Building Our Power

Topics discussed:

⁃ Is mutual aid beneficial?

⁃ What's the history of mutual aid in the US?

- Are people who reject mutual aid living sustainably already?

***DISCLAIMER:

We asked @barokmeca for permission to talk about our conversation on this episode - he agreed.

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Works Cited

https://hoodcommunist.org/tag/mutual-aid/

https://www.leftvoice.org/mutual-aid-networks-toward-a-constructive-critique/

https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-abolition-mutual-aid-spotlight-ujimaa-medics

http://www.deanspade.net/projects/black-agenda-report-abolition-mutual-aid-spotlight/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-22/a-visual-history-of-mutual-aid

https://imhojournal.org/articles/mutual-aid-beyond-the-welfare-state-from-a-decolonial-perspective/

Topics discussed:

⁃ Is 100k working class?

⁃ Why Marx's analysis isn't enough.

⁃ What the petite bourgeoisie can do to redistribute wealth.

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usacovidmutualaid.org/

https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-c...

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Works Cited

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite_bourgeoisie

https://www.dukeupress.edu/left-of-karl-marx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Marxism:_The_Making_of_the_Black_Radical_Tradition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Black_Marxists

Topics discussed:

⁃ Community gardens are a tool for capitalism

⁃ The reason governments are pushing us to grow our own food

⁃ What is a better alternative

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Mutual Aid:

mutualaid.nyc/

usacovidmutualaid.org/

www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-com…mutual-aid-network

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Works Cited

http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/15387/etd8889_GSteinberg.pdf

⁃Community gardens are a tool for capitalism

http://summit.sfu.ca/system/files/iritems1/15387/etd8889_GSteinberg.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid_(organization_theory)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_gardening

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/two-toronto-members-short-circuit-towards-an-anarchist-approach-to-gentrification

Topics discussed:

- Abortion Ban in Texas

- Electoral Politics is dead

- Rant

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mutualaid.nyc/

usacovidmutualaid.org/

www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-com…mutual-aid-network

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Topics discussed:

- S*x Work

- Labor

- What can we do to help s*x workers?

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usacovidmutualaid.org/

www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-com…mutual-aid-network

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Works Cited:

https://proletarianfeminist.medium.com/the-problem-with-the-phrase-sex-work-is-work-bdac613eb2f0

https://www.facebook.com/1443072095/posts/10227530696320030/?d=n

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/c-b-daring-j-rogue-deric-shannon-and-abbey-volcano-queering-anarchism#toc68

https://youtu.be/PPNbYtv0Gpo

Topics discussed:

- Leftist Anti-Voting

- Indigenous People didn't use colonial voting systems.

- Electoral Politics is a reality tv show.

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Mutual Aid:

https://mutualaid.nyc/

http://usacovidmutualaid.org/

https://www.afsc.org/blogs/news-and-commentary/how-to-create-mutual-aid-network

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Works Cited:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aotearoa-workers-solidarity-movement-why-we-don-t-vote

https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%27s_Rules_of_Order

Topics discussed:

⁃ Landlord facebook group?

- Memphis Rental Crisis

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Mutual Aid:

https://www.mutualaidhub.org/mutual-aid.app/(please donate directly to people if possible, or ask a neighbor if they need help with yard work/groceries/etc. Searching the words "mutual aid" or "funds" on most social network platforms allows you to find people in need which goes directly to them)

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Topics discussed:

⁃All billionaires are evil. Even Rihanna!

⁃America being the biggest gaslighters

⁃Our “Don’t Vote” Campaign

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Mutual Aid:www.mutualaidhub.org/mutual-aid.app/(please donate directly to people if possible, or ask a neighbor if they need help with yard work/groceries/etc. Searching the words "mutual aid" or "funds" on most social network platforms allows you to find people in need which goes directly to them)

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Welcome to part 3 of our Monday School Series on the Combahee River Collective Statement.


Reading starts at: 2:10

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Mutual Aid:

www.mutualaidhub.org/
mutual-aid.app/
(please donate directly to people if possible, or ask a neighbor if they need help with yard work/groceries/etc. Searching the words "mutual aid" or "funds" on most social network platforms allows you to find people in need which goes directly to them)


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Works Cited:

Combahee River Collective Statement: www.blackpast.org/african-american…-statement-1977/

Welcome to part 2 of our Monday School Series on the Combahee River Collective Statement.


Reading starts at: 3:00

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Mutual Aid:
twitter.com/Aidmemfunds/statu...
www.mutualaidhub.org/
mutual-aid.app/
(please donate directly to people if possible, or ask a neighbor if they need help with yard work/groceries/etc. Searching the words "mutual aid" or "funds" on most social network platforms allows you to find people in need which goes directly to them)


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Works Cited:

Combahee River Collective Statement: www.blackpast.org/african-american…-statement-1977/