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Email us and a neighbor will help.","Loading","Fetching the latest fridge info…",{"href":29,"label":30},"mailto:mutualaiddoorcounty@gmail.com?subject=Join%20the%20Network","JOIN NETWORK","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.sanity.io\u002Fimages\u002F1qb86j9s\u002Fproduction\u002Ff1012f936d34e1a0232ff15ab906cc3abdfc8d93-1117x499.png","Mutual Aid Meetings Monthly","Main",[35,39,51,54,63],{"children":36,"href":37,"label":38},null,"\u002F","Home",{"children":40,"href":42,"label":50},[41,44,47],{"href":42,"label":43},"\u002Fabout","Our Mission",{"href":45,"label":46},"\u002Ffinancials","Financials",{"href":48,"label":49},"\u002Fcontact","Contact","About Us",{"children":36,"href":52,"label":53},"\u002Fwhat-is-mutual-aid","What Is Mutual Aid",{"children":55,"href":57,"label":62},[56,59],{"href":57,"label":58},"\u002Fprojects","DCMA Projects",{"href":60,"label":61},"\u002Fupdates","Updates","Projects",{"children":36,"href":64,"label":65},"\u002Fget-involved","Get Involved","Door County Mutual Aid","Skip to content",{"data":69,"sourceMap":-1},{"books":70,"cta":104,"ctaBody":106,"ctaHeading":105,"heroEyebrow":107,"heroHeading":108,"kropotkinHook":109,"lede":110,"looksLikeCta":111,"looksLikeHeading":113,"looksLikeIntro":114,"looksLikeItems":115,"looksLikeOutro":122,"organizedHeading":123,"organizedParagraphs":124,"questions":127,"questionsHeading":137,"readingClosing":138,"readingCta":139,"readingHeading":141,"readingIntro":142,"readingNote":143,"securityCta":144,"seo":147,"solidarityHeading":150,"solidarityParagraphs":151,"whyHeading":155,"whyParagraphs":156},[71,77,82,88,94,99],{"author":72,"difficulty":73,"length":74,"summary":75,"title":76},"Dean Spade","Lighter","~150 pages","Spade lays out what mutual aid is, how it's different from charity and nonprofits, and why it matters right now. The second half gets practical: how groups make decisions, handle conflict, split up the work, and keep from burning people out. It reads like advice from someone who has done this and watched it go sideways a few times.","Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)",{"author":78,"difficulty":73,"length":79,"summary":80,"title":81},"Robin Wall Kimmerer","~100 pages","Kimmerer starts with picking serviceberries and turns it into a question about why people hoard when the natural world runs on sharing. She holds up a gift economy, where abundance keeps moving, against a market economy, where scarcity is the whole point. It's short, warm, and closer to a long essay than a book of theory.","The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World",{"author":83,"difficulty":84,"length":85,"summary":86,"title":87},"Peter Kropotkin","Heavier","~300 pages","Kropotkin pushes back on the idea that nature is nothing but competition, stacking up examples of animals and people surviving by working together. He moves through ants, grazing herds, medieval craft guilds, and village commons to show cooperation running through all of history. The ideas underneath everything else on this list start here, but the writing is from 1902 and the examples pile up, so most people take a chapter or two rather than the whole thing.","Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution",{"author":89,"difficulty":90,"length":91,"summary":92,"title":93},"Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis","Moderate","~190 pages","Written by organizers from the LA Tenants Union, it argues that rent itself is the problem, not only rent that's too high. It moves between ground-level stories of tenant organizing and eviction defense and a bigger argument about landlords and housing treated as an investment. The tone is a rallying cry, not a neutral survey, and it assumes you're a little comfortable with left political language.","Abolish Rent",{"author":95,"difficulty":90,"length":96,"summary":97,"title":98},"Richard Rothstein","~350 pages","Rothstein documents how governments at every level built racial segregation into American housing through zoning, federal mortgage rules, where public housing got placed, and more. Each chapter stacks up cases, which makes the argument hard to dispute but can feel like reading a legal brief. No background needed, though you may want to take it in chunks.","The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America",{"author":100,"difficulty":73,"length":101,"summary":102,"title":103},"George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison","~200 pages","The book puts a name to the