I think we have to think in terms of what happens if we can’t use the cell phone, we can’t communicate through social media, we can’t rely on there to be clean water in the pipes. We can’t rely on there to be food stocked at the grocery store.

What do we do? How do we organize ourselves for that moment? And I mean, I think that’s where Mutual Aid has to come into play. I think that we have to think very seriously about who we are physically connected to on a local level where we can physically share resources.

I don’t think it’s about accepting any kind of inevitability. We don’t want things to fall apart, right? We don’t want to end up living in a war zone where we have no clean water because that is absolutely a mass death situation. And there’s no amount of organizing or preparation we can do that can prevent that from being a mass death situation. So the goal is to have that resilient plan, that plan for resiliency there and to have those connections and community there as kind of like our base of operation, while we organize and resist and fight.

Bree Newsome Bass
Capitalism Has to Collapse