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Mutual aid organizations step up when nonprofits no longer can

San Diegan Mariel Horner loves to help people.

She works as a mental health professional, organizes for police accountability and participated in regular protests outside the Otay Mesa detention facility and raised money to contribute to the commissary costs of people held there.

“I was one of the original five people who were sending money directly to detainees and communicating with them over the phone … and that was a very interesting experience,” she said.

But she saw more people in need everywhere she looked.

“I started thinking in the past six months, what can we do to bring joy, community and a really artful form of protest?”

Read the rest at Times of San Diego

 

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