Mutual Aid

What Do Authoritarians Fear Most?

April 13, 2026 Sarah van Gelder, Truthout. Strategize! Mutual Aid, popular power, Ruling Class, Solidarity

Even before Donald Trump launched a war on Iran, his presidency had heightened the strain on millions of people in the United States struggling with high prices and precarious work. Now, as the U.S. and Israel escalate their violence in the Middle East, pressures at home are intensifying. Higher prices at the gas pump make the war-related surge in energy costs visible to all. Less apparent are disruptions to global fertilizer supplies resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Combined with widespread drought and the impacts of tariffs, the fertilizer shortage could cut food supplies, worsening the affordability crisis and spreading food insecurity.

Mutual Aid Is A Lifeline For Millions Displaced By War In Lebanon

April 5, 2026 Mehk Chakraborty, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! forced displacement, Lebanon, Mutual Aid, Wars and Militarism

Before daybreak on March 2, in response to the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran and assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel from Lebanon. Israel retaliated with air strikes on Beirut and its suburbs, renewing the decades-old conflict between the two countries. Thousands fled their homes. Over the course of March, Hezbollah attacks continued and Israel escalated to a large-scale military operation across Lebanon, including a ground invasion. There were more strikes on residential neighborhoods and “evacuation notices” spanning large parts of south Lebanon.

We Asked Tax Experts Everything About Mutual Aid

March 28, 2026 Em Cassel, Racket. Educate! Fundraising, Mutual Aid, Nonprofits, Taxes

For years, Bean, a former resident of the Twin Cities currently living in Central Minnesota, has helped her neighbors raise money for rent and other needs. So earlier this year, when she became aware of Stand with Minnesota’s Adopt a Rent program, she knew she wanted to help. “That turned into, very literally, a full-time gig,” Bean says. Because she lives on disability and isn’t based in the Twin Cities, where most of the ICE chaos was centralized, she had the time to throw herself into fundraising rent for Minnesota families. “By the last week of February, I was like, ‘Alright, this is what I do now,’” she says.

The New Antifascist Consensus

March 23, 2026 Shane Burley, In These Times. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Mutual Aid

Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg, like hundreds of other residents and organizers in the Twin Cities, now keeps a strict schedule — at least every other day — of long volunteer patrols for vehicles driven by federal immigration agents occupying the region. In about two and a half months, thousands of agents unleashed wanton violence across the country as they abduct an average of more than 60 residents per day; shooting, killing and firing chemical weapons at nonviolent protesters, and extrajudicially arrest preschoolers and send them across the country.

Take Back Power Supporters Redistribute Food From Supermarkets

March 15, 2026 The Canary. Resist! Food Banks, Food Security, Mutual Aid, United Kingdom (UK)

Take Back Power supporters have been redistributing food from supermarkets to local foodbanks across the country this morning. Take Back Power is a nonviolent civil-resistance group, demanding that the UK government establish a ‘House of the People’. This is a permanent citizen-led assembly with the power to tax extreme wealth. From around 8.30am on 14 March, teams across four UK cities – Manchester, London, Exeter and Truro – entered supermarkets. They began putting food and necessities into boxes emblazoned with: These things are going to those who need them.

Teaching Climate Preparedness, Block By Block

March 15, 2026 Pryce Jamison, Next City. Create! Disaster Preparedness, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid, Philadelphia

Dominique London knows most of her neighbors in Germantown are unequipped and unprepared for any emergencies or disasters that may strike. “America in general is a very exceptionalist society where we think things happen around us, but not to us,” says London, who has been an educator on emergency preparedness and climate resilience in her community for the past six years and previously helped coordinate the City of Philadelphia’s public health response during the Covid-19 pandemic. “It’s important to recognize that you are the help that is coming,” she says.

A Successful General Strike Requires Trauma-Informed Mutual Aid

March 5, 2026 Sahaja Serpent, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! General Strike, Mutual Aid, Trauma, Trust

The dream of a national general strike to paralyze multiple major industries or corporations is gaining traction. Across the nation, voices are rising with a righteous call for collective action at scale, especially in the wake of ongoing local economic strikes and protests against the ICE occupation of Minneapolis. The Day of Truth and Freedom on Jan. 23 gave a glimpse of the power of everyday people to make the system tremble. Over 50,000 people poured into downtown Minneapolis in the middle of the workday, braving temperatures of 20 below zero.

