndma
#MutualAid
Durham Public Schools could potentially lay off workers because their food distribution program is being under utilized.
reddit.com/r/bullcity/commen…
The Lakewood neighborhood's #MutualAid group has a new community cash fund!
Check out @lkwdmutualaid and lakewoodmutualaid.org/
"In just the last few months, our communities have been physically distant, but socially committed to our survival through mutual aid and grassroots networks of care.
We keep us safe in ways that the police always promise, but never deliver."
durhambeyondpolicing.org/tim…
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Protesters camping in front of the Durham police department had their power source cut off today.
Can anyone lend them a generator and extension cords?
#BlackLivesMatter #DefundPolice #AbolishPolice
*Celebrate Juneteenth: Defund the Police*
5pm at Durham Police Headquarters
-FB event: facebook.com/events/93694162…
*Juneteenth Jail Demo!*
9pm at Durham Jail - 219 Mangum St.
#SixNineteen
#DefendBlackLives #BlackLivesMatter
#DefundPolice #AbolishThePolice
Awesome #MutualAid project in Minneapolis: occupying a hotel and turning it into a sanctuary!
Nearly 200 displaced and unsheltered people in south Minneapolis have opened a sanctuary in a south Minneapolis hotel in the memory of former shelter worker #GeorgeFloyd.
#CareNotCops
#AbolishPolice
#MutualAid
#HousingForAll
sanctuaryhotel.org/
Senior Solidarity Project in Durham, NC
Supply Drop-off Event on June 6th
facebook.com/events/27605082…
#MutualAid #COVID19 #Solidarity
#DefundThePolice protest in Durham, NC tonight!
#DurhamBeyondPolicing
"@BYP100 Durham Chapter stands in solidarity with Black people rising up across the country and demanding, no more!"
facebook.com/events/40428684…
#GeorgeFloyd #AbolishPolice
Protest in downtown Durham now!
#JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
#BlackLivesMatter #protests #Minneapolis #GeorgeFloyd
Rad interview with @deanspade on:
- the basics of #MutualAid
- some common pitfalls that can shift mutual aid efforts toward charity or social service models
- the dangers of demobilizing political engagement
- & tools folks can use to get started dispatchespodcast.com/2020/0…
"An emancipatory mutual aid is not only about connecting those in need to services or even directly providing services, but also about organizing with those in need to ...demand what is socially just from systems of exploitation and domination."roarmag.org/essays/emancipat…
"In the spirit of the Zapatista principle of mandar obedeciendo (“leadership from below”), efforts must be made to assure that the agency and voice of those receiving aid are equal to, or even ahead of, those providing it, despite the apparent disparity in resources."
#MutualAid
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"The pandemic marks the end of an era and the beginning of another – one whose harshness must be mitigated by a spirit of generosity."
#MutualAid
theguardian.com/world/2020/m…
We are a group of neighbors in Durham that are organizing to fix what the government won't. If you are in need of aid, or want to help our fellow Durhamites, please visit our website.
durhammutualaid.org/