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YuushaRuby
@YuushaRuby

I’m still confused why people keep asking for “mutual aid” when they mean “direct aid”

Edit: https://cohost.org/RubyMayValentine/post/4072693-from-sacramento-radi


YuushaRuby
@YuushaRuby

From Sacramento radical education

“Direct aid is a tactic; you making lunch for a friend.
Mutual aid is a strategy; the relationship that contextualizes that "free lunch" within a framework of solidarity & mutually-assured survival.
Food security is a goal; that we all have lunch.

In any radical work it is integral to not conflate strategy for goals, tactics for strategy, tactics for goals, et cetera.
Each is a tool for accomplishing the broader objective, i.e. a tactic serves a strategy which serves a goal.

When we disregard these conceptual delineations & operational protocols we are often left treading water, or worse, moving backwards.
Whether building the new world or tearing down the old one

without using these tools effectively, we do a disservice to our loved ones.“