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Dean Spade

  • Sophia Guentherhas quotedlast year
    As a result of these efforts by a mobilized and coordinated movement, and no thanks to the government, Hong Kong had an immensely successful response to the first wave of COVID-19
  • Sophia Guentherhas quotedlast year
    Mutual aid is collective coordination to meet each other’s needs, usually from an awareness that the systems we have in place are not going to meet them.
  • Sophia Guentherhas quotedlast year
    They directly meet people’s survival needs, and are based on a shared understanding that the conditions in which we are made to live are unjust
  • Sophia Guentherhas quotedlast year
    Three. Mutual aid projects are participatory, solving problems through collective action rather than waiting for saviors
  • Sophia Guentherhas quotedlast year
    Mutual aid is inherently antiauthoritarian
  • Sophia Guentherhas quotedlast year
    Mutual aid can also generate boldness and a willingness to defy illegitimate authority
  • Sophia Guentherhas quotedlast year
    Charity, aid, relief, and social services are terms that usually refer to rich people or the government making decisions about the provision of some kind of support to poor people—that is, rich people or the government deciding who gets the help, what the limits are to that help
  • Sophia Guentherhas quotedlast year
    the idea that activism is a kind of lifestyle accessory—is demobilizing to our movements
  • Sophia Guentherhas quotedlast year
    COVID-19, for example, has generated right-wing wins like closing the border
  • Sophia Guentherhas quotedlast year
    Elites and their nonprofit gatekeepers encourage us to make small, “reasonable,” or “winnable” demands, and they try to redirect our action to official channels that are non-disruptive, with narratives about “peaceful protest” and “coming to the table.”
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