‘We will do it ourselves, because the government won’t do it for us.
But we must do it together, because we are stronger as a collective than we are as individuals.’
Elise Imray Papineau compares the mutual aid responses to the Covid 19 pandemic in Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines, arguing that the proliferation and consistency of mutual aid initiatives is affected not only by need, but also by the reach of the state and the pervasiveness of political apathy.
Doing-It-Together: Mutual aid and grassroots activism in Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines