Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic

Community mobilizations for mutual aid and medical solidarity have formed in as many spaces as the new coronavirus (Covid-19) has spread.   

From continent to continent, people have innovated and navigated through information suppression, governmental inadequacy and unpreparedness as

well as supply shortages in panic-economies with global financial markets plummeting.  

The global pandemic is a disaster enveloping all of the intersections where climate catastrophes typically surge, storm-batter and strand impacted regions, but when every community is a different version of ground zero, sourcing from within, in as much as possible, becomes a critical component.  

.@DSA_of_NWA has opened out emergency mutual aid pantry for the #COVID19US pandemic pic.twitter.com/eIypIzsQdh

— Blanca Estevez (@best__ev) March 13, 2020

Piecing together carefully constructed information on defending our communities, building bridges over access and info gaps for folks with differing vulnerabilities and sharing comprehensive information on harm reduction, DIY resource building and responding with best practices is the radical solidarity being generated by folks across the world.  …….

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Autonomous Groups Are Mobilizing Mutual Aid Initiatives to Combat the Coronavirus

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In the span of just a few weeks, the coronavirus has completely changed life as we know it, while also exposing the vast array of contradictions firmly entrenched within capitalist society.

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Madrid. Spanish state. Statement by La Ingobernable, that have released a new building in the heart of Madrid.

Originally published by La Ingobernable. Translated by Squat Net.

For our friends.
For the ones who fight every day. For those who are gone. In this month of feminist revolt, of organized rage, of joy and of struggle, we, the neighbors of Madrid, make public the recovery of the building in Calle Alberto Bosch 4, as a new common and open space in the heart of Madrid.

Now, in this week more than ever, we must remember the role that social centers have had, have and will have for the feminist movement, as a space for convergence, construction and self-organisation.

The attack on social centers is undoubtedly a direct attack on feminism, which we are not prepared to tolerate. In recent years we have witnessed a lamentable spectacle in which a few people share out the city, selling it to the highest bidder or handing it over to friends while others are thrown out of our neighbourhoods.

Recently we learned that the building of La Ingobernable (Paseo del Prado 30) was once again being given, in the style of the PP, to a foundation directed by the former mayor Gallardón to build a museum instead of the so promised endowments for the neighborhood that the current mayor, Martínez-Almeida, was advocating during the electoral campaign.

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Okupació d’un pis de Divarian al barri de Poble-sec

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One of the four feminist squats announced on 8-M in Barcelona has been evicted

As part of the Fem Llars Feministes campaign (‘Let’s make Feminist Homes’), the women of the Right to Housing movement made public four occupations in the Gràcia, Trinitat Vella, Sants and Poble-sec neighborhoods yesterday, eleven flats in total.

photo LA DIRECTA

They denounce that the problem of housing “has a woman’s face” and say that it is they who are fighting in the front line. Following the press conference this morning, the Mossos Police Force have evicted the building on Mauritius Sarrahima Street

It is the second year that the housing right movement, with the complicity of the feminist movement, is occupying real estate on the 8th of March. During the day yesterday, housing squatters were announced in several neighborhoods of Barcelona: an entire block in Gràcia, another in Sants, a flat in Poble-sec and another in Trinitat Vella.

In total, eleven housing units for women involved in various groups and unions, which today in a press conference wanted to claim publicly that the housing problem has a “woman’s face”, but at the same time they are the ones who are on the front line of the fight.

Just after the press conference ended in front of the busy block in Gràcia, on Maurici Sarrahima Street, the Mossos anti-riot unit arrived to carry out the eviction.

Last night, about a dozen Brimo’s (Riot Police) units had already attempted a night eviction, which housing groups had avoided by placing a barricade of furniture in front of the building and calling for a popular dinner.

Activists say that the block was empty for two years and explained that they were in contact with the property to negotiate. However, the eviction was carried out and two people were identified by the police.

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Turkish police use tear gas to break up Women’s Day march in İstanbul

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Turkish police fired tear gas and plastic bullets to break up a crowd of several thousand women who gathered in central İstanbul on Sunday evening for a march to celebrate International Women’s Day, according to Turkish media reports.

The crowd gathered at the edge of the city’s Taksim Square, planning to hold a march although the İstanbul Governor’s Office had earlier banned demonstrations and marches on İstiklal Street, where police teams set up barricades earlier in the day. It is the second year in a row that the governor’s office has refused permission for organizers to hold the annual rally in the Taksim area.

Hundreds of riot police blocked the women’s path to prevent them from advancing along the district’s main pedestrian avenue for the 18^th “Feminist Night March,” held in İstanbul since 2003 to mark women’s day.

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