Mutual Aid LA Network Dispatch

Mutual Aid LA Network
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The Mutual Aid LA Network Dispatch is a roundup of ways to contribute to Los Angeles mutual aid efforts in the form of time, money and/or items as well as what resources each group offers.

Episodes

  1. 32: Summer 2025

    07/07/2025

    32: Summer 2025

    Visit https://dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/32-summer/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Know Your Rights Guides: Immigrant Legal Resource Center - tiny.cc/ILRC-RedCard Resource Organizations: Jail Support LA - 424-610-3020 Los Angeles Raids & Rapid Response Network - 888-624-4752 Indigenous Action - IndigenousAction.org The Coalition for Humane Immigration Rights LA - 888-624-4752 Immigrant Defenders Rapid Response Legal Hotline - 213-833-8283 Kids In Need of Defense - 213-274-0170 Poetry Corner: “Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human, by Cole Arthur Riley Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Flat Lining (Instrumental) by HoliznaRAPS is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - "No Frills Salsa" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - Loopster" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - MIdLife by HoliznaCC0 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License. Sound Attributions: - Street_market_5.aif by susiq12 -- https://freesound.org/s/333653/ -- License: Attribution 3.0 - CAMERA SHUTTER.mp3 by mrrap4food -- https://freesound.org/s/619062/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 - Prison Cell Door sound effect.mp3 by endritprenku -- https://freesound.org/s/613498/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 - CRWDApls_Snapping 02_ShaneVincent_GSC24_SpacedOmni-MK012.wav by ShangusBurger -- https://freesound.org/s/764262/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

    13 min
  2. 31: Spring 2025

    03/24/2025

    31: Spring 2025

    Visit https://dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/31-Spring/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Featured Effort: Fire Poppy Project - https://www.instagram.com/firepoppyproject/ Listings Organizations: Mac Park Crew Gente Organizada Northeastern Neighborhood Outreach No Harm KTLA Water Drop LA All Power Books Greater Long Beach Mutual Aid Network Community Solidarity Project Altadena Communal Kitchen This Month’s Book Recommendation: “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - "Late Night Radio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sound Attributions: - 20160414_room.with.fireplace.21.flac by dobroider

    21 min
  3. 29: November 2024

    11/11/2024

    29: November 2024

    Visit dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/29-november/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Free Tables Mentioned: East Hollywood: Hoover St & Marathon St, Los Angeles, CA 90029 Lincoln Heights: 3100 N Broadway, Lincoln Heights, CA 90031 Featured Effort: All Power Free Clinic - www.instagram.com/apfreeclinic/ Listings Organizations: The Lavender Collective, Mac Park Breakfast Crew, Grow Together Glendale, PowerBlossoms, Union de la 8 (LA Tenants Union) Hurricane Helene Mutual Aid Groups: WNC Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR) - https://www.instagram.com/_roar_wnc/ Firestorm Books - https://www.instagram.com/firestormcoop/ Pansy Collective - https://www.instagram.com/pansy.collective/ Asheville Survival Program - https://www.instagram.com/avlsurvival/ Mutual Aid Disaster Relief - https://www.instagram.com/mutualaiddisasterrelief/ First Aid Collective Knoxville (FACK) - https://www.instagram.com/firstaidcollectiveknox/ Tricities Mutual Aid - https://www.instagram.com/tricitiesmutualaid/ Food Not Bombs Tallahassee - https://www.instagram.com/fnb_tally/ MALAN Directory: tiny.cc/malan-directory This Month’s Book Recommendation: “The Future Is Disabled” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Future-Is-Disabled Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. Sound Attributions: CityStreet Summer 130620_01.flac by klankbeeld -- https://freesound.org/s/192205/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

