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A four-part documentary series exploring the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of anti-authoritarian mutual aid.

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The Elements of Mutual Aid is a four-part docuseries that explores the values, structures, healing potential, and logistics of anti-authoritarian mutual aid in North America.

First episode, Fire, drops May 1st, 2026

View it for free on YouTube or PeerTube!
Follow us for more updates, screening tour stops, and release schedule.

#mutualaid #acab #anarchism #community #documentary by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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Just 3 weeks until our first episode drops! Check out a breakdown of each chapter here and get ready to watch these with friends all thru May.

Share with your friends and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube and PeerTube channels (Links in bio).

Art by @mariamedem ✨ About The Series: Chapters & Release Schedule by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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Interested in the history, the theory, and practice models of mutual aid? Join us for a home screening and facilitated discussion of part one of a new documentary series, The Elements of Mutual Aid, on October 24. RSVP for the address. Survival through solidarity! #mutualaid #eastnashville taken in Inglewood, Nashville, Tennessee by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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As part of the Sankofa Exchange Conference, we are proud to screen 'The Elements of Mutual Aid,' a four-part docu-series that explores how to transform our mutual aid efforts into deeply relational, strategic, and revolutionary practices. Each part connects to that day's theme.

🔥 Fire: Mutual aid is our spark of humanity, and we must defend it as those in power try to stomp it out. This chapter sets the series' foundation: What is mutual aid, how is it different from charity, why is it at odds with those in power, and can it help sustain our resistance to oppression? Meet supply distros in Detroit and Atlanta alongside unhoused families in Los Angeles reclaiming homes from the State.

🌊 Water: Colonization & capitalism are dams holding us back from each other. This chapter is all about tearing them down so we can let mutual aid flow between us. We discuss creating safer spaces, handling crisis without police, & navigating power dynamics, �burnout, & conflict. Meet a self-defense project for trans femmes of color in Oakland, a group building crisis response skills in Detroit, and a community project combating patriarchy in Los Angeles.

🌳 Earth: This chapter looks at how to grow projects with strong, interconnected roots that can support communities. It explores how local needs and capacity should inform our projects, how we can network smaller projects over large areas, and how we can build infrastructure that outlasts crisis points. Meet a harm reduction project in Tucson, an international decentralized disaster response network, and a web of mutual aid centers in Puerto Rico.

🌬️ Air: Like the wind, our conditions are always shifting. The spirit of Air teaches us to speak, listen, strategize, and change with the seasons. This chapter explores decision-making, managing resources without hoarding them, weighing the pros and cons of formality and scale, and making our projects accessible.

📅 October 5th - 8th
📌 The Lord Baltimore Hotel, 20 West Baltimore Street
🎟️ Register at the link in bio or at www.blaqequity.org/pride

#SankofaExchange2026 #BaltimoreBLAQPride #BLAQEquity by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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Saturday, October 10, at 3 p.m., at CÉDA (2515 Rue Delisle)

Mutual Aid Means Fight Back

How can we prepare our networks and neighborhoods to live without the state? The codirectors of The Elements of Mutual Aid will share selections from their docuseries and discuss ways we can challenge our communities to deepen our mutual aid practices as we face climate and economic disaster. Mutual aid cannot just be a form of “circle A charity”; we must grow an accessible and anti-state movement that builds real autonomy. The directors offer the series as a tool and invitation to reflect, strategize, and onboard new people to the movement.

Cassa & Maroon are anarchist organizers based in Southeast Michigan. They’ve participated in international solidarity work through Mutual Aid Disaster Relief and have co-authored zines such as Red Flags: Before You Join That Org.

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Le samedi 10 octobre, à 15 h, au CÉDA (2515, rue Delisle)

L’aide mutuelle signifie riposter

Comment pouvons-nous préparer nos réseaux et quartiers à vivre sans l’État? Les codirecteurices de The Elements of Mutual Aid partageront des sélections de leur série documentaire et discuteront des moyens que nous pouvons mettre au défi nos communautés d’approfondir nos pratiques d’entraide alors que nous faisons face à une catastrophe climatique et économique. L’entraide ne peut pas être simplement une forme de « charité cercle A » ; nous devons développer un mouvement accessible et anti-étatique qui construit une véritable autonomie. Les réalisateurices proposent la série comme un outil et une invitation à réfléchir, à élaborer des stratégies et à intégrer de nouvelles personnes au mouvement.

Cassa et Maroon sont des organisateurices anarchistes basé.e.s dans le sud-est du Michigan. Iels ont participé à des actions de solidarité internationale via Mutual Aid Disaster Relief et ont coécrit des fanzines tels que Red Flags : Before You Join That Org. taken in CÉDA by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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We're heartbroken hearing that Curtis has passed from this world. They left us with their vision for abolition, one that they breathed life into alongside their community in Detroit. They showed us that abolition is a daily practice, that sharing skills for crisis and conflict support is more powerful than a few of us specializing in them, and that supplanting the police and prisons depends on our ability to weave rich nets of safety with our communities.

Curtis put their full life force and spirit into struggling for an abolitionist reality. We're tasked with carrying their vision and wisdom forward. Deep thanks to our friend for helping illuminate our path toward liberation. We're sending comfort and strength to all those they left behind.

Learn more from Curtis' abolitionist vision and work with @detroitsafetyteam in Chapter 3, Water of The Elements of Mutual Aid documentary series. taken in Detroit, Michigan by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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🤝 DOCU SCREENINGS: “ELEMENTS OF MUTUAL AID”
🔥 CHAPTER 1 “FIRE” OCTOBER 15 FROM 8 PM
The Elements of Mutual Aid is a four-part docuseries that explores the values, structures, healing potential, and logistics of anti-authoritarian mutual aid in North America.

