Were All Weve Got, Were All We Need: A Mutual Aid Explainer Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2019-07-11 | People are so frustrated and scared right now, and struggling to figure out what to do. Here's a new video created by Dean Spade and Ciro Carillo about how mutual aid projects can help us mobilize and survive the nightmarish conditions we are facing. Check out BigDoorBrigade.com for a mutual aid toolkit after you watch!
A Bridge Between Catastrophes: A Communal Response to Hurricane Debby Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2024-09-25 | The tenets of bridge building are a duality of concentration on environmental endpoints and foundational stability across the abyss which separates them. As Hurricane Debby trudged towards the west coast of so-called Florida, those sparking alive spaces of mutuality and survival in communities across the historical lands of the Tocobaga, Timucuan, Calusa, Seminole, and many other Indigenous nations, cried out from our respective endpoints to prepare for the catastrophe to come.As storms become normalized environmental endpoints, our communal recovery continues to work to shorten the abyss which separates us from ourselves, each other, and the land and its waterways we call home.
Its Not The Storms That Are The Culprits; Its The Elected Leaders Who Are Supposed To Protect Us Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2023-09-04 | An amazing short video by our friends @queerecojusticeproject. This is just a sneak peek of a soon to be released documentary called "Can't Stop Change" about Florida, disasters, mutual aid, queer liberation, and more. More info here: queerecoproject.org/cant-stop-change
Building Power Workshop Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2022-07-21 | Mutual Aid Disaster Relief and Footprint Project partner together to facilitate community built solar generators for disaster resilience and mutual aid in New Orleans at the John Thompson Legacy Center. All (Solar) Power to the People! Music by Hot 8 Brass Band | Get Up
When Wildfire Hits: Mutual Aid, Climate Justice, Racial Justice, and Organizing in Crisis Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2021-09-01 | Online presentation/workshop with tips and lessons learned doing mutual aid fire relief with Rogue Action Center, Willamette Action Collective, and Mask Oakland.
Malik Rahim on Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2021-06-24 | Malik Rahim speaks about Mutual Aid Disaster Relief after volunteers clear fallen trees and debris at his home following Hurricane Zeta in 2020.
Hurricane Florence Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Supply Distribution Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2021-06-24 | Mutual Aid Disaster Relief distributes supplies in North Carolina after Hurricane Florence.
Tyler Norman on Our History and Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2021-06-24 | Tyler Norman of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief discusses earthquake mutual aid relief in Mexico, shares some history, and announces upcoming popular education training/listening tour. 2017.
Unloading Water with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief - Tampa, FL Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2021-06-24 | Volunteers with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief unload a semi-truck of water by hand and in the rain after Hurricane Irma.
Shopping Cart Pulley in Utuado Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2021-06-24 | In Puerto Rico, the people engineer a pulley system to transport supplies across a collapsed bridge after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Swat Team Raid On Mutual Aid Disaster Relief - October 16, 2017 Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2021-06-24 | SWAT team raid on Mutual Aid Disaster Relief hub in Puerto Rico on October 16th, 2017. Heavily armed police in tactical gear, surrounded a church where Mutual Aid Disaster Relief was operating out of, and at gunpoint forced volunteers out at 3 a.m. The police asked if there was a hostage situation involving kidnapping, whether volunteers were "antifa", whether volunteers ever raised their fists, and whether we plan to overthrow the government. Volunteers feared for their lives, but continued their mutual aid work the same day.
Campamento Los Olvidados: Utuado, Puerto Rico Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2021-06-24 | Campamento Los Olvidados (Camp of the Forgotten) in Utuado, Puerto Rico after Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: Building the Movement for Mutual Aid Presentation Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2021-06-24 | Building the Movement for Mutual Aid: Presentation in Portland, OR. 2018
Christine Discussing Proyecto Apoyo Mutuo Solar Installation Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2021-06-24 | Christine Nieves discusses Proyecto Apoyo Mutuo, a mutual aid center formed after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief solar installation purchased from Box Power.