    18 min
  4. 28: September 2024

    09/05/2024

    28: September 2024

    Visit dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/the-mutual-aid-la-dispatch-28-september/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Book List: - “We Are Better Together” by Bill McKibben - “Composting for Community” by Michael Martinez - “Noodlephant” by Jacob Kramer - “Our Little Kitchen” by Jillian Tamaki - “Hey Wall: A Story of Art and Community” by Susan Verde - “The Circles All Around Us” by Brad Montague - “We're Better Together: A Book About Community” by Eileen Spinelli - “Abolition Is Love” by Syrus Marcus Ware - “Everything is Connected” by Jason Gruhl - “Last Stop On Market Street” by Matt De La Peña - “You Hold Me Up” by Monique Gray Smith - “Powwow Day” by Traci Sorell Featured Effort: MALAN Listings Directory - https://malan.softr.app/ Listings Organizations: Food for Comrades, Produce in the Park (MALAN), LA Community Fridges (LACF), Lincoln Heights Outreach Team This Month’s Book Recommendation: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)” by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - http://tiny.cc/EliteCapture Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - "Fuzzball Parade" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - "Divertimento K131" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - "Groundwork" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sound Effect Attributions: - Scribbling On Paper by pogostickz -- https://freesound.org/s/742214/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

    17 min
  5. 27: August 2024

    08/05/2024

    27: August 2024

    Visit tinyurl.com/dispatch-27 to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Featured Effort: Water Drop LA - https://www.waterdropla.org/ Water Drop LA’s 4-Year Anniversary Celebration: http://givebutter.com/wdla4year Listings Organizations: SFV Mutual Aid, LA Street Care, LA Community Car Care, Nobody Fails at Scripps--Scripps College Mutual Aid Collective, 909 Mutual Aid, NoHarm This Month’s Book Recommendation: "The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - record noise by hifijohn -- https://freesound.org/s/245443/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

    17 min
  6. 26: June 2024

    06/05/2024

    26: June 2024

    Visit https://dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/26-june/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Additional Links: - “The Great Good Place” by Ray Oldenburg - https://greatgoodplace.org/ Featured Effort: - Los Angeles Abortion Support Collective (LAASC) - http://laabortionsupport.org/ Listings Organizations: - Food for Comrades - Hope Street Distro - Home-y Made Meals - Pasadena For All - Nuestra SELA - Operation Olive Branch - Every Day Action - Produce in the Park (MALAN) - Norfside Long Beach Outreach This Month’s Book Recommendation: - “Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times” by Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joyful-militancy-bergman-montgomery Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.

    22 min
  7. 25: May 2024

    05/04/2024

    25: May 2024

    Visit tinyurl.com/dispatch-24 to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Additional Links: Jail Support LA Phone Number: 424-388-1230 Private Security for Encampment Donations- givebutter.com/PalestineEncampments BDS Movement- tiny.cc/bdsmovement Boycat App- https://www.boycat.io/ eSim Donations- gazaesims.com/ Featured Effort: Community Loving - http://communityloving.org Listings Organizations: Jail Support LA, Insula Collective, Northeast Neighborhood Outreach (NENO), Los Angeles Abortion Support Collective, No Us Without You LA, Midnight Books, Bicycle Meals, Mutual Aid LA Network This Month’s Book Recommendation: “You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train” by Howard Zinn Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.

    22 min
  8. 24: April 2024

    04/03/2024

    24: April 2024

    Visit https://dispatch.mutualaidla.org/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links. Additional Links: The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee: https://nwtrcc.org/ Project Olive Branch: https://tinyurl.com/ProjOlive Listings Organizations: Resilient Agency, Echo Park Mutual Aid, Pomona College Sustainability, Community Loving, Free Food Collective, 714MutualAid, Mutual Aid Action LA, LA Community Fridges (LACF) This Month’s Book Recommendation: "Status Anxiety" by Alain de Botton Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International License.

    19 min
  9. 23: March 2024

    03/05/2024

    23: March 2024

    Visit tinyurl.com/dispatch-23 for this month's Dispatch with clickable links. Listings Organizations: - Proper Hygiene Project - KTown for All - For the People LA - SWOPLA SWANS - J-TOWN Action and Solidarity, - MARS Collective, - Farm2Power, - Solidarity and Snacks Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.

    17 min
  10. 15: June 2023

    06/07/2023

    15: June 2023

    Visit https://dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/15-june/ to read this Dispatch. Links: Open Art Supply (OAS): https://www.mutualaidla.org/open-art-supply-project OAS Map: https://tiny.cc/oasmap OAS Wishlist: https://tiny.cc/oaswishlist Download our printer-friendly Donation Guide: https://tiny.cc/donationguide

    18 min
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The Mutual Aid LA Network Dispatch is a roundup of ways to contribute to Los Angeles mutual aid efforts in the form of time, money and/or items as well as what resources each group offers.

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