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Conspire.to and hocl.love (opens in a new tab) are offered in the spirit of mutual aid. For us, this means:
- Solidarity. Help comes with no strings, forms or judgment about who deserves it.
- Reciprocity. Encouraging mutually beneficial exchange.
- Direct action. People meeting needs with whatever is available.
- Shared knowledge. What we learn gets passed on freely.
The practices are cheap, need no prescription, and work whether or not you have a home, insurance or a doctor nearby.
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People often ask us how to make hypochlorous acid (HOCl), a disinfectant gentler than bleach, so we made hocl.love (opens in a new tab) to cover how to make it, how strong it needs to be for each job, the evidence behind every claim, and how to use it safely.
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Books
- Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902). The classic text about the existential importance of cooperation. Free at Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab) and The Anarchist Library (opens in a new tab). The illustrated edition, Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution (opens in a new tab) (2021), has art by N.O. Bonzo and an introduction by David Graeber and Andrej Grubačić.
- Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) (2020). A short, practical guide to starting a group and keeping it going, from Verso (opens in a new tab), with free resources on Spade’s site (opens in a new tab).
Find or start a group
- Mutual Aid Hub (opens in a new tab) maps groups so you can find one near you.
- Big Door Brigade (opens in a new tab) has toolkits, videos and guides for getting started.
- Mutual Aid Disaster Relief (opens in a new tab) organizes grassroots help after disasters and trains people for the next one.