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Last updated: April 9, 2020

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Mutual Aid Efforts & Resources

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

Mutual Aid NYC

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

Mutual Aid 101

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

COVID-19 Decarcerate Syllabus

Collective Care Is Our Best Weapon Against COVID-19

Prisoner Solidarity & COVID-19

Beyond Prisons Resource Guide

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

Resources for Children with Incarcerated Parents

Audio: “Missing Daddy” by Mariame Kaba, read by Bilphena Yawon
Published with permission from the author

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Resource Redistribution

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

Petitions

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

Coverage of Organizing Efforts & Reflections on Crisis Response

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

Open Letter to ICE from Medical Professionals Urging Release of Individuals Held in Detention Centers

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