Ep 89 - Rockin' with Kropotkin w/ Lucy Diavolo

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Teen Vogue politics editor Lucy Diavolo joins us to discuss what will hopefully be the story of this crisis: neighbors organizing themselves into mutual aid networks to support each other against the virus and the capitalist system's attempts to profit from the disorder. We talk about the concept of mutual aid historically, how it's emerged in the last 15 years in the front lines of disaster relief, and some of the new ways its emerging in these early days of the pandemic. There's a lot to cover, but we talk about grocery funds and distribution, food pantries, rent strikes, squatting, childcare, self-care, and much more. Then we talk a bit about the philosophy of mutual aid: does it provide an image of a better world, or just help us survive through the collapse of civilization?

Find Lucy's work @SatansJacuzzi or on Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/contributor/lucy-diavolo

Her article we discuss: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/people-fighting-coronavirus-mutual-aid-efforts-help-each-other

Also see: https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/ and their Mutual Aid Safety Guide

https://gothamist.com/news/neighbors-mobilize-help-each-other-during-coronavirus-pandemic

Article in Commune about Rent Strike and disaster relief: https://communemag.com/rent-and-its-discontents/

Vacant homes seized in LA: https://itsgoingdown.org/a-dozen-vacant-homes-reclaimed-by-unhoused-tenants-in-la-as-calls-for-rent-strike-grow-across-us/

IGD round-up of mutual aid initiatives: https://itsgoingdown.org/autonomous-groups-are-mobilizing-mutual-aid-initiatives-to-combat-the-coronavirus/

LA Tenants Union demands: https://medium.com/@LATenantsUnion/declaraci%C3%B3n-sobre-el-covid-19-demands-in-response-to-the-covid-19-crisis-f7353925d298

Sex Worker Organizing Project mutual aid fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/z6w8v5

-Black and Pink penpal signup: https://www.blackandpink.org/penpal-sign-up

Anarchist Black Cross guide to letter writing: https://nycabc.wordpress.com/write-a-letter/

DSA grocery fund: bit.ly/covid19aid

Unity and Separation from Endnotes 4: https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/4/en/endnotes-preface

Closing song: Devendra Banhart and Beck - Life During Wartime

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome to
0:09.8	welcome to Antifada where socially distance unrest is maybe not best, but what we're working with at the moment.
0:19.0	I'm AP Andy.
0:22.0	I'm Amy Peck and we have with us Lucy Diabolo. We're not very far from each other in North
0:32.4	Brooklyn but we are talking on Skype nonetheless
0:35.7	same neighborhood worlds away right hopefully we'll hang out in person one one day
0:42.1	so Lucy is a politics editor at Teen Vogue and this week she wrote an article
0:47.5	about mutual aid, the mutual aid networks that are starting up all around the country the constant of mutual aid and I got to say you beat
0:56.2	The New York Times to the punch she'd be Gothamist to the punch
0:59.6	Teethoke is good. Oh, thanks. Yeah, we try, you know. So hopefully we'll have some teen
1:06.6	listeners.
1:07.6	Home from school, you. Yeah, it's, you know, we have a definitely have an ethos of sort of
1:11.7	punching above our weight class so and it's
1:15.5	honestly it's because of the the young folks that we're even in a position to do
1:20.3	this right if they weren't paying attention to the work we're doing
1:24.4	none of this would be for anything. Oh yeah, Zoomers I keep saying this they might be
1:29.7	our last hope of saving humanity as scary scary as that is, as scary as they are to me as a
1:36.2	millennial, I believe in them. Yeah, they're really not that scary once you get to know
1:42.2	them. I mean, I'll be honest, it's intimidating. I think the
1:46.1	further you get from your teenage years, regardless of your generation, the scarier it gets, but like, I don't know, it's honestly like the best part of the job, right, is getting to meet the young readers online in physical spaces as well once we're you know able to be
2:04.3	uh socially proximal again
2:08.4	uh... but yeah most of my contact with them has been limited to Tic Tucks and they are very cool.
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