MISSION. Together, we organize mutual support, aid, education, and community action to meet needs, grow connections, boost courage, and challenge systems of exploitation and harm.
VISION. We envision a better world, in which we all — no exceptions — have the support, friendship, resources, and freedom we need, from caring communities built on
mutuality, solidarity, equality, and justice.
We are seeing changes happen faster and faster, and more and more challenges coming with them. They are often scary, confusing, exhausting — making us feel divided, dehumanized, alone, uncertain, unsafe, and vulnerable. But they also mean opportunities for us to turn things around, welcome change, and rebuild better.
MUTUALITY VALUES AND PRINCIPLES. Without close connection and support from community members, neighbors, friends, and the public, people often feel powerless, voiceless, and alone. We aim to regain touch, stay afloat, and thrive via mutuality: courageous caring, commitment, and deeds for one another.
Solidarity. Mutuality involves standing solidly together in support of one another. Building connections, trust, and reliance is our best hope for survival, sanity, fulfillment, and opportunity.
Humanity. Mutuality puts humans and humanity first — ahead of money, corporations, technologies, governments, and armies, and their harmful, abusive, and inhuman practices and structures.
Justice. Mutuality seeks fairness, liberty, and justice. We aim to liberate one another collectively from inequalities and brutalities — by other people, corporations, or unjust governments.
Inclusion. Mutuality includes all of us, undivided by race, class, nationality, beliefs, gender identity, orientation, or abilities. We cherish and respect everyone’s differences and nonconformities.
WHAT WE DO. We seek to spark, build, and spread a culture of mutuality, through projects and activities that help people:
Come closer and keep company together, talk about needs and hopes, show differences and personalities openly and bravely, and share support, reliability, fulfillment, and joy;
Learn and ask questions about the world together, imagine and enact creative betterments, understand what’s happening, what’s changing, what to do about it, and show how;
Build community power and support networks — actively engaging in the politics and economics of improving society — centering human relationships and non-transactional sharing;
Connect and build trust, gain control and agency over their lives, match needs to resources, humanely resolve conflicts, and wean from and resist harmful systems and state institutions.