The
Journal

The phrase gets thrown around in leftist circles, but here’s what it actually means to build it in a neighborhood that’s been abandoned by every institution that was supposed to serve it.

Our seventh intake week brought 34 new community members and surfaced three resource gaps we hadn’t anticipated. Here’s the full debrief and what we’re doing about it.

The Uruguayan coalition model offers a blueprint that’s being actively ignored by the American left. What can we take, what must we adapt, and what should we leave behind?

The winter intake cycle is closed. 34 new community members joined the collective. Spring intake opens March 22. Details on location and logistics inside.

Every institution serves someone’s interests. The question is never whether an institution is political — it always is. The question is whose politics it embeds.

Twenty-two housing needs came through intake in November. Twelve were resolved through the network. Ten remain open. This report documents what we know about the shortfall and what we’re building to address it.

Graeber’s account of debt as a moral technology has direct implications for how we think about mutual aid. If debt creates hierarchy, then gift — unconditional giving — is its structural opposite.

There is a kind of politics that only happens in the body, in person, in space shared with others. This essay is about why presence — physical, sustained, consistent — is not a tactic but a practice.