Mutual Aid: Solidarity & Liberation

🗓 Monday, June 9, 2025

🛑 Limited Capacity, Register here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/mutual-aid-solidarity-and-liberation/

💜 Come ready to listen, and also share your own experiences and engage in small group discussions!

⏰ 6 pm. Starts with light meal. Food will be boxed & put away by 6:30 pm so people remain masked.

📍1803 East 1st Ave. xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh & səlilwətaɬ lands

Mutual aid is an ethic in movements and communities to directly support each other’s needs to survive and thrive based in shared commitments to reciprocity in an unequal world. Dean Spade argues that in the imperial core we live in one of “the most atomized societies in human history, which makes our lives less secure and undermines our ability to organize together.” There are many examples of mutual aid in our communities today trying to undo this capitalist-colonial atomization: legal funds, eviction defense, tragedy & disaster response, food & clothes distribution, health care provision, and more.

Mutual aid draws on a living legacy of sustained cooperation and resistance by Black, Indigenous, racialized, colonized, houseless, criminalized, disabled, and queer and trans communities. Many traditions of mutual aid - whether or not they reference themselves as "mutual aid" - are actively targeted and repressed, such as the colonial Potlatch Ban against Indigenous communities of the North West coastal regions, or the attempts by the FBI to disrupt the Black Panthers’ Breakfast for Children Program, or state injunctions against community-led harm reduction efforts. Mutual aid within these struggles is a radical affirmation of care, dignity, and justice.

This event will include speakers working on different mutual aid projects. This will be followed by collective conversation about mutual aid, and imagining and practicing mutual aid. Come ready to listen, and also share your own experiences and engage in small group discussions!

• • 6-6:30 pm Light meal generously provided by FTP!
  • 6:30 pm Event Intro & Speakers
  • 7:45 pm Small Group Discussions
  • 8:30 pm Wrap

 Hosted by Weaving Our Worlds, a recently formed grassroots anti-authoritarian, internationalist collective. Some additional information:

👥 Bring $. We will collect funds for mutual aid at the door, and funds will be distributed to mutual aid projects.

🧡 ASL-English confirmed

♿ Venue has an accessible entrance at street level, which gives access to hall, washrooms, and kitchen. The washroom door opening is 86 cm, and the stall door is 61 cm.

👶🏾 Child-friendly space, and there is also a playroom in the venue. Childminding confirmed on-site.

😷Masks required to ensure that the day is accessible to immunocompromised comrades and protects all of us from Covid-19 transmission. If you are not someone who typically opts to wear a mask, we thank you for respecting this and helping us to enact a collectivist approach to wellbeing. Presenters and ASL interpreters may remove masks while presenting. Masks will be available on-site.

🌿 Everyone commits to a welcoming and dignified environment for all. This includes not engaging in harassing, abusive, discriminatory, or oppressive speech or actions especially related to marginalised genders, sexualities, race, religion, disability, age, appearance, etc.