{"id":303,"count":32,"description":"Mutual Aid is a volunteer-led initiative \/ project where groups of people in a particular area, or from a particular community join together to support one another, meeting vital community needs without the help of state institutions or NGOs. It is, by definition, a horizontal mode of organising, in which all individuals are equally powerful. Mutual Aid, in simpler words, is co-operation for the common good.\r\n\r\nMutual Aid \u2013 in all of its forms and varieties \u2013 is a universal practice, rather than a catch-all term, or definition. It is an evolutionary factor as old as life on Earth.\r\n\r\nThe articles below are about Mutual Aid practices in North and East Syria (<a href=\"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/regions\/rojava\/\"><b>Rojava<\/b><\/a> \/ West Kurdistan).\r\n\r\n---------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nRead more about the history and current practices of Mutual Aid around the world today at our sister project: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutualaid.coop\/\"><b>www.mutualaid.coop<\/b><\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/category\/mutual-aid-bakur\/\">Click here to read about <b>Mutual Aid in Bakur<\/b><\/a>\r\n","link":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/category\/mutual-aid\/mutual-aid-rojava\/","name":"Mutual Aid in Rojava","slug":"mutual-aid-rojava","taxonomy":"category","parent":302,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/302"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}