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Migrants Are Parents and Children

New York parents are using mutual aid networks to welcome migrant families

October 31, 2024 • by Mónica Salmón Gómez

Although New York can be a violent, unequal, and segregated city, radical acts of solidarity through mutual aid groups shape the experiences of those who live there and strive to transform it into a more livable place—especially for new arrivals. In the winter of 2023, just as the migrant shelter ...

A World Beyond Capitalism

As workers contemplate the post-pandemic world, they know one thing: they need the big changes that mutual aid organizing has already imagined

October 27, 2021 • by Molly Ragan

It has been such a long time since American workers have pressured employers in such large numbers that some are calling this month “Striketober.” More than 10,000 John Deere United Automobile Workers (UAW) are on strike across the country after rejecting a tentative agreement that failed to adequately increase wages, ...

Resilience in a Time of Plague: A Personal Account

During a crisis, the people who cope best are those who help others

April 21, 2021 • by Roxana Toma

_____ You probably heard this slogan throughout the pandemic – “We’re all in this together.” But is that really true? After all, the affluent and the young had a radically different experience of the pandemic than the poor and elderly. And how do we help ourselves when we are experiencing an ...

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Migrants Are Parents and Children

New York parents are using mutual aid networks to welcome migrant families

A World Beyond Capitalism

As workers contemplate the post-pandemic world, they know one thing: they need the big changes that mutual aid organizing has already imagined

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