Mutual Aid: A Conversation With Rural Organizing And Resilience

On this episode of the Firestorm Community Sustainers Drive, I sit down with Whitney and Leslie from Rural Organizing And Resilience – otherwise known as ROAR, a project started in 2017 with a goal of increasing access to essential resources for all people and communities in rural Madison County, North Carolina. Throughout our conversation, we discuss how they got involved with the project, their organizing approach of mutual aid, how the context of Southern Appalachia influences their work, and how listeners can get involved in supporting what they do. We encourage listeners to actively engage with this strategic and critical conversation on the importance of relationship building in the midst of capitalist and climate catastrophe.