{"id":211,"date":"2023-02-02T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mutualmorris.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:02:10","slug":"community-self-defense-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutualmorris.com\/community-self-defense-february-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Self-Defense – February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Nobody was prepared for the Covid pandemic, including us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though there was also an outbreak of greed, paranoia, racism, denialism, and wilful ignorance, we kept hope because we saw firsthand the natural human tendency to care and want to help shine through everywhere we looked. The love and support of hundreds of regular people like you are what allowed us to be able to help thousands of families across our county. And everything we were able to do came from trial and error, making it up as we went along and learning from what did and didn’t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are always more emergencies and crises ahead, especially with worsening economic systems, weakening safety nets, rising fascism, rapidly increasing climate change, and loss of habitats and biodiversity. We must be as prepared as possible to face each one and not wait until it’s too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Community Self-Defense working group has created a workshop on the basics of these ideas and we shared it with great success at the NJ Solidarity Network Conference in May of last year. We plan to hold this workshop on Zoom and in-person periodically and we will have many projects and learning opportunities throughout the year that you can participate in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n