Joshua Potash on Mutual Aid

Cocktails & Capitalism

What is mutual aid? Joshua Potash helps me answer this question in an episode that connects the dots between mutual aid, capitalism and policing. We examine the anarchist origins of the term before we discuss how the practice of mutual aid can help us start to build a world outside of capitalism.

Joshua Potash is an anticapitalist abolitionist who helped to found WSP Mutual Aid – a group that provides food, tenets, sweep defense, and other support for folks experiencing houselessness. He also works for Slow Factory, an institute that uses science, education, and regenerative design to advance climate justice and social equity. I am constantly sharing Joshua’s brilliant takes from Twitter, where he uses his following to shine light on issues like policing, activism, and the rise of fascism.

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Reading list:

Solidarity Not Charity, Dean Spade
Mutual Aid, Dean Spade
Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
Jackson Rising
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Mutual Lemon-Aid
(spirit -free mocktail)

Makes one drink

1 Large lemon

60 ml Juice from the one lemon

40 ml Sugar

250 ml Water

small pinch of salt

Optional: 1 cardamom pod

Makes approximately 2 liters of Lemonade

6 Large lemons

350 ml Juice from the 6 lemons

250 ml Sugar

1.5 L Water

large pinch of salt

Optional: 5 cardamom pods
Peel lemons with a vegetable peeler, getting as

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