The Response: Mutual Aid with Genean of the Common Humanity Collective
Channel: Shareable
Date: 2022-12-13

Today on the show, we’ve brought on Genean from Common Humanity Collective — a mutual aid organization based out of California’s Bay Area.

When the pandemic began in 2020, it felt like there was a huge spike in mutual aid efforts.

But where are things now? What have mutual aid organizations, and the left more broadly, learned from the last couple of years? How do we continue to make sure that the mutual in mutual aid remains a central pillar of our efforts? And how can we politicize our work within the communities we’re engaging with?

We explore these pressing questions in this week’s interview — along with a lot of other stuff on mutual aid and ways to plug in.

Access the full (human-edited) transcript: https://shareable.net/podcasts/the-response-common-humanity-collective

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

Additional Resources:
- Common Humanity Collective (https://www.commonhumanitycollective.org/) and on Twitter (https://twitter.com/chumanityc), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/chumanityc/), and Mastadon (https://kolektiva.social/@commonhumanitycollective).
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