Strengthening Civil Society Through Mutual Aid – A talk with Fine (Educat) and Dean Spade

Strengthening Civil Society Through Mutual Aid – A talk with Fine (Educat) and Dean Spade.The audio is almost 37 minutes. The spoken language is English. Fine and Dean talk about community care and mutual aid as the answer to crisis and capitalist driven society.In the context of worsening ecological crisis, rising fascism, and expanding war, we need to build communities and movements that can take care of each other and fight back. Mutual aid is the work we do in communities to meet immediate survival needs autonomous from government and NGO’s. It is where we practice skills of collaboration, generosity, and co-stewardship, engage in political education to expand our solidarities, and move from being passive observers of political crises to active participants in preparing for and addressing the disasters being caused by capitalism.This podcast is part of an Erasmus+ funded project called "Skills for Crisis". More resources about the workshops developed and delivered as part of the project can be found here: https://skills4crisis.org/workshop/strengthening-civil-society/** Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or OeAD-GmbH. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.