Walking around a campus the other day and saw several posters referencing making money donations to a cause to in support of a “mutual” aid action. How is “mutual” aid different than just donating to a non profit / NGO?
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It’s just people helping other people without any sort of means testing for whether or not they deserve it. You set up to hand out free food and it doesn’t matter who shows up, you give them free food, you don’t ask to see their bank statements or make them go through endless paperwork.
They don’t usually have an official organizational structure, but some famous ngos got their start as mutual aid projects. Most of the time it’s just a group of like minded people who just decide to go do something good without an organization telling them how or where.
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