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November 2022 Take Action Online Event Session II
During the second half of our event series, Mutual Aid in the Great Unraveling, we learned how each of us can get involved and promote mutual aid efforts within our own communities--regardless of where we are.
PANELIST BIOS:
Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s an author, documentary director, and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), offers both a theoretical understanding of mutual aid and practical tools for sustaining this crucial movement work. Spade defines mutual aid as “collective coordination to meet each other’s needs, usually from an awareness that the systems we have in place are not going to meet them. Those systems, in fact, have often created the crisis.”
Joanna Swan, harm reductionist and organizer with Streetwatch LA, trained by and in coalition with Skid Row organizers at Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN). Streetwatch works with unhoused communities to fight the criminalization of poverty, and acknowledges that collective liberation and an end to homelessness will not be achieved through charity frameworks that ultimately serve to uphold racial capitalism. Joanna is currently organizing with unhoused tenants of a COVID-funded Project Roomkey hotel as they fight for dignity and permanent housing, in the face of evictions and compounded harm from the city.
Aliza Tuttle is a Senior Research Assistant at Portland State University. She is a Food Action Team Facilitator for the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition and co-founded It’s On Us Corvallis (IOU) as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. When Tuttle saw the effects on the local food community and on the community-at-large she wanted to do something that brought people together and challenged emergency food systems, charity, and the meaning of food aid.
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November 2022 Take Action Online Event Session II
During the second half of our event series, Mutual Aid in the Great Unraveling, we learned how each of us can get involved and promote mutual aid efforts within our own communities--regardless of where we are.
PANELIST BIOS:
Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s an author, documentary director, and the creator of the mutual aid toolkit at BigDoorBrigade.com. His latest book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), offers both a theoretical understanding of mutual aid and practical tools for sustaining this crucial movement work. Spade defines mutual aid as “collective coordination to meet each other’s needs, usually from an awareness that the systems we have in place are not going to meet them. Those systems, in fact, have often created the crisis.”
Joanna Swan, harm reductionist and organizer with Streetwatch LA, trained by and in coalition with Skid Row organizers at Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN). Streetwatch works with unhoused communities to fight the criminalization of poverty, and acknowledges that collective liberation and an end to homelessness will not be achieved through charity frameworks that ultimately serve to uphold racial capitalism. Joanna is currently organizing with unhoused tenants of a COVID-funded Project Roomkey hotel as they fight for dignity and permanent housing, in the face of evictions and compounded harm from the city.
Aliza Tuttle is a Senior Research Assistant at Portland State University. She is a Food Action Team Facilitator for the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition and co-founded It’s On Us Corvallis (IOU) as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. When Tuttle saw the effects on the local food community and on the community-at-large she wanted to do something that brought people together and challenged emergency food systems, charity, and the meaning of food aid.
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