community Whitney Hu Ends Campaign for City Council District 38, Will Focus on Mutual Aid Whitney Hu at South Brooklyn Mutual Aid – Brooklyn Army Terminal – 11/28/20There is no typical week for South Brooklyn Mutual Aid [https://southbkmutualaid.com/] (SBKMA) founder Whitney Hu, but every week is chock full. Amid coordinating projects as diverse as a free toy store and a house cleaners’ collective,
Central Brooklyn Eight Months Into the Pandemic, Brooklyn Mutual Aid Groups Widen Focus Bed-Stuy Strong volunteer Natalia Paez has been organizing neighborhood clean-ups since August. Photo by Zoe Grueskin/BklynerAs the coronavirus spread through New York this spring, shuttering schools and businesses, mutual aid groups of “neighbors helping neighbors” sprang up [/kensington-windsor-terrace-mutual-aid/] around the city [/solidarity-not-charity-flatbush-united-mutual-aid/]. More than eight months later, many mutual