Mutual Aid Disaster Relief: Pulling Each Other Through Coronavirus Pandemic

LEVELLER @LEVELLERcomms…. We can’t self-quarantine if we have to show up for work to pay our rent. We can’t get testing and treatment if we can’t pay the price. We can’t distance ourselves if we’re trapped in cages. We can’t stay home if we have no homes. #COVIDー19 #5DemandsNot1Less

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.

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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

Filed under: Anarchist Movement, Announcement, Community Organizing, Disaster, Featured, Health Care—It’s Going Down

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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: La Ingobernable, we are still in the heart of Madrid. English..Spanish

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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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