Mutual Aid Solar Install at Proyecto Apoyo Mutuo Timelapse Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2019-06-11 | On May 23, 2018, 3 days after the 8-month anniversary of Hurricane Maria’s landfall in Puerto Rico, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief’s PRRebuilds Sustainability and Ecological Resilience team arrived for the third time in Barrio Mariana, a small mountain community resting above Humacao. The purpose of this trip was to implement the first community owned and operated solar micro-grid in the area.This microgrid will provide reliable power to el Centro de Imaginación (the Imagination Center) which now houses a solar laundromat, provides spaces for community meetings and workshops, includes a library, a tool library, and offices for local student social workers currently developing and providing solutions for the community’s more elderly population. Rooms have been gutted and have been furnished with beds for volunteers, and there are plans developing for a hostel. There are also plans to allow for small business incubation and equipment sharing, such as a community run coffee shop idea that is brewing.Mutual Aid Disaster Relief partnered with BoxPower, Proyecto de Apoyo Mutuo and other Centros de Apoyo Mutuo to purchase this solar micro-grid system and strengthen the resiliency and ability of autonomous mutual aid centers and communities to support each other when responding to future storm events. The system can be dismantled and packed back into the shipping container on which it rests to protect the photovoltaic panels from being damaged during a storm. This ensures energy can be reinstalled immediately after a storm. The system also includes a generator as a backup power supply as added insurance.The BoxPower solar photovoltaic micro-grid system was installed at a nearby, abandoned school, taken over and repurposed by our movement friends to provide community needs and training, as well as house volunteers through the new Imagination Center (el Centro de Imaginación). The school was previously closed and vacated, another victim of one of Puerto Rico’s rounds of mass school closures — yet another front on which the larger fight against disaster capitalism on the island must be challenged and fought.The aim of the Mariana community, of the projects at el Centro de Imaginación, and of the mutual aid movement is to empower communities to become more autonomous and more self-sustaining.From food sovereignty to modular energy generation systems and other appropriate, sustainable technologies and processes, MADR sustainable design and engineering working groups seek to develop adaptive designs for unique solutions during disaster response and rebuilding.It is with that aim that Mutual Aid Disaster Relief stands in solidarity with the community of el barrio Mariana, Proyecto de Apoyo Mutuo, and other mutual aid movement allies to bring sustainable, community owned and operated solar microgrid systems to Puerto Rico.Installing solar microgrids at as many of the the mutual aid centers as possible, empowers these collectives with improved resilience and self-sustainability to respond during future storm events and provides a platform for energy transparency and accountability, allowing for a better understanding of individual and collective use and impacts, and a type of guide for better self-governance.As part of the Mutual Aid Disaster Relief sustainable design and engineering working group, encouraging and supporting community-directed reconstruction that emphasizes sustainable, appropriate technology and systems for critical needs and infrastructure, like water and energy, is imperative. Mutual aid teams and working groups share knowledge and skills in solidarity with community members, learning and developing new solutions and approaches to problem solving alongside community members.Resiliency depends on adaptability and autonomy. Puerto Rico stands at a crossroads of colonialism, disaster capitalism and climate chaos. Now is a critical opportunity to build the world we want to see and live in together. Puerto Rico is and has been a battleground – between people and profit; health and profit; environmental justice and profit. We must resist and rebuild together. Self-sustainability, resilience/y, mutual aid and solidarity ARE acts of resistance. We can replace existing oppressive institutions and mechanisms of society with self-organized counter-institutions. And there is no need to wait to create them until “after the revolution”.Mariana’s community developed solutions, embodied by the work and vision of the Proyecto de Apoyo Mutuo and the movement of Centros de Apoyo Mutuo throughout the island, is the tangible example of the vision we collectively hold, and is the seed of our solidarity.The following is a timelapse video of the install.
2 Weeks After Hurricane Michael In Panama City Mutual Aid Disaster Relief 2018-10-26 | This is a short video post-hurricane Michael in Panama City, FL showing a snapshot of the destruction and struggles of people affected.
