Mutual Aid LA Network Dispatch

About Mutual Aid LA Network Dispatch

The Mutual Aid LA Network Dispatch is a roundup of ways to contribute to Los Angeles mutual aid efforts in the form of time, money and/or items as well as what resources each group offers.

Publisher

Mutual Aid LA Network

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Jun 2023

Latest episode

1 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Jun 2026

   2026- Spring Cleaning Special

   This is an audio version of our March Spring Cleaning Edition, so visit dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/36-march/ to read that month’s Dispatch with clickable links. Suggested Organizations: Aetna Street Solidarity - www.instagram.com/aetnastreetsolidarity The People’s Free Boutique by Quirk - www.instagram.com/thepeoplesfreeboutique Project Ropa - www.instagram.com/projectropa Trans Wellness Center LA - https://mytranswellness.org/ Chrysalis - https://www.changelives.org/ Art Time Presents - www.instagram.com/arttimepresents Remainders Creative Reuse - https://remainderspas.org Suay Sew Shop - suayla.com/pages/community-dye-bath Echo Park Repair Fair - www.instagram.com/echoparkrepairfair LA County Library Fixit Clinic - https://visit.lacountylibrary.org/event/15883798 LA County Hazardous Household Waste and E-Waste - https://cleanla.lacounty.gov/hhw/electronic-waste/ | tiny.cc/SAFECenters Music Attributions: Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. Maude by Colorcast is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. "Late Night Radio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

2. 

   4 May 2026

   37: May 2026 - May Day Special

   Visit https://mutualaidla.org/projects/dispatch/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links. "A General Inquiry" Substack - tiny.cc/GeneralInquiry Suggested Organizations: Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU) - https://www.instagram.com/latenants/ All Power Books - https://www.instagram.com/allpowerbooks/ United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) - https://utla.net/ National Day Laborers Organizing Network - tinyurl.com/ndlon-volunteer. LA Public Defenders Union - https://www.instagram.com/lapubdefunion/ CLEAN Carwash Worker Center - https://www.instagram.com/carwasherxs/ Debt Collective - www.debtcollective.org United Farm Workers - www.ufwfoundation.org General Strike US - www.generalstrikeus.com Strippers United - www.strippersunited.org Echo Park Mutual Aid - https://www.instagram.com/e_p_m_a_/ Aetna Street Solidarity - https://www.instagram.com/aetnastreetsolidarity/ Food for Comrades - www.foodforcomrades.org LA Food Not Bombs - https://www.instagram.com/lafnb/ Music Attributions: "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. "Too Cool" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License "Late Night Radio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sound Attribution: Mayday protest speech and audio: CBS News Footage - www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hW31RZBcfY

3. 

   16 Feb 2026

   35: February 2026 - Solo DIY Actions

   Visit http://tiny.cc/MALANDispatch35 to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links. Suggested Organizations: - MALAN Hygiene Hello Kit Building - https://mutualaidla.org/projects/hygiene-hello/ - LA County Library's Books for Jails program - https://lacountylibrary.org/books-for-jails/ - 311 Bulk Item Pick Up - https://cd1.lacity.gov/report-issue - LA Community Fridges - https://www.lacommunityfridges.com/ - Power Blossoms Birth Day Cards - https://www.powerblossoms.org/write-a-birthday-card - MaskBlocLA: Masks for Your Community - https://www.instagram.com/maskblocla/ - National Lawyers Guild's Legal Observer Training - https://www.nlg.org/los-angeles/legal-observing-program/ - Community Self Defense LA - https://www.instagram.com/communityselfdefensecoalition/ - MALAN Produce in the Park - https://mutualaidla.org/projects/produce-in-the-park/ - MALAN's Poli-Ed Reading Group - https://mutualaidla.org/projects/reading-group/ Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - "Relaxing Piano Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License - Smooth As Silk by Steve Skinner - Maiden Voyage by William Pearson - Ohhh by Ketsa is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Impale the Sky by XTaKeRuX is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Sound Effect Attributions: Scratch Sample by templeofhades -- https://freesound.org/s/151822/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

4. 

   7 Jul 2025

   32: Summer 2025

   This episode of Mutual Aid LA Network Dispatch shares resources and legal information for immigrants, highlights poetry, and features various licensed music and sound attributions.

5. 

   24 Mar 2025

   31: Spring 2025

   Visit https://dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/31-Spring/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Featured Effort: Fire Poppy Project - https://www.instagram.com/firepoppyproject/ Listings Organizations: Mac Park Crew Gente Organizada Northeastern Neighborhood Outreach No Harm KTLA Water Drop LA All Power Books Greater Long Beach Mutual Aid Network Community Solidarity Project Altadena Communal Kitchen This Month’s Book Recommendation: “Parable of the Sower” by Octavia E. Butler Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - "Late Night Radio" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sound Attributions: - 20160414_room.with.fireplace.21.flac by dobroider

6. 

