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<div>Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic many constellations of
mutual aid cropped up all over the world in response to the appalling
results of decades of global austerity that made themselves apparent
beyond the typical sites of neoliberal neglect. In New York City,
where I live, one need only look at the list of groups collected on
Mutual Aid NYC's website to see the extent of the networks. Most
began as food distribution or shifted their prior infrastructures to
give out material necessities. During the George Floyd Rebellions,
many transitioned to handing out personal protective equipment and
other supplies at protests and demos, formed jail support networks,
and raised money by selling art to bail out protestors and pay legal
fees for those threatened with incarceration. Some formed (guerrilla)
gardens or came together to help rent strikers sustain themselves. All
the above actions are part of that very same "human solidarity"
Kropotkin speaks of in the epigraph, that which may in fact help
people "emerge intact from the present ordeal."</div>
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>https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/workplace/430303/the-art-of-mutu<span
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