economic thinking that's been the default since the 1980s and traces where it came from. It walks through how a fringe theory became plain common sense, and what that did to public services, wages, and politics along the way. Short chapters, plainspoken, adapted from the authors' documentary.","Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism",{"href":64,"label":105},"Get involved","None of this works without people. Come say hi!","The Basics","What is mutual aid?","The phrase comes from a 1902 book by Peter Kropotkin, who noticed that people and animals get through hard conditions by cooperating, not only by competing. Mutual aid is that same instinct, done on purpose.","Mutual aid is neighbors taking care of each other directly. Food, rides, repairs, money, time. It runs on a simple idea: everyone's got something to offer, and everyone needs a hand sometimes.",{"href":57,"label":112},"See our projects","What it looks like","Around here, mutual aid looks like:",[116,117,118,119,120,121],"A community fridge stocked with rescued food","A repair café where people fix bikes, clothes, and lamps","Rides to medical appointments","Help covering a rent or utility bill","Care shifts for a neighbor who's sick or recovering","Showing up after a storm","If one of those sounds like your kind of thing, our Projects page has what's up and running in Door County right now.","How it's organized",[125,126],"There's no director and no board handing down orders. People form small working groups around a project and figure things out together. Anyone can pitch a new idea. If you take on a task, folks are counting on you to follow through or let them know you can't. It's less complicated than it sounds.","We're a public group, and we pay attention to safety. Our security norms cover how we handle sensitive information and look out for each other.",[128,131,134],{"answer":129,"question":130},"Nope. Charity keeps the giver and the receiver in fixed roles. Mutual aid mixes them up and shares the decisions around.","Isn't this just charity with extra steps?",{"answer":132,"question":133},"It's honest about why people go without, and some people hear that as political. It isn't tied to a party and we don't run candidates. Anyone who shares the mission is welcome.","Is it political?",{"answer":135,"question":136},"Not at all! Most people involved are neither. You give what you can, and you ask when you need to. That's the whole deal.","Do I need to be broke or an activist to take part?","Questions people ask","Most of these are at the Door County Library, and we're glad to lend our copies. Got one we should add?",{"href":48,"label":140},"Suggest a book","Start reading","Want to go deeper? Here are six, in the order we'd hand them to someone new. Tap a book to see what you're getting into. Start at the top.","The difficulty notes are relative to each other, not a promise that any of them is a breeze. If you don't read much nonfiction, pick a Lighter one and take your time. There's no test.",{"href":145,"label":146},"\u002Fabout#security","Read our security norms",{"description":148,"title":149},"Mutual aid explained: solidarity not charity, what it looks like in Door County, and a short reading list to go deeper.","What Is Mutual Aid? | Door County Mutual Aid","Solidarity, not charity",[152,153,154],"Charity has two roles. Someone gives, someone receives. The giver decides who qualifies and what they get. The person receiving is expected to be grateful and to prove they deserve it.","Mutual aid doesn't sort people that way. Whoever cooks a meal this month might need a ride next month. Everyone taking part has a say in how things run, and there's no application to fill out.","This isn't a knock on helping people! It's just a different idea about how help should work. In our principles we call community well-being a shared responsibility, not a service delivered to clients.","Why people need it",[157,158],"It's easy to assume that someone struggling made bad choices, or that the government already has a program for this. Usually the real story is that wages, rent, medical bills, and the drive to the nearest clinic were all set by decisions made somewhere else. The gaps are built in. Mutual aid fills them now. The bigger fights take longer.","If you want the full account of how those gaps got there, George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison's Invisible Doctrine covers the economics, and Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law covers how it played out in housing."]