Disaster Anarchy

Disaster Anarchy

From It's Going Down

Rhiannon Firth on Mutual Aid in an Age of Climate Change


On this episode of It’s Going Down, we speak with Rhiannon Firth, author of Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Actionabout the growth of autonomous disaster relief efforts, grassroots anarchist initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, and collective responses to climate change, both in the UK and in the US.

During our discussion, we map out attempts by the state to both recuperate and contain mutual aid movements and focus on the need for radicals to not dilute their politics. We look back at historical examples such as Occupy Sandy and recent responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and ask how these experiments can influence the coming terrain impacted by the realities of climate chaos.

More Info: Rhiannon Firth on Pluto Press and Twitter and Disaster Anarchy: Mutual Aid and Radical Action.

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This stale talk of Climate Change makes those using it feel like tools of wider political agendas. I'd like less talk of CC and more of the much-overshadowed issue of ECOCIDE.

In days where the German Greenpeace has bowed to the coal industry (which means the continuation of the devastation by RWE for lignite coal), because "Climate Change" and the absolute imperative to support Ukraine, the question becomes crucially relevant. Gelderloos at least is one of the few anarchists to be raising it anf that's great, tho I can't stand these liberal anarchoids paying (unpaid?) lip service to statist and corporate agendas, discourse and policies.

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