Like Frampton, Mutual Aid Comes Alive!
In an exercise of either efficiency or laziness, this week’s episode is a live talk we were graciously asked to do at the Framingham Public Library (great Instagram presence). Many are saying it was the Best Talk Ever Given. More and more people are saying it’s the greatest Mutual Aid 102 to a Mutual Aid 101 ever Given by Leftist Agitators.
This podcast began talking about mutual aid, it was literally the first thing we did… To have taken the next rejoinder out on the road, in front of real people who came out when it was SOO COLD, was really cool.
Anyway, we talk about Kropotkin and spend some much-needed time talking about how mutual aid and cooperative structures are in fact and evidence the natural order of things, revisit what mutual aid is and how it’s different from charity and actually, expose the difficult truths that Bill and I are indeed very well-paid Soros agitators. We both bake a mean lasagna.
A few relevant links from the talk…
LUCE Immigrant Justice Network
Bill’s 2020 WoMag story on Chris’s COVID kits
Interview with The Nation about Mutual Aid – Dean Spade
Armed community defense episode of “It Could Happen Here.”
Mutual Aid: A Grassroots Model for Justice and Equity in Emergency Management
Various schools of Anarchism explained with tacos.
Not relevant to the talk but…
Thoughts and prayers up for DJ Michael “5000” Watts, founder of Swishahouse and godfather of “chopped and screwed” music.
Guys, gals, and non-binary pals: We’ve just clocked something like just past the first anniversary of Outdoor Cats. I have so much fun doing this podcast, there’s not much I like more than combining a guaranteed hang with one of the people I enjoy hanging out with most but also I get to do some mild research. I look forward to it every week, sincerely.
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∿Outro: “Walking In The Snow” Run The Jewels
∿Intro by Bill Shaner 1.31.26
