The Future is Mutual Aid
As @bushwickcityfarm said, this election reaffirmed what we already knew - the state will not protect us. The most powerful thing we have is each other - to which we add: taking care of each other and the ecosystems we live in!
Doing this can take multiple forms. Below you will find a list of mutual aid collectives, podcasts, and books we highly recommend - there are, of course, many many more!
At Wonderland, we will continue to share information and to open our space for those who wish to engage in ecosystem restoration. We will continue to host grief retreats and other social events, as well as sharing trees from our nursery whenever possible.
If you would like to use our space for a workshop, project, retreat or any social justice action/event based on abolition and mutual aid, please send an email at wonderlandcommunityproject@gmail.com
In Chicago
Edgewater Mutual Aid Network
Food Not Bombs Rogers Park & Humboldt Park
Rogers Park Seed Library
Rogers Park Freestore
Femme Defensa
La Villita Solidaridad
Anti.Detention Network
Albany Park Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid Dawning
Logan Square Mutual Aid
Chicago Community Jail Support
PO Box Collective
Rising Tide Chicago
BloodFruit Library
Mujeres en Resistencia
The Love Fridge
Patchwork Farms
Chi-Nations Youth
LVEJO
National
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief
So Informed
Slow Factory
Palestine Solidarity
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Sudan Solidarity
Red Ma'at
Sudanese American Physicians
Congo Solidarity
The Future of Congo
Focus Congo
LGBTQ+
Trans Chicago Empowerment Center
Queering the Binary
Trans Santa
Parallel Play
Books
Let this Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition & Emergent Strategies by Andrea J. Ritchie
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Mutual Aid:Building Solidarity Through This Crisis (And the Next) by Dean Spade
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anne Lowenhaupt Tsing
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Podcasts
Live Like the World is Dying https://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness https://www.tangledwilderness.org/strangers-podcast
For the Wild https://forthewild.world/podcast
The Poor Prole’s Almanac https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-poor-proles-almanac/id1523042499
How to Survive the End of the World https://endoftheworldshow.org/episodes
Death Panel https://www.deathpanel.net/episodes
