Mutual Aid

Super El Niño Is Here; We Must Organize To Prepare For It

July 11, 2026 Kaylie Couch, People's World. Organize! climate crisis, El Nino, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid

As of June 2026, the National Oceanographic Association of America has warned that a “super El Niño” is forming in the Pacific. With wildfires and a statewide drought emergency threatening the most vulnerable in our communities, we are warned that a drier, warmer winter is on the way. The higher temperatures at the surface of the ocean are reaching anomalous levels, and it’s going to have a variety of negative impacts on our society. This “super El Niño” is not the first, and it certainly won’t be the last. With rising global temperatures, we will be seeing a lot more warm water circulating in the oceans, leading to greater cycles of El Niño and La Niña.

Building Systems Of Mutual Aid After Prison

June 25, 2026 Chris Hedges Report Documentaries, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Chris Hedges, Documentary, Mass Incarceration, Mutual Aid, Prison

America’s prison system does not end at the prison gate. For millions of formerly incarcerated people, release marks the beginning of another sentence—one enforced not by prison guards, but by laws, discrimination, economic exclusion, and a political system that too often values punishment over rehabilitation. While politicians routinely invoke the language of “second chances,” returning citizens face barriers to housing, employment, education, voting, and even basic dignity that make successful reentry deliberately difficult.

Japan’s Volunteer Labour Bank

June 23, 2026 Mari Nishitani, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Community, History, Japan, Mutual Aid, Volunteers, Worker Rights and Jobs

Teruko Mizushima is a founder of the Volunteer Labour Bank in Japan. If you are a time-bank enthusiast, you’ve probably heard her referred to as the creator of the world’s first-ever time bank. Have you ever wondered: how the “first-ever time bank” functioned? How big a thing was the time bank in Japan? Does Japan have a time bank as part of society now? This short article delves deeper into the story of the “world's first time bank.” Don’t worry! Her story will not disappoint you, and you will be even more fascinated with time banks by the time you finish reading.

The Quiet Resistance Of Working-Class Women In Egypt

May 24, 2026 Farah Awadalla, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Egypt, Mutual Aid, Women Activism, Working Class

When public dissent is risky or impossible, resistance does not disappear. It often becomes quieter, more practical and harder to recognize. For many working-class women in Egypt, it takes shape not in slogans or demonstrations, but in the daily tactics they use to protect income, reduce dependence, share care work and move more safely through public space. Samah, a worker in Cairo, offers one example. (The women featured in this article are identified by their first names only, with surnames omitted to protect their privacy.) On her way to work, she buys vegetables for dinner and carries them with her in a plastic bag.

A Discussion On The New Novel ‘Palaces Of The Crow’

May 21, 2026 The Chris Hedges Report. Resistance Report Book Review, Chris Hedges, Mutual Aid, Wars and Militarism, World War II

“We tell the stories that perpetuate the narrative or the myth we want, and we erase the others,” Chris Hedges states in this interview with Ray Nayler about his new book, “Palaces of the Crow,” which centers around four teenagers from varying backgrounds who struggle to survive during World War II. The war, Nayler says, fundamentally reshaped the world geopolitically, technologically and socially in ways that have profoundly impacted the environment in which we live today. Critical lessons from that moment in time are being lost, with media and governments covering up the deep and long-lasting wounds inflicted upon tens of millions of people.

Three Pillars Of Civil Resistance: Lessons From The Twin Cities

May 17, 2026 Paul Bauknight and Bill Droessler, Next City. Organize! Community Defense, ICE, Minneapolis, Mutual Aid

On a cold morning in Minneapolis last winter, one of us stood outside a local school to ensure that all children and families could move safely to and from school without fear. Bill was there not as an official or community organizer, but as a concerned neighbor alongside other parents, volunteers, and community members. ICE’s brutalization of our people in the Twin Cities drew plenty of attention in the media and elsewhere. But what mattered most that cold day, and so many other days this winter, was not quite as public. It was what happened somewhat invisibly

The True Origins Of Mutual Aid And Danger Of Getting It Wrong

April 24, 2026 Zede, Substack. Strategize! Africa, Cooperatives, Indigenous culture, Mutual Aid

There is a conversation happening on social media, in organizing circles, in group chats and comment sections about what mutual aid is, what it can do, and whether it is failing. But it is, in my view, asking the wrong question. The question is not whether mutual aid works. It does. It has, for centuries. The better question is whether mutual aid, as most people currently practice it, can reliably function as a long-term welfare system for entire communities. My answer is no— not by itself. Not without structure. This essay is my attempt to lay out what I mean by that. I want to trace where mutual aid actually comes from.

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.

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