The Government Does Not Care

Dean Spade • Seattle University School of Law

May 8 @ 6pm • via Zoom (https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/99404313057)

The COVID pandemic and George Floyd/Breonna Taylor rebellion of 2020 brought new attention to the role of mutual aid work in surviving crises and organizing resistance. People started thousands of projects giving out food, rent money, and bail money, doing errands for each other, providing childcare, emotional support, transportation, and other essentials. Many people learned more about the histories of mutual aid in social movements as vectors of survival and mobilization. In this talk, Dean Spade will consider how moments of crisis and disaster expose how governments are designed to support and sustain wealth concentration, not care for the well-being of people living under them. This has significant implications for how we organize to survive ongoing disasters and crises, and how we mobilize to dismantle harmful systems like policing, immigration enforcement, and the resource extraction that is producing ecological crisis.

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