MUTUAL AID DISASTER RELIEF INC
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Mission Statement
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a people-powered disaster relief network based on the principles of solidarity, mutual aid, and autonomous direct action.
About This Cause
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a grassroots network whose mission is to provide disaster relief based on the principles of solidarity, mutual aid, and autonomous direct action. By working with, listening to, and supporting impacted communities, especially their most vulnerable members, to lead their own recovery, we build longterm, sustainable and resilient communities. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief envisions strong, vibrant, resilient, connected, and empowered individuals and communities as part of an awakened civil society that will restore hope following crisis, and turn the tide against disaster capitalism and climate chaos, in favor of a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief is a decentralized network and organization that people can plug into, facilitating the ability of people to give and receive aid based on a grassroots, mutual aid and solidarity model. Hierarchical relationships, based on class and race, forced into light by a disaster, are only reinforced by charitable institutions unless these institutions directly address privilege and power in their response. Self-determination and agency are critical in this process. People impacted by disasters have more of a stake in their own survival and well-being than well-intentioned paternalistic givers of charity, and will firmly grasp the tools to participate in a communal recovery given the chance. Survivors of disasters look for accomplices who can assist them in achieving this communal recovery without imposing a stigma of receiving assistance without input. This is what we are here to facilitate. Mutual Aid Disaster Relief responds in a flexible, responsive and effective manner by not assuming everybody’s needs are the same or that we know best what a community needs, but instead acts humbly, asking, listening, and responding. To us, disaster survivors have a right to be part of a communal recovery. We recognize survivors’ rights to determine what their needs are and how best others could assist them and we utilize the knowledge, skills and networks gained from our background in social movement organizing to respond from below, with direct action and no bureaucracy or red tape. This mutual aid, solidarity-based, grassroots approach to disaster relief, in addition to meeting the self-determined needs of disaster survivors more effectively, has the added benefit of building bridges, serving to unite disparate elements of social justice and liberation movements and build power from below. Whether future disasters become focal points for the powerful to further entrench policies that uphold their privilege and political, social, and economic disparities or whether they become opportunities to build more empowered and resilient individuals and communities and strengthen our movements for radical social change is up to us and the choices we make.