Practicing Mutual Aid as Abolition in Action: A Student's Guide to Organizing

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IMPORTANT VALUES WITHIN MUTUAL AID 1. We don't need the state to survive. We keep each other safe.

For thousands of years, Black and Indigenous communities have worked together to meet each other's needs outside of global capitalism and the neoliberal state. Today, many people cling to the state as our only hope, ignoring how we can survive and thrive in collectivities.

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