The Response: Mutual Aid and Police Accountability with Tha Hood Squad
Channel: Shareable
Date: 2023-01-24

In this episode, we’ve brought on JT, Savage, and Nay from Tha Hood Squad, a mutual aid and police accountability organization based out of the Bay Area. Through their six principles of peace, love, harmony, balance, unity, and justice, the Hood Squad aims to shift the systematic oppression which has targeted the disenfranchised communities of the world.

We discuss their origins as a grassroots art and media collective, their expansion into a very broad array of mutual aid work, including police patrols or “night shifts” and disaster relief, and how Tha Hood Squad reinvests into their community with farming and training for self-sufficiency, self-awareness, and communal responsibility.

Access the full (human-edited) transcript: https://www.shareable.net/podcasts/the-response-mutual-aid-and-police-accountability-with-tha-hood-squad/

Episode credits:
    Host and editor: Robert Raymond (https://twitter.com/robpertray)
    Presenter and executive producer: Tom Llewellyn (https://shareable.net/author/tom-llew...)
    Theme Music: “Meet you on the other side” by Cultivate Beats (https://soundcloud.com/cultivatebeats...)

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