Why I Joined DSA and the Libertarian Socialist Caucus
I have spent much of my life close to institutions that claim to protect people while controlling them.
I have spent much of my life close to institutions that claim to protect people while controlling them.
There is a tendency to reduce mutual aid to food drives, free clothes, community refrigerators, or somebody passing out bottled water at a protest. All of that can absolutely be mutual aid. But if that is as far as we take it, we are missing most of the point.
Austin's budget vote begins August 12. One category of public safety spending cannot legally be reduced. The other can be cut in an afternoon.
How I Learned to Connect the Dots
Violence rarely has a single cause. But almost everyone who commits it believes they had a reason — and that belief is where prevention has to begin.