I Saw God in the Anarchists

From Rednecks Rising Media

On Surviving Helene, Building Heaven on Earth, and Seeing God in Each Other

“Does anyone have a boat?” Asked the message that flashed across my screen around 4pm on Tuesday, August 17th, 2021. Haywood County was being pummeled by Tropical Storm Fred and two dear friends of mine needed help. My friend Jon described how the Pigeon River was raging through his sister, Natasha’s, home, and how the two of them were taking refuge on top of the bunkbeds in one of the kids’ rooms. The only road in or out was under water.

Insurrectionary Utopias: Ideas Towards a Liberatory Mutual Aid

From The Anarchist Library by scott crow

Despair, grief, and fear color much our days, often challenging our hopes for the future. These emotions have seeped into daily conversations, media portrayals, and the very fabrics of our lives. Our fragile social bonds in civil society have been pushed to the brink due to ongoing disasters, crisis and seeming uncertainity we all face.

Red Flag Warning: A Review

From Notes Towards an International Libertarian Eco-Socialism by Javier Sethness

Red Flag Warning: Mutual Aid and Survival in California’s Fire Country, eds. Dani Burlison and Margaret Elysia Garcia (Chico, California: AK Press, 2025)

Published on East Bay Syndicalists, 8 September 2025

Red Flag Warning is a new collection of essays and interviews dedicated to exploring mutual aid in the face of the wildfires that have devastated Northern California over the past decade.

Building Family in the Struggle

From Anarchist Agency

Original title: "Building Family in the Struggle: An Interview with The Elements of Mutual Aid"

The Elements of Mutual Aid is an exciting new docuseries project that received a Jen Angel Anarchist Media Grant from Agency and the Institute for Anarchist Studies in 2023. With the project recently having wrapped up the production stage, we were excited to connect with co-directors, Payton and Leah, to learn more about their inspiration, process, and plans for the upcoming release in 2026. Make sure to follow their work for updates on online availability and screenings in your area – website, instagram, kolektiva, kolektiva.media, youtube.

The Eye of Every Storm

From CrimethInc.

Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene

At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed storm collided with Hurricane Helene over the mountains of Southern Appalachia. The resulting catastrophe laid waste to the entire region. At a time when misinformation, rising authoritarianism, and disasters exacerbated by industrially-produced climate change are creating a feedback loop of escalating crisis, it’s crucial to understand disaster response as an integral part of community defense and strategize about how this can play a part in movements for liberation. In the following reflection, a local anarchist involved in longstanding disaster response efforts in Appalachia recounts the lessons that they have learned over the past six weeks and offers advice about how to prepare for the disasters to come.

Anarchism in the Mainstream

From Organise Magazine

In March 2020, when the virus raged across the globe but before we in the UK realised how serious and tragically lethal it would become or how much of a long-term problem it would be, Freedom Press published its first Covid-related update on its news site. Titled *Covid Mutual Aid Groups: A List,* the text came out ten days before the first UK lockdown and stated:

"As the global Covid-19 pandemic is upon us, a number of mutual aid groups have started forming across the country. (...) It is estimated that 2-3 people out of a hundred [infected by Covid] will die. We must do everything we can to prevent this from happening. (...) The Tory government is apparently more concerned with making sure the economy won't collapse than with saving people's lives. (...) Remember: that old lady you see on your grocery shopping and that comrade you know who is suffering from a long-term illness: it is your job to protect them as much as you can."

TOTW: Anarchist Solidarity Networks

Topic of the Week - One way to practice everyday anarchy is by the showing of anarchist solidarity, sometimes through such mechanisms as networks and groups. These anarchist solidarity networks can also be known as anarchist mutual aid networks and groups along with things like your friendly neighborhood anarchist resource network. This week we’re taking a look at anarchist solidarity networks.

Frans de Waal (1948-2024)

From Anarchist Writers

The Dutch-American primatologist and ethologist Frans de Waal died of stomach cancer on 14 March 2024. His research was of interest to anarchists for it centred on primate social behaviour, including conflict resolution, cooperation, inequity aversion and empathy. In other words, subjects which Peter Kropotkin pioneered in Mutual Aid and Ethics. Unusually, de Waal was well aware of Kropotkin’s work and mentioned it in his writings, noting repeatedly how Kropotkin “rightly noted that many animals survive not through struggle, but through mutual aid."

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