Roundtable discussion on Tuesday, December 1 with scholar-activists Angélica Cházaro, Chandan Reddy and Dean Spade about Spade’s new book, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) (Verso, 2020). According to Spade, “Mutual aid is a term used to describe collective coordination to meet each other’s needs stemming 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, or are making things worse.” Mutual aid projects have proliferated during COVID-19, and have been core infrastructure in the current uprising against racist policing and vital on the front lines of fires, floods and storms caused by climate change. As we face unprecedented times, this discussion offers insights rooted in friendship and solidarity to help us build collective power and the relationships we need as we look to 2021.

The first 10 minutes of video only show the ASL interpretation, but the video shows all panelist participants after that. Apologies for the technical difficulties!