As the coronavirus spreads across North America, communities are coming together in mutual-aid to support those most vulnerable to COVID-19. Communities on the frontlines of capitalism’s violence, including low-income workers, communities of color, people with disabilities, the houseless, and those who are incarcerated, are among those who will be disproportionately affected by COVID-19 and efforts to contain the coronavirus. We need all eyes on the frontlines.
In response to the coronavirus, community-based mutual aid groups are forming to support each other by sharing resources, running errands, providing financial support, and emotional care to each other. Today, over 30 groups have emerged to provide community-based mutual-aid in response to the coronavirus.
To find one in your community, follow these links and scroll down for a list of COVID-19 Mutual Aid Groups.
- List of COVID-19 Mutual Aid groups from It’s Going Down
- COVID-19 Mutual Aid & Advocacy Resources (w/ city and town-based links)
- ArcGIS map of global mutual aid efforts
- COVID-19 Resources for Students
While the Trump Administration and global elite botch the coronavirus response, set plans to push through an oil and gas bailout, and leave communities scrambling on their own, we must keep organizing for all forms of social, economic, and environmental justice. The only way to stop Trump’s plans to exacerbate one crisis with another, is acting up now.
Here are a few things you can do this week:
Ensure Safe Housing For All:
In this time of global pandemic, ensuring housing for all is more important than ever. This winter, Oakland moms took on one of the nation’s most notorious landlords and won. Yesterday, Mom’s in Los Angeles followed suit and seized their own house to try to stay safe during the pandemic.
Learn about their campaign and join a webinar from Moms4Housing Oakland and Bargaining for the Common Good network partner, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) about the successful campaign in Oakland that brought the issue of affordable housing and investor speculation to national attention. Register at this link!
Act in Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en:
As we all take measures to address the coronavirus in our own communities, Rising Tide North America is continuing to act in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and their fight to stop the Coastal GasLink Pipeline. Our organizing cannot stop. This is when they’ll try to take everything. All eyes on the frontlines. All eyes on Wet’suwet’en.
KKR is in the process of buying 65% of Coastal GasLink. If we can stop the sale, we can help stop the pipeline from being built. While you’re home this week, take 5 minutes to tweet, email, or call KKR and tell them to divest from the Coastal GasLink Pipeline. Don’t forget to sign the #ShutDownKKR petition. It has 125,000 signatures and growing!
Sample Tweets:
- We cannot stop organizing. This is when they’ll try to take everything. All eyes on the frontlines. All eyes on Wet’suwet’en. #ShutDownKKR: http://bit.ly/stop_kkr
- After laying off more than 33K Toys R Us employees, @KKR_co is now coming after the Wet’suwet’en land with the Coastal GasLink pipeline construction. Rise up with the #WetsuwetenStrong! Tell KKR to divest from the Coastal GasLink pipeline: http://bit.ly/stop_kkr
Read the #ShutDownKKR: Get Your Hands Off Wet’suwet’en Lands! Toolkit for more information on how you can take action.
Advocate and Act for a Just Response to Coronavirus
For more ideas on how you can take action for a just response to the coronavirus, visit and read:
- When Every Community is Ground Zero: Pulling Each Other Through a Pandemic (Mutual Aid Disaster Relief)
- Demands from Grassroots Organizers Concerning COVID-19 (Transformative Spaces)
- Calls for a Just Recovery Response to COVID-19 that Centers The Most Vulnerable (The Climate Justice Alliance)
City/town-based coronavirus mutual aid efforts
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
Dickson Food Bank Volunteer Sign-Up Sheet, Fayetteville
California
Bay Area
East Bay Disabled Folks COVID19 Support Request Form
San Francisco Unified School District Mutual Aid
South Bay Mutual Aid Volunteer and Request Support
