Join & Support Mutual Aid Groups
Creating Our Own Safety Nets
Federal and state funding are being cut for healthcare and other essential community services.
With government-provided aid under attack, we will increasingly have to rely on each other.
Let’s build resilience to weather this fight by building alternative networks.
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Support these mutual aid organizations in Our Area
Community alliance of lane county (CALC)
“CALC works to educate and organize for peace, human dignity, and social, racial and economic justice. At the Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC), our work is guided by a set of core values that inspire and inform everything we do. These values reflect our commitment to creating a more equitable, just, compassionate, and inclusive community. Our values support our vision that Another World is Possible. We are committed to upholding these values internally, within the policies, process and culture of the organization, and externally, in our community-facing work.”
NAC - Neighborhood Anarchist Collective and their Eugene Resource Guide
The NAC holds events called “Share Fairs,” the purpose of which “is to connect people with resources, services, and each other in a convenient and fun way. The fair will be providing free resources and services from local organizations and community groups to unhoused and working class members of the community. There will be food, live music, games, and a chance to know other Eugene organizations and folks in the community – and it’s all free!”
You don’t need to be an anarchist to participate. It’s a great way to help support and benefit from the community outside of traditional institutions. Let’s get to know our neighbors and help each other get through these times!
The hOurWorld Time Bank of Eugene
“A time bank is a network of individual, organizational, and business 'members' who provide services, track and bank their hours, and then spend those hours to get their own needs met. There is no barter or exchange; one member does a friendly, neighborly favor for another and records the time they spent doing so. Members share their talents and services, record their hours, then 'spend' them later on services they want. Everyone's hours are treated as equal in value.”
When signing up for the Time Bank, you will choose from a long list of services/offers you can provide to the community. There’s an “Offers” section where you might see people offering to teach you how to play the ukulele, help you with bike repair, show you how to recycle properly, drive you to and from places, teach you how to parallel park, help you with gardening, and help you move large items. In the “Requests” section, you will see things that Time Bankers need.
This video gives you an overview of what you’ll see once you’re signed up.
Here’s a video on how to list an offer.
And this video shows you how to change your profile.
KEPW 97.3FM
“KEPW is a listener-supported, home-grown, community radio station for voices left unheard. Click here to enjoy a slideshow of our community at work to provide Eugene, Springfield, and the worldwide web with this vital independent source of media.
Everyone is invited! Please click here to volunteer. You can also email us or attend our monthly Welcoming Committee meeting and Potluck. See the calendar for the next one.”
