Mutual Aid
by Dean Spade, Pamela Cappas-Toro · first published 2020
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Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to—or actively engineer—each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support vulnerable members of their communities. This survival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid. This book is abou
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On that note, I'll just mention I think that I read a short book called "Mutual Aid" by Dean Spade that really gave me some more ideas for what a world looks like where communities are really taking care of each other and don't have so much emphasis on doing everything yourself. https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20892439W/Mutual_Aid
on “Willingham Sends Fables into the Public Domain” ↗…venture, there might be a risk of making decisions based on money rather than public good. OpenAI might be an example? I'd far rather humans help other humans directly[0] than farm it out to robots. [0] Mutual Aid, book by Dean Spade
on “Ask HN: How do you make a living contributing to and/or creating OSS projects?” ↗Having read Mutual Aid by Dean Spade I understand better what you're saying, namely that solidarity amongst people outside the dominant paradigm of capitalism (owning land, renting, working for scraps while the Capitalist's…
on “Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Resources? [May 2025]” ↗