Zyahna Bryant: Beyond the Hashtag: How to Take Anti-Racist Action in Your Life
Teen Vogue, May 28, 2020 In this op-ed, Zyahna Bryant — a Charlottesville-based activist, organizer, and social impact strategist — offers insight into how people…
Crimethinc: Minneapolis: Now This Fight Has Two Sides. What the Riots Mean for the COVID-19 Era
May 28, 2020 The demonstrations this week in Minneapolis mark a historic watershed in the COVID-19 era. As we argued in March, there are some…
PReP: Emancipatory mutual aid: from education to liberation
Roar Magazine, May 21, 2020 A New Orleans radical mutual aid group organizes with and within communities to help transform the conditions that created…
The Canary, “As the state fails communities, mutual aid projects are working to meet people’s needs across the UK”
By Tom Anderson, 17th May 2020 Since the beginning of the UK coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, tens of thousands of people have lost their lives. But the…
David Campbell: Stick-up on Rikers Island
Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life, May 1, 2020 It started with the phones. A few minutes before 9:30 on Saturday morning, mid-conversation with…
Alicia Kennedy: Working Class Veganism and the Connections Between All Struggles for Liberation
Speaking with Raechel Ann Jolie about her refreshingly candid new memoir, ‘Rust Belt Femme’ Tenderly, May 1, 2020 Looking back, I am shocked they…
Kim Kelly: The History of the Black Radical Group MOVE and Its Infamous Bombing by Police
And how Philadelphia became “the city that bombed itself.” Teen Vogue, May 14, 2020 In 1985, an armed standoff between Philadelphia police and members…
Jesse Bernstein: Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City
Hard Crackers: Chronicles of Everyday Life, May 13, 2020 One of my last conversations at Ladders Services was with the Medical Examiner’s office after…
The New Yorker, “What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic”
We are not accustomed to destruction looking, at first, like emptiness. The coronavirus pandemic is disorienting in part because it defies our normal cause-and-effect…
Arundhati Roy: Our Task is to Disable the Engine
The coronavirus pandemic has brought the machine of capitalism to a grinding halt. Progressive International, May 11 2020 While the human race is momentarily…