People’s Breakfast Oakland Twitter and Website
Sacramento
Sacramento COVID-19 Mutual Aid 2020
Los Angeles
COVID-19 Mutual Aid Resources Links (Los Angeles)
Mutual Aid Action Los Angeles Fundraiser
ASC Los Angeles Mutual Aid Fund
San Diego
San Diego (county-wide) COVID-19 Mutual Aid Volunteer Sign-Up and Facebook Group
LSC of DSA-San Diego COVID-19 Mutual Aid Grocery Shopping
Colorado
Northern Colorado Mutual Aid and Defense request supplies and food, donate food and supplies
Connecticut
Mutual Aid Waterbury, Bridgeport, New Haven
Delaware
Florida
Taking Care of Each Other: Tampa COVID-19 Mutual Aid Volunteer Sign Up
Georgia
Atlanta COVID-19 Solidarity & Mutual Aid Master Resource Document
Food 4 Life Atlanta Donate and Volunteer Program Sign Up
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Bloomington Mutual Aid for COVID-19
Central Illinois Mutual Aid Meta Guide
Champaign County COVID-19 Food Distribution Volunteer Sign-up
Champaign-Urbana COVID-19 Mutual Aid
Chicago COVID-19 Mutual Aid Volunteer Sign-up
COVID-19 Mutual Aid Rockford: Volunteer and Request Support
Indiana
Bloomington No Space for Hate COVID 19 Mutual Aid
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
AS:UU/CCC COVID-19 Kentucky Mutual Aid
Louisiana
New Orleans COVID-19 Mutual Aid Group
Maine
Maine Coronavirus Community Assistance
Maryland
Baltimore Mutual Aid and Emergency Relief Fund
Massachusetts
Boston Solidarity Supply Distro
Mutual Jamaica Plain & Roxbury
Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville
Smith Student Mutual Aid Network
Michigan
Huron Valley COVID-19 Mutual Aid Form
Kalamazoo COVID-19 Mutual Aid List
Mutual Aid Network of Ypsilanti
Washtenaw County Mutual Aid Network
Minnesota
Minneapolis & St. Paul COVID-19 Mutual Aid
South Minneapolis Mutual Aid — COVID 19
Twin Cities DSA Solidarity Fund
Twin Cities Queer and Trans Mutual Aid
Mississippi
Missouri
St. Louis Community Mutual Aid
Montana
Bozeman Solidarity and COVID-2019
Missoula COVID-19 Mutual Aid Community
Nebraska
Covid Mutual Aid Lincoln/Omaha
Nevada
Las Vegas DSA COVID-19 Mutual Aid Form
New Hampshire
Manchester Mutual Aid Spreadsheet
Sea Coast Mutual Aid Spreadsheet
New Jersey
Central New Jersey DSA COVID Mutual Aid Request Sign-Up
North New Jersey COVID-19 Mutual Aid Form
New Mexico
New York
NYC United Against Coronavirus – Resources and Information (includes links to neighborhood mutual aid groups)
Brooklyn Coronavirus Resources Aggregate List
Kensington, Brooklyn Group for Mutual Aid (coronavirus)
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Cleveland Pandemic Response Facebook and Sign Up Form
Cincinnati/ SW Ohio Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid Dayton/Miami Valley
Oklahoma
Oregon
Bend Mutual Aid – Pandemic Partners
Benton County Family Response Team
Klamath Siskiyou Mutual Aid Network
Lane County Mutual Aid Network
Portland-area COVID-19 Offer Support Volunteer Form and Request Support Form
Pennsylvania
Care Web for Philadelphia’s Disability Community During COVID-19
Neighbors helping Neighbors: Request For Aid – Philly Mutual Aid for Folks affected by COVID-19
Rhode Island
Providence Community Mutual Aid Intake Form and Offer Form
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Knoxville First Aid Collective
Knoxville Mutual Aid for COVID-19
Nashville Anarchist Black Cross
Texas
Utah
Salt Lake Valley COVID19 Mutual Aid
Vermont
Vermont Mutual Aid and Other Resources Related to Covid-19 (includes links to local mutual aid groups)
Montpelier-Area COVID-19 Mutual Aid Volunteer Sign-up
Northern NEK VT (Newport Region) – Mutual Aid Contact information
Southern NEK Covid-19 Mutual Aid Volunteer Form
Virginia
Shenandoah Mutual Aid: https://www.facebook.com/shenandoahmutualaid
Washington State
Common Stash Mutual Aid in So Called Olympia
Olympia Mutual Aid for COVID-19 Offer Form and Facebook Group
Seattle Area COVID-19 Request Support Form and Donate
Washington DC
COVID-19 Response/Serve Your Neighbor
East of the River Mutual Aid Fund
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Dane County Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Madison General Defense Committee Mutual Aid
Milwaukee, WI: Community Care and Mutual Aid Sign-Up