How To Build Emergency Response Systems For The Long Haul

February 25, 2026 Zia Kandler and Moira Birss, Waging Nonviolence. Organize! Community Defense, Governance, Mutual Aid, State Violence

Targeted state violence and rising fascism are being met with creative organizing by people in Minneapolis and across the country, from mass marches to neighborhood mutual aid to ICE watch foot patrols. These are all beautiful manifestations of resistance that have kept many people safe and demonstrated widespread repudiation of the Trump administration’s policies. Yet as state-sanctioned violence becomes more coordinated, normalized and national in scope, we must continue adapting our response systems to shifting needs.

The Empire Crumbles Part II: Creative Dissidence And Mutual Aid

February 17, 2026 Richard Heinberg, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, ICE, Minneapolis, Mutual Aid, Polycrisis

Part I of this article argued that the world is now crossing a threshold from decades of growth and increasing integration to decades of economic shrinkage and political breakdown. This shift will create stresses that extend in scale from ecosystems and international relations down to households and individuals. Everyone will be personally—and likely profoundly—impacted by the polycrisis. There are three components to this tectonic shift: environmental, economic, and political. It’s useful to think of this in terms of disasters, e.g. natural disasters, economic calamities, and government repression or civil war.

Anti-ICE Organizing Is Creating Counter-Institutions Based On Care

February 6, 2026 Rashida James-Saadiya, Truthout. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Mutual Aid, Trump Administration

The U.S.’s political landscape — and our daily lives — are increasingly shaped by repression and violence, amplified by a media cycle designed to keep us fearful in the present, uncertain about the future, and depleted. Exhaustion is not a side effect of this system. It is one of its core tools. Last year, I wrote that Donald Trump’s attacks were designed to exhaust us. Over the past year, I’ve watched communities build movements and adapt their organizing under this reality. The Trump administration and the institutions aligned with it — including Project 2025’s policy influence — pushed that strategy to its limits.

Somali Communities Are Building Collective Power

February 5, 2026 Jamila Osman, Truthout. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minnesota, Mutual Aid, Somalians

Winter in Minnesota is notoriously harsh, lasting until mid-spring and marked by below-freezing temperatures, heavy snowfall, and intense winds. It is a common misconception that survival requires either hibernation or migration, but blue jays roost communally to conserve warmth through the cold nights, and white-tailed deer congregate in wintering yards, finding safety in numbers. Surviving in hostile climates, whether environmental or political, is impossible in isolation. This is a lesson that Minnesota’s Somali community knows well.

A Shadow Network In Minneapolis Defies ICE And Protects Immigrants

February 2, 2026 Tim Sullivan, Next City. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Minneapolis, Mutual Aid

Minneapolis — If there’s been a soundtrack to life in Minneapolis in recent weeks, it’s the shrieking whistles and honking horns of thousands of people following immigration agents across the city. They are the ever-moving shadow of the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge. They are teachers, scientists and stay-at-home parents. They own small businesses and wait tables. Their network is sprawling, often anonymous and with few overall objectives beyond helping immigrants, warning of approaching agents or filming videos to show the world what is happening.

One Minnesota Union Is Helping Members Survive The Federal Siege

January 23, 2026 Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Organize! ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minneapolis, Mutual Aid, State Violence, Unions

Minneapolis, MN - When Feben Ghilagaber delivers food to fellow union members hiding from the thousands of federal immigration agents swarming Minnesota, the lights to their homes are often off when she gets there. “People are scared for their lives,” she tells me as we drive to UNITE HERE Local 17 office in Minneapolis, a labor union representing more than 6,000 workers in hotels, stadiums and convention centers in the Twin Cities metro area. It also represents many of the workers at the Minneapolis – Saint Paul International Airport and Ghilagaber, an airport food service worker and steward for the union, says the people she delivers food to “are sitting in the dark.”

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