Weaving together over 60 voices and profiling 15 groups across North America, the series explores the radical values, infrastructure, healing ways, and logistics of mutual aid work.

The screening will be in English

🔥 CHAPTER 1 “FIRE” OCTOBER 15 FROM 8 PM
🌎 CHAPTER 2 “EARTH” OCTOBER 29 FROM 8 PM
💧 CHAPTER 3 “WATER” NOVEMBER 12 FROM 8 PM
🌬 CHAPTER 4 “AIR” NOVEMBER 26 FROM 8 PM

Fore more details: https://theelementsofmutualaid.com taken in Biblio-Café-Steki La Zone by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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Join us for two screenings of chapters from The Elements of Mutual Aid, a four-part series weaving together experiences and perspectives on community self-determination.
We'll screen Chapter 1: Fire at Wooden Shoe Books on Thur, Sept 24 at 6:30pm, followed by a discussion about how we can break down "giver/receiver" dynamics, practice mutual aid beyond distribution efforts, and build up community autonomy in place of dependence on the State.

We'll screen Chapter 2: Earth at Iglesias Gardens on Fri, Sept 25 at 6:30pm, followed by a discussion about how to build up scalable infrastructure to meet more of our communities' needs and defend the autonomy we create.

The filmmakers are currently on a 6-month screening tour connecting conversations across North America. Check out the trailer here: https://youtu.be/VMLLlV6XyMg

Come ready for discussion and bring your friends who you want to be in conversation with.

The Wooden Shoe is ADA accessible excepting the restroom and meetings marked “”downstairs””. All events are masked (provided). Parking is available metered on the street with the two closest paid parking garages at 1457 South St and 545 S 11th St. Public transit bus lines 45 & 47 stop within short walking distance. Please let us know if you have any other accessibility requirements and we will do our best to accommodate.

All events are free, no RSVP required. by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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🦄 This Saturday! Please register for the Eventbrite seating is limited! This is not the book festival - you will not be talked at, you will be challenged and asked to challenge us! Show up ready!

This documentary features words from our mentors Lorenzo and JoNina Ervin! We will be watching the section "Water" on healing. Link to register in bio 🖤 by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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Latest episode, Elementary Anarchy: A Discussion on the Elements of Mutual Aid out now!

The concept of mutual aid has become popularized in the past two decades as an approach to everything from disaster response to meeting basic needs. Even though the term mutual aid is not unique to anarchists, these projects have become a primary way that anarchists spend their time and intervene in the world. While this is promising, some of the roots of the practice, and some of its insurgent possibilities, have been lost throughout this popularization.

We sit down with Casa and Maroon to discuss their new documentary series The Elements of Mutual Aid. We discuss the roots of the practice in communities, the ways that mutual aid can escape simple political orthodoxies, and how it can form the foundation of not only a response to the crises that we are living through, but also a route through which we can build the capacity to fight for something better in the midst of collapse.

For more information on the documentary, including information on upcoming showings, go to https://theelementsofmutualaid.com/ or their ig page @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

The series is available for viewing on PeerTube at https://kolektiva.media/c/elementsofmutualaid/videos by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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Mutual Aid Means Fight Back!
Film screening & community discussion

Saturday, October 3rd
At Black Box, 95 Empire St, Providence
From 2:00 - 4:00

Join us to discuss the movement for mutual aid -- its origins, and how it's changed over the last 7 years. We argue that autonomous mutual aid must go far beyond distribution; that we can't lock ourselves into a giving cycle that burns us out and leaves no time for strategy. If we want to live free from the state, how are we organizing to prepare our communities for liberation?

Bring a friend and snacks if you can!

Accessibility Info:

Wheelchair accessible entry and restrooms are available

We'll be watching Chapter 1: Fire of The Elements of Mutual Aid docuseries.

Runtime: 52 minutes

Mutual aid is the spark of our humanity that we have to defend while those in power try to stomp it out.

This chapter sets the foundation: what is mutual aid, how is it different than charity, and why is it at odds with the ruling class? taken in Providence, Rhode Island by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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Join us for two screenings of chapters from The Elements of Mutual Aid, a four-part series weaving together experiences and perspectives on community self-determination.

We'll screen Chapter 1: Fire at Wooden Shoe Books on Thur, Sept 24 at 6:30pm, followed by a discussion about how we can break down "giver/receiver" dynamics, practice mutual aid beyond distribution efforts, and build up community autonomy in place of dependence on the State.

We'll screen Chapter 2: Earth at Iglesias Gardens on Fri, Sept 25 at 6:30pm, followed by a discussion about how to build up scalable infrastructure to meet more of our communities' needs and defend the autonomy we create.

The filmmakers are currently on a 6-month screening tour connecting conversations across North America. Check out the trailer here: https://youtu.be/VMLLlV6XyMg

Come ready for discussion and bring your friends who you want to be in conversation with! The Elements of Mutual Aid presents Mutual Aid Means Fight Back! Two Film sceenings and community discussions: Ch 1: Fire Thu Sept 24 6:30-9pm Wooden Shoe Books 704 South St, Philadelphia, PA | Ch 2: Earth Fri, Sept 25 6:30-9pm Iglesias Gardens 425 Arlington St, Philadelphia, PA by @the.elements.of.mutual.aid

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