Event on Mutual Aid, with Dean Spade and Whitney Hu

The Brooklyn Community Bookstore is hosting a virtual event on Oct 27, 2020, with Dean Spade, author of the book Mutual Aid, and Whitney Hu, organizer and founder of South Brooklyn Mutual Aid.

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around 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. Dean Spade's book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. Writing 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. ​