Dean Spade

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

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.

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