   11 Nov 2024

   29: November 2024

   Visit dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/29-november/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Free Tables Mentioned: East Hollywood: Hoover St & Marathon St, Los Angeles, CA 90029 Lincoln Heights: 3100 N Broadway, Lincoln Heights, CA 90031 Featured Effort: All Power Free Clinic - www.instagram.com/apfreeclinic/ Listings Organizations: The Lavender Collective, Mac Park Breakfast Crew, Grow Together Glendale, PowerBlossoms, Union de la 8 (LA Tenants Union) Hurricane Helene Mutual Aid Groups: WNC Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR) - https://www.instagram.com/_roar_wnc/ Firestorm Books - https://www.instagram.com/firestormcoop/ Pansy Collective - https://www.instagram.com/pansy.collective/ Asheville Survival Program - https://www.instagram.com/avlsurvival/ Mutual Aid Disaster Relief - https://www.instagram.com/mutualaiddisasterrelief/ First Aid Collective Knoxville (FACK) - https://www.instagram.com/firstaidcollectiveknox/ Tricities Mutual Aid - https://www.instagram.com/tricitiesmutualaid/ Food Not Bombs Tallahassee - https://www.instagram.com/fnb_tally/ MALAN Directory: tiny.cc/malan-directory This Month’s Book Recommendation: “The Future Is Disabled” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Future-Is-Disabled Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. Sound Attributions: CityStreet Summer 130620_01.flac by klankbeeld -- https://freesound.org/s/192205/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

7. 

   5 Sept 2024

   28: September 2024

   Visit buttondown.com/MutualAidLA/archive/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Book List: - “We Are Better Together” by Bill McKibben - “Composting for Community” by Michael Martinez - “Noodlephant” by Jacob Kramer - “Our Little Kitchen” by Jillian Tamaki - “Hey Wall: A Story of Art and Community” by Susan Verde - “The Circles All Around Us” by Brad Montague - “We're Better Together: A Book About Community” by Eileen Spinelli - “Abolition Is Love” by Syrus Marcus Ware - “Everything is Connected” by Jason Gruhl - “Last Stop On Market Street” by Matt De La Peña - “You Hold Me Up” by Monique Gray Smith - “Powwow Day” by Traci Sorell Featured Effort: MALAN Listings Directory - https://malan.softr.app/ Listings Organizations: Food for Comrades, Produce in the Park (MALAN), LA Community Fridges (LACF), Lincoln Heights Outreach Team This Month’s Book Recommendation: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)” by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - http://tiny.cc/EliteCapture Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - "Fuzzball Parade" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - "Divertimento K131" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ - "Groundwork" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sound Effect Attributions: - Scribbling On Paper by pogostickz -- https://freesound.org/s/742214/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

8. 

   5 Aug 2024

   27: August 2024

   Visit tinyurl.com/dispatch-27 to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Featured Effort: Water Drop LA - https://www.waterdropla.org/ Water Drop LA’s 4-Year Anniversary Celebration: http://givebutter.com/wdla4year Listings Organizations: SFV Mutual Aid, LA Street Care, LA Community Car Care, Nobody Fails at Scripps--Scripps College Mutual Aid Collective, 909 Mutual Aid, NoHarm This Month’s Book Recommendation: "The Fire Next Time” by James Baldwin Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - record noise by hifijohn -- https://freesound.org/s/245443/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

9. 

   5 Jun 2024

   26: June 2024

   Visit https://dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/26-june/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Additional Links: - “The Great Good Place” by Ray Oldenburg - https://greatgoodplace.org/ Featured Effort: - Los Angeles Abortion Support Collective (LAASC) - http://laabortionsupport.org/ Listings Organizations: - Food for Comrades - Hope Street Distro - Home-y Made Meals - Pasadena For All - Nuestra SELA - Operation Olive Branch - Every Day Action - Produce in the Park (MALAN) - Norfside Long Beach Outreach This Month’s Book Recommendation: - “Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times” by Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/joyful-militancy-bergman-montgomery Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.

10. 

    4 May 2024

    25: May 2024

    Visit tinyurl.com/dispatch-24 to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links to all organizations mentioned. Additional Links: Jail Support LA Phone Number: 424-388-1230 Private Security for Encampment Donations- givebutter.com/PalestineEncampments BDS Movement- tiny.cc/bdsmovement Boycat App- https://www.boycat.io/ eSim Donations- gazaesims.com/ Featured Effort: Community Loving - http://communityloving.org Listings Organizations: Jail Support LA, Insula Collective, Northeast Neighborhood Outreach (NENO), Los Angeles Abortion Support Collective, No Us Without You LA, Midnight Books, Bicycle Meals, Mutual Aid LA Network This Month’s Book Recommendation: “You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train” by Howard Zinn Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.

11. 

    3 Apr 2024

    24: April 2024

    Visit https://dispatch.mutualaidla.org/ to read this month’s Dispatch with clickable links. Additional Links: The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee: https://nwtrcc.org/ Project Olive Branch: https://tinyurl.com/ProjOlive Listings Organizations: Resilient Agency, Echo Park Mutual Aid, Pomona College Sustainability, Community Loving, Free Food Collective, 714MutualAid, Mutual Aid Action LA, LA Community Fridges (LACF) This Month’s Book Recommendation: "Status Anxiety" by Alain de Botton Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International License.

12. 

    5 Mar 2024

    23: March 2024

    Visit tinyurl.com/dispatch-23 for this month's Dispatch with clickable links. Listings Organizations: - Proper Hygiene Project - KTown for All - For the People LA - SWOPLA SWANS - J-TOWN Action and Solidarity, - MARS Collective, - Farm2Power, - Solidarity and Snacks Music Attributions: - Contemplation by Masteredit is licensed under a Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. - On the Side by Beat Mekanik is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License. - Dreams Twisted by Cosmic Winds by Aldous Ichnite is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.

13. 

    7 Jun 2023

    15: June 2023

    Visit https://dispatch.mutualaidla.org/archive/15-june/ to read this Dispatch. Links: Open Art Supply (OAS): https://www.mutualaidla.org/open-art-supply-project OAS Map: https://tiny.cc/oasmap OAS Wishlist: https://tiny.cc/oaswishlist Download our printer-friendly Donation Guide: https://tiny.cc/donationguide

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