One of Latin America’s smallest nations has a robust network of housing cooperatives, which give access to permanent, affordable housing to citizens at a range of income levels.
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As the conflict continues, social media users are eschewing mainstream charities in favour of grassroots campaigns. It’s not without issues.
The emergence of community fridges during the pandemic helps communities help each other while fighting food waste.
Thousands of racialized women around the world run mutual aid co-ops to help each other and develop their communities.
Once something bound up with other people, more recently ‘happiness’ is seen as something very individual. Has our dependence on each other during lockdown changed our sense of where happiness lies?
Amid emotional devastation and uncertainty, coronavirus is providing the potential for more connectedness, and for radically changing the meanings of community itself.
Stay connected and engaged to the climate change cause, and you might find we emerge from the coronavirus crisis with more hope than before.
People can work together without talking about fighting an enemy.
‘Mutual aid’ groups are springing up all over. It’s a concept first described by Peter Kropotkin in the 19th century.
Thousands of community groups have sprung up around the world to help us stay together while we’re apart.
Black Canadians encounter systemic bias when banking and can have a hard time obtaining loans for their businesses. Mutual aid co-operatives can offer some true alternatives.
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Founder of the DISE Collective & Associate Professor, Global Development & Political Economy, University of Toronto
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