Johnson County-based Boots on the Ground Midwest has organized neighborhood groups, facilitated mutual aid and trained thousands of Kansas City-area residents how to legally observe and record federal ...

DULUTH, Minn.– For a little over a week, Positively 3rd street bakery dedicated 100 percent of proceeds to helping out ...

"This project, to me, was just one small way that I could be part of mending things that feel broken right now." ...

I arrived in Minneapolis in July of 2020 to find buildings turned to rubble, people grieving, and a community rebuilding. During my first volunteer shift at Phillips Community Free Store, which was ...

Amid the catastrophe of the pandemic, climate emergency and racist state violence, mutual aid has exploded. Ordinary people around the globe, from Seattle to Nigeria, are finding ways to support each ...

When major disruptions happen in communities, often the first people to respond are the residents themselves and their neighbors. When the pandemic shut down daily life or after a disaster like a ...

Whenever possible, I like to begin one of my columns by quoting what I believe to be an absolute. It has been my experience that this is a pretty good way to stimulate debate, because someone will ...

MUTUAL AID ISN’T a new idea — far from it. “It’s an ancient practice of looking out for one another,” says JM Wong, a member of the Seattle-based COVID-19 Mutual Aid network since its inception in ...

Since arriving on our shores this year, the Covid-19 pandemic has eroded Americans’ confidence in the ability of the government to perform its most basic functions. This loss of faith in the state has ...

This policy codifies existing university practice that has been mandated by state and federal regulations since 1961. The University at Buffalo (UB, university) is committed to maintaining cooperative ...

I belong to a combination fire department that is relatively busy. We are surrounded by similar departments, and with the exception of one we all play well in the “sandbox” together. The issue is that ...