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US & Canada database of localized mutual aid efforts
Collective Care Tips & Mutual Aid Efforts from NYCTJ
Includes: list of national mutual aid networks & database of localized resources
“What is Mutual Aid?” video
Coronavirus resource kit
Guide to podmapping for mutual aid and making a neighborhood pod
Philly/PA-Specific COVID-19 Mutual Aid Resources
NYC United Against Coronavirus
Axis Lab Resource Page on Mutual Aid and Healing Justice
Delaware Basic Needs Resource List
Chicago COVID-19 Hardship & Help
Chicago COVID-19 Mutual Aid Sign-Up
It’s Going Down - Mutual Aid Initiatives & Resource Lists
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective - Pods & Pod-Mapping Worksheet
Higher Ed In Prison - COVID-19 Action Resources
Philadelphia Tenants Union’s COVID-19 Organizing Guide
COVID-19 Mutual Aid on Instagram
PCCY - Toolkit To Help Kids During The Coronavirus Shutdown
Collective Care Is Our Best Weapon Against COVID-19
Wayne County Defenders COVID-19 Prisoner Release Coordination
Illinois DOC Corona Virus Response - Friends and Family Survey
IWOC COVID19 Hotlines
California: 510-301-9403
National: 410-449-7140
Audio: “Missing Daddy” by Mariame Kaba, read by Bilphena Yawon
Published with permission from the author
Buy the book from AK Press
Survived and Punished and the Inside-Outside Soap Brigade
Black Trans Futures Mutual Aid Request
Callidarity - Funds for Phones and Commissary for Incarcerated Mothers
Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund
New York Rent & Mortgage Suspension and Housing Justice
Petition to Decrease Delaware Prison Population
To Congress: Cancel all Student Debt
Tennessee Rent, Mortgage & Utility Suspension
Pennsylvania Rent Freeze and Moratorium on Evictions
Tell Amazon: Give All Workers 100% Paid Leave Now
Democracy Now - “Solidarity Not Charity”
Article on Disability Justice Culture Club in East Oakland
Indigenous Action - Rethinking the Apocalypse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto
Truthout - If Social Distancing is Impossible in Prisons, People Should Be Freed
L.A. Times - Unhoused People Seizing Vacant Homes in L.A.
California Will Use Hotels to Shelter Homeless People
Self-Care Tips if you become sick with COVID-19
The Coronavirus is Putting The Failings of Ableism and Individualism on Full Display
Release People from Jail to Prevent a Coronavirus Catastrophe Behind Bars
Open Letter to Cook County: Protect Public Health Through Decarceration
NBC News: Coronavirus fears show how “model minority” Asian Americans become the “yellow peril”
San Francisco Officials Push to Reduce Jail Population to Prevent Corona Virus Outbreak