{"product_id":"mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next-paperback","title":"Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAround the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond to--or actively engineer--each crisis, ordinary people are finding bold and innovative ways to share resources and support the vulnerable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSurvival work, when done alongside social movement demands for transformative change, is called mutual aid. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing, such as how to work in groups, how to foster a collective decision-making process, how to prevent and address conflict, and how to deal with burnout. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriting for those new to activism as well as those who have been in social movements for a long time, Dean Spade draws on years of organizing to offer a radical vision of community mobilization, social transformation, compassionate activism, and solidarity.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, where he teaches courses on policing, imprisonment, gender, race, and social movements. Dean has spent over two decades working in social movements working to end prisons, borders, poverty, and war and support people trying to survive right now. In 2002, Dean founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and\/or people of color, and which operates on a collective governance model. Alongside his book \u003ci\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of the Law, \u003c\/i\u003e Dean's writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicle of Higher Education, Out, In These Times, Social Text, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Signs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 25, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53765741707597,"sku":"9781836742555","price":27.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/8rKDASCRrh9781836742555.webp?v=1776883822","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}