"Mutual Aid is a collective coordination to meet each other's needs,

it's based on an ethos of direct action and a shared understanding that the
conditions we are currently living in ain't it. This not the same as charity work

which is a sneaky little invention where elites provide aid for problems that they're
responsible for and we thank them by promising to stay poor forever, anything
for the team. I'm sorry if I'm the first person to break this to you but charities are

never going to be able to fix the underlying issues of the causes they promote and
I'm not going to say that that's entirely their fault but it's not
something that they can really help, it's baked into their model. It's because the
charity model perpetuates a dynamic of dependency where poor people rely on
external aid from upper class people who then don't address the root of the
challenges the poor people are facing. You know it's kind of funny how rich
people solutions to global poverty always seem to involve managing the poor
and never redistributing the wealth, shocker. In contrast
Mutual Aid emphasizes empowering communities to support each other
directly fostering self-reliance and autonomy, this can create a domino effect''.

COLORMIND