Despite losing important funding from a state food program, the mutual aid nonprofit Caja Solidaria is working to expand its ...

Subscribe to LA Public Press to get stories like this in your inbox every week. A report published June 26 found that mutual ...

When major disruptions happen in communities, often the first people to respond are the residents themselves and their neighbors. When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down daily life or after a disaster ...

Amid the catastrophe of the pandemic, climate emergency and racist state violence, mutual aid has exploded. Ordinary people around the globe, from Seattle to Nigeria, are finding ways to support each ...

“Solidarity, not charity.” At its most basic level, that’s how proponents describe mutual aid. Though historically associated with leftist causes, mutual aid is, at its core, about people helping one ...

When Sarah Norris joined a “community art build,” a protest that invited community members to work on art projects in a public park in December 2021, she had no idea she would soon face felony charges ...

Some of the holiest experiences of my life have been experiences of mutual aid—the kinds of coming together that are now spreading around the world along with the coronavirus. For years, the ...

As lockdowns and layoffs sweep the U.S., mutual aid groups are forming to protect and provide for the vulnerable, including the elderly, incarcerated, undocumented and unhoused. We look at the ...

On a narrow sidewalk in Northwest Washington, a small group of volunteers stacked cardboard and folded plastic sheets, loaded shopping carts and handed out hot coffee as they helped a chronically ...