Mental Health Resources
Resources to help you manage emotional distress now, stay out of the hospital, and get the care you need.
Peer Support -
Peer Support -
I’m currently offering a limited number of free peer-support sessions every week to anyone currently involved in social organizing, those directly impacted war, and to psych workers who are working in hospitals/community clinics. Contact me if interested.
Additional Peer Support Resources:
Wildflower Alliance: Online and phone support and support groups
Project LETS: Peer support for liberated healing
Beyond Coping: Transforming Your Circumstances
Work
The regime of enforced work for others, in which workers do not own or have say in their work, is one of the major drivers of emotional suffering today. What are ways out of this?
Debt
Housing
Housing is another area of our lives that should be a universal right but is not, and drives our emotional suffering and precarity. What can we do?
“Debt is a tie that binds the 99%. With stagnant wages, systemic unemployment, and public service cuts, we are forced to go into debt for the basic things in life — and thus surrender our futures to the banks. Debt is major source of profit and power for Wall Street that works to keep us isolated, ashamed, and afraid. Using direct action, research, education, and the arts, we are coming together to challenge this illegitimate system while imagining and creating alternatives. We want an economy in which our debts are to our friends, families, and communities — and not to the 1%.”
- Strike Debt (2012).
Learn more about debt and your options in the Debt Resistors Operations Manual.
Join or get involved with the Debt Collective.
Mutual Aid
Mutual aid is a way for people to support each other's survival needs in times of crisis. Mutual aid is a radical act that involves caring for the most vulnerable, pooling resources, and choosing to help others. Mutual aid is also a long-standing tradition in communities that have been historically mistreated.
Dean Spade's book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) offers tools for organizing and building sustainable mutual aid networks. The book is written for both those new to activism and those who have been involved in social movements for a long time.
Get involve with New York Mutual Aid projects.