Jessica Canham co-founded the award-winning video production company LINK International Productions, and manages Caapi Cottage Retreats, a transformational retreat center on the island of Dominica. She and Eric talk about characteristics that support systems of mutual aid, turning necessary skills into novelties, ethics of service and the impacts of inequality, and planning and organizing systems of mutual aid, among other things.

Outline

• 00:00 - 02:52 — Episode introduction
• 02:52 - 05:32 — Defining mutual aid
• 05:32 - 09:52 — Characteristics that support systems of mutual aid
• 09:52 - 12:34 — Turning necessary skills into novelties in the industrial world
• 12:34 - 18:43 — Ethics of service and the impacts of inequality
• 18:43 - 26:14 — Systems of mutual aid emerge in disasters
• 26:14 - 37:35 — Planning and organizing systems of mutual aid
• 37:35 - 42:41 — Episode wrap-up

Links and Resources

• Love in Action Video Series
• Caapi Cottage Retreats
• Quillwood Academy
• Undaunted Study Group
• What Is This Global Crisis Asking Of Us (free webinars)
• Margaret Wheately (author)
• WhatsApp
• Front Porch Forum

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