Mutual aid food networks are sprouting up everywhere right now because people are hungry and systems are failing. But they’re also sprouting up because people—especially mothers—are realizing ...

In recent months, thousands of Minnesotans have given millions of dollars to their neighbors who were afraid to leave their homes because of draconian federal immigration enforcement that also swept ...

The city of Sulphur, in southwest Louisiana, was hit by two hurricanes — Laura and Delta — within a matter of months in 2020. Fast forward to today, and residents, like Cynthia Robertson, still see ...

The Smokehouse Collective invests in “our resilience as Native peoples to persevere in our cultures despite the global impacts we are facing.” The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the ...

The massive Los Angeles wildfires in January and their aftermath compelled scores of grassroots, community-led organizations, small businesses, and individuals to jump into relief efforts to give aid ...

Residents of the South Meadows neighborhood in Burlington gather free produce from the People’s Farmstand on June 30. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger Toward the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, one ...

As newsrooms navigate financial pressures and shifts in ownership, many journalists have turned to mutual aid to support one another. Mutual aid is the practice in which people come together to assist ...

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CHICAGO — On the Fourth of July, a group of punks and appreciators gather around the canal on the South Side for a mutual aid benefit show. They’re raising funds for Comedor Comunitario (“Community ...

You’ve seen the headlines. SNAP benefits slashed. Food prices still climbing. Families who were barely making it now can’t make it at all. And maybe you’ve felt it yourself—the squeeze, the anxiety, ...

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with dire effects. In September 2022, remnants of Typhoon Merbok ...