Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks Summit

press release:

Humans United in Mutual Aid Networks

Work sprint and collaboration convergence 

Madison, February 17-20

Gathering with sister projects from Jackson Mississippi, St. Louis MO, Lansing MI, and more.  

Mutual Aid Networks (MANs) are a new type of networked cooperative ‘creating means for everyone to discover and succeed in work they want to do, with the support of their community.’

MANs are a legal, financial, and social framework for coming together around common goals, carrying out work, and earning access to resources in a mutual credit system. A DIY way to redo our economy by redoing how we work together. Ultimately we aim to make it easier to do the community work of your choosing, without having to create or participate in non-profit structure. For example, a MAN-type cooperative could be a framework to support a civilian mental health crisis response team, or to develop a community wealth-generating neighborhood resource center, or to make and maintain a commons garden, or to create a care team for wellbeing in the neighborhood, etc. 

Lots of people and organizations in Madison are ready to organize ourselves in this way, and we’ll be joined by people from around the US and beyond (Argentina! UK!) who are doing their own organizing experiments and collaborating with us.

Let’s see what more we can do together, with some new tools and frameworks. 

The possibilities are endless and the exploration of them is just beginning.

More info here.