May-June 2022, Events in Europe

I’m so grateful that Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis and the Next has been recently published in  ItalianCatalan, and Czech and is forthcoming from various publishers in Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, German, Korean.

I’m doing some events this May and June in Europe related to these versions being published. Here’s the current information on events, some still being finalized.

May 28, 18:00, Prague Anarchist Book Fai

Cover of Czech edition of Mutual Aid

June 2, Desgraca, Lisbon

June 8 Barcelona

June 10 Ateneo La Maliciosa, Madrid

June 15   Milan – Circolo Anarchico Ponte della Ghisolfa

June 16 Florence – Comitato di vicinato di San Casciano (Firenze)

June 17 Bologna – Vag 61 Social Center

June 19 Rome – Forte Prenestino Social Center

Last week in June, details still TBD, Berlin. Book forthcoming from _worten&meer_.

Workshop Series: Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups

October 2021-January 2022 I am offering this series of four workshops about how to meet common obstacles facing mutual aid groups. For each of the posted workshops, you can find the slides, links to resources mentioned, templates of proposals I discussed in the workshops, and other tools in the links below each video here. The last in the series is coming up January 20. Register here.

WORKSHOP 1: No Masters, No Flakes

Group culture, capacity, overwork, procrastination, and perfectionism in mutual aid groups.

Presentation slides (PDF)
Results from the live polls (PDF)

Resources
Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 2): Decision-Making (video)

WORKSHOP 2: Decision-Making

Slides
Poll results

Resources
Dean Spade: Facilitating Conversations about Capacity in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Dean Spade: Burnout in Mutual Aid Groups (video)
Building Capacity for Mutual Aid Groups (Workshop 1): No Masters, No Flakes! (video)
Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall Street) (video)

WORKSHOP 3: Skills for Abolitionist Practice

Live transcription is available here.

A workshop with Dean Spade about giving and receiving feedback in mutual aid groups.

Resources

WORKSHOP 4: Bringing New People Into the Work

More videos from this series: