Mutual Aid DuPage 101: Nuts and Bolts For New Folks
Channel: Mutual Aid DuPage
Date: 2021-10-14

Learn about how you can get involved in Mutual Aid DuPage, a mutual aid collective in the Fox River Valley Region of Illinois. We operate on stolen Anishinaabe, Miami, Oceti Sakowin, Peoria, Badewadmiakiwen, and Chippewa lands. 

Here is a link to the slides from this talk: 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q5inpMhsGVQCeD1VsWS8z9xFvYkNSFxwKhmEy3kji9g/edit?usp=sharing

Visit:
https://linktr.ee/mutualaiddupage
or 
mutualaiddupage.com
to learn more.

0:00 Video Facilitator Introductions
2:00 Land Acknowledgement
5:36 What is Mutual Aid?
11:10 Mutual Aid is not Charity.
13:11 How Mutual Aid DuPage (MAD) started.
15:00 MAD's values.
16:57 What MAD is currently doing.
18:42 Volunteering or organizing with us.
23:05 How MAD is structured. 
24:50 Work we've already done in the community.
26:36 Accountability and decision making in MAD. 
29:10 How to sign up for MAD.
30:37 Call debrief, we talk about our hopes for a beautiful future.