we get more when we demand more

mad mapping from the Icarus Project, and you can find more information in the resource list at the end of this book.)

Mutual aid projects expose the reality that people do not have what they need and propose that we can address this injustice together.

we have to shed the capitalist propaganda that tells us people are naturally greedy, and that without police keeping us in our places we would all hoard and harm.

Charity makes rich people and corporations look generous while upholding and legitimizing the systems that concentrate wealth.

Nonprofitization was designed to demobilize us, legitimizing unjust systems and hiding the reality that real change comes from movements made of millions of ordinary people, not small groups of paid professionals.

Here are five practices that set up efficient, effective consensus decision-making: 1. Creating Teams 2. Creating a Decision-Making Chart 3. Practicing Proposal-Making 4. Practicing Meeting Facilitation 5. Welcoming New People

we should be working toward locally controlled, participatory, transparent structures to replace our crumbling and harmful infrastructure.

The charity model encourages us to feel good about ourselves by “giving back.”