Category: Blog
We really need you now! Mutual Aid for Social Justice – in Madison and beyond
Hi friends, I’m writing to ask you to help with our crowdfunding campaign for our Madison Wisconsin Mutual Aid Network pilot site – the Mutual Aid Workspace (the MAW) at the Social Justice Center, in the sincere belief that doing this successfully for us helps all our related projects more successfully build resources in the…
Report from HUMANs 2018 General Membership Meeting
Hello! Our HUMANs 2018 Annual General Membership Meeting was a smashing success, resulting in some deeper common understandings of where we are in our collective and individual site work, a new currency design and policy, and a great new Board of Directors. Here are our notes, taken collectively and still in progress. Here are the…
HUMANs Annual General Membership Meeting – 9/14 and 9/15, 2-4pm CDT
Hello HUMANs, Please mark your calendars for the HUMANs Annual General Membership Meeting! It’s a 2-parter, but if you can only make one be there on Saturday for the Board election. Friday September 14, 2-4pm CDT HUMAN Economy design – discussion and vote. We’ll have a few proposals for how we approach our use of…
why we’re quiet…
Hello mutualistas, I realize I haven’t posted here for quite a while and thought I should say hello, and let you know why. The positive: There’s just a lot happening on the ground, complicated things to work through in order to make our projects happen. Quite amazing things! But we have to lay solid groundwork…
Trying out MAN Up donation page
Hello all, As you know if you’ve been keeping up with these posts, the HUMANs and the Mutual Aid Network Cooperative project in general have been operating without a regular funding source since Feb. 2017. One whole year! Which means that no one working on this receives any kind of salary or life subsidy, which…
Mutual Aid Networks on a Public Affair WORT 89.9 fm
Friday, February 16, 2018 on A Public Affair with Guest Host Rebecca Kemble – Reclaiming the Commons. Substitute host Rebecca Kemble explores the idea of “the commons,” a type of model in which resources are managed and accessible to all members of a community. She is joined by Stephanie Rearick, founder of Madison’s Mutual Aid…
My 2017 MAN Year in Review
appy new year! (yeah, I know it’s a bit late but this too-long post took too-long to write! but you can take too-long to read it, there’s plenty of good stuff to be found) I’m excited to see what big developments 2018 will bring, and expect that we’ll have some happy ones in MAN-land. There’s…
Calling all geeks!
Hello, We’ll be hosting a little Mutual Aid Network orientation and tech plans discussion on Tuesday January 16 at 10am CST. Same web meeting we always use. Here’s a podcast that the meeting organizer, Lisha Sterling of Geeks Without Bounds (thanks Lisha!!), recorded. To give you some background. Here’s the event page where you can…
Feb 2017 HUMANs Summit Report
Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks hosted a skillshare and work sprint summit in Madison WI February 17-20, 2017. This is the invitation and schedule, to give you a sense of what it was all about. A more thorough written report may or may not be forthcoming, but here are some pictures and some notes…