This Is America #202: Report from North Carolina on Mutual Aid Efforts, Interview with ‘The Dugout’
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Welcome, to This Is America, September 27th, 2024. On this episode, we feature an interview with an organizer with Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR) and two collective members at Firestorm Books, both located in Western North Carolina, who speak about organizing autonomous mutual aid relief efforts in the wake of recent hurricanes. We then speak...

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How do you organize mutual aid in a city without power, water, and internet?

Don’t miss our latest episode of This Is America, featuring an interview with someone from Rural Organizing and Resiliance (ROAR) and volunteers @firestorm in #Asheville.

We discuss how hundreds of people across the city came together following #HurricaneHelene in mass meetings and helped to organize autonomous disaster relief and mutual aid. ROAR speaks about the challenges of mobilizing in rural areas.

We also speak with the two hosts of ‘The Dugout’ a Black anarchist podcast, roundup resistance news, and talk about how Trump is already moving to contest the next election.

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPM
      81·
      7 days ago

      The point is not if mutual exists, but how to practice it. You also forget that the alienation we all experience from capitalism has left most people without the necessary knowledge to do direct action for mutual aid. Did you visit the article?

        • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.netEnglish
          8·
          6 days ago

          What I mean is that there’s no way to organize mutual aid in a crisis situation if there’s no previous mutual aid organization before because mutual aid won’t emerge from nothing. Mutual aid takes years or even decades to be organized.

          I think many desaster responses actually show the opposite. Mutual aid can emerge spontaneously, structures get build within hours and people show that despite it all, they can help each other out.

          Having knowledge, pre existing organizations and a more social day to day life can of course have a hugr positive impact