Our communities are facing many crises, from worsening climate disasters to fascism. It’s clearer than ever that we need each other to survive and thrive. Building robust and sustainable mutual aid networks is necessary to care for each other and build power. Of course, mutual aid is not new, and neither are the effects of systemic oppression on communities at home or abroad.
After Donald Trump’s re-election in late 2024, Shareable staff saw the pressing need to build skills and pathways for those newly engaged in the shared struggles to come.
Working with our partners and collaborators, we designed a free and virtual mutual aid learning series for early 2025 that featured past writers, organizing partners, and guests from The Response podcast. It became abundantly clear that this training and peer support network was needed when over 1,500 people attended the first session!
To make the learning series as accessible as possible, we’re excited to debut “Mutual Aid 101: Solidarity, Survival, and Resistance,” an introductory toolkit for mutual aid organizing—from starting a group to sustaining it for the long haul.