Interseeds: Co-creating sustainable communities

Co-created November, 2020 in so-called Fort Collins, Colorado original home of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Apache, Comanche, Shoshone, and Ute People

Connecting and sprouting mutually supportive communities while interrupting limited and oppressive belief systems

contents Intro Why this zine?

Resource Sharing Understanding Without Housing, Without Rights We Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity

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Why this zine?

This is a new collaborative effort among Colorado mutual aid workers to build bridges of communication and understanding between communities.

Please contact @LittleWildWings on FB for more info or to get involved.

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Dearest Allies, Please forward this to people you know need education on Natives. This is predominantly for NON NATIVE people to come and get the basics. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds; there are non-profit, bulk ticket and needbased registration options.

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https://www.crushingcolonialism.org/calendar/ #somethingelse #somethingelseandproud #MMIW #MMIWG2S #MMIWG #environmentaljustice #disabilityawareness #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

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720.413.0124 Email: vinnie@dashrco.org Twitter: @dashrorg Instagram: @dashrorg

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Every 10 seconds, a child dies of a hunger-related disease.

896 million people live on $1.90 a day or less.

795 million people—or 1 in 9 people in the world—do not have enough to eat.

Worldwide

Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week is a project of the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness and the National Coalition for the Homeless.

800 Grant Street, Suite 110, Denver, CO

HHWeek.org

Denver Alliance for Street Health Response Transforming public safety by supporting and creating alternatives to policing and jail

More than 1 in 5 children lives in poverty.

Event page: https://fb.me/e/3cURxqDUI

Each year, 3.5 million people end up sleeping in parks, under bridges, in shelters, or in cars.

Join the Facebook group for more CHAT updates and discussion about food insecurity and hunger: www.facebook.com/groups/307999037084328

More than 49 million Americans are at risk of suffering from hunger.

We are launching this project during Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week on 11/16 with a survival gear drive and a meal for unhoused folks provided by The Persian Palate. Contribute funds to this event through Venmo @Hena-Khavafipour.

In the U.S.

Join DASHR as we collaborate with the Colorado Blueprint to End Hunger to launch CHAT: Community Healing, Action, and Truth. CHAT is a statewide effort to highlight narratives that connect systemic violence with food insecurity and to frame ending hunger as a component of transforming safety.

Every person deserves to live without worrying whether they’ll have food on their plate or a roof over their head. But instead, far too many people are forced to make hard choices between paying for food, housing, and other critical expenses.

On 11/16 during Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week we’re launching CHAT by collecting survival gear and providing a warm meal for unhoused folks at the Capitol. Stay tuned at Denver Alliance for Street Health Response for more updates and events throughout the week.

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DM the fb page to get involved! http://Foodnotbombs.net/ 970.286.5566 foodnotbombsfortcollins3@gmail.com

Food Not Bombs Fort Collins

Self Health Colorado We are coordinating health & hygiene resources for our unhoused neighbors.

If you want to help or you need help, please email us at self.health.co@protonmail.com @nococmad on Twitter & FB nococmad@protonmail.com

Northern Colorado Community Mutual Aid and Defense (CMAD) is a group of leftists committed to providing community defense, firearms handling and safety education, and mutual aid to the communities of Northern Colorado and its surrounding areas.

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Call for Art & Stories Our voices matter. We will be heard. Our work is of value.

And we’re starting an unhoused artist’s co-op.

If you want to help co-create, or if you want to share and publish your work, please see @littlewildwings on FB for updated communications.

Thank you

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Untitled painting by Barry Davidson

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Mutual aid is a key part of building a world in which we keep each other safe, a world in which we build collectively to meet each other’s needs. Join us on November 12 to celebrate the publication of Mutual Aid and for a conversation exploring its role in abolition, transformative justice, and addressing harm.

In this video, Spade was joined by anti-violence organizers Mariame Kaba and Ejeris Dixon to discuss mutual aid as an abolitionist project. Why is mutual aid key to practicing abolition? How does mutual aid relate to transformative justice and other anti-violence frameworks and practices? How can mutual aid help us to reimagine responding to harm and violence without relying on police?

Rather than numb out in the face of these overwhelming problems, Spade urges us to take up mutual aid work and to take part in the collective work of building the world we want.

Dean Spade’s new book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) offers both a theoretical understanding of mutual aid and practical tools for sustaining this crucial movement work.

Spade defines mutual aid as “collective coordination to meet each other’s needs, usually from an awareness that the systems we have in place are not going to meet them. Those systems, in fact, have often created the crisis.” Spade explores how mutual aid projects have been part of every powerful social movement, citing examples such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott in the 1950s, the Black Panther Party’s survival programs that provided free breakfasts and medical clinics in the 1960s and 70s, and the resource and skill-sharing that emerged in the Occupy encampments starting in 2011. In the contemporary moment of the widening wealth gap, a global pandemic, increasing storms, fires, and other crises resulting from climate change, as well as myriad other social inequities, Spade demonstrates how and why mutual aid is essential for meeting people’s needs and building big, transformative movements that get to the root causes of these crises.

Dean Spade in conversation with Mariame Kaba and Ejeris Dixon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C32KGX6qP5s

“In my experience, it is more engagement that actually enlivens us—more curiosity, more willingness to see the harm that surrounds us, and ask how we can relate to it differently. Being more engaged with the complex and painful realities we face, and with thoughtful, committed action alongside others for justice, feels much better than numbing out or making token, self-consoling charity gestures. It feels good to let our values guide every part of our lives.” —Dean Spade

What is mutual aid and why do we need it?

We Keep Each Other Safe: Mutual Aid for Survival and Solidarity