Good Things

Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism: As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.

• “When anyone can be summoned by the state to extract information, she continued, “people lose their social instincts, the ties between them weaken, everybody retires to his corner and keeps his mouth shut—which is a great boon to the authorities..If we are to have any hope of surviving the coming dark age, we need mutual aid—not just to keep people housed and fed, but to keep them connected.
• What will family mutual aid look like? Communal, intergenerational housing, shared kitchens, child care shifts, leaving free time for creativity and leisure: let new forms of intimacy and interdependence supplant the patriarchal nuclear family religious fundamentalists and their elected officials have been laboring to reinvigorate for decades.
• There is no substitute for the state, whose obligation is to redistribute the nation’s wealth for the greater good of the greatest number of people. But when the state is a malevolent kleptocracy, mutual aid—neighbors helping neighbors—starts to look like radical civil disobedience, less a thousand points of light than a brilliant beam shining toward a different world.”

• Level up your political education through books, audiobooks, library resources. So. Many. Books out there. (And not just the ones that are banned!)
• If you haven’t seen this list yet — highly recommend! – Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting
• Good Trouble Checklist– Relationships are the core unit to change making. “People are doing things. You will meet those people when you start doing things.” – Sherrilyn Ifill