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My name is Donna Al-Kurd, and this is It Could Happen here.

I'm an associate professor of political science and a researcher of Arab and Palestinian politics. Today on the podcast, we have Danielle Cantor, and she'll be talking to us about mutual aid work in Israel, leftist politics in Israel, and her personal journey. Thank you so much for being on the show.

Hi. So yeah, if you'd like to introduce us to yourself and your organization, Culture of Solidarity, that would be fantastic.

Sure. Yeah. Hi. I'm Danielle. I run with a beautiful community, a mutual aid called Culture of Solidarity.

I don't know if people here are familiar with mutual aid work or if I should give a little explanation about that. I mean,

you can give a spiel, yeah. A little spiel, yeah. Just basically kind of caring for your community

through different like aid programs while resisting the systems that kind of preserve their

poverty and their oppression. That's how I view what mutual aid work is. And yeah, so we run a

mutual aid. It runs in many forms, but mostly we have a food security program that supports kind of the people that fall in between the cracks of the systems within Israel and Palestine.

Well, obviously, the systems within Israel and in Palestine, we work mainly in Area C in the West Bank in Mesafaliyata.

Yeah, so we do food security, like food packs that are culturally appropriate for each community receiving them based off of what they

are asking, whether it's diapers, baby formula, you know, fit to each holiday. Now we just

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