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A quick post to say that our feature-length documentary film produced as part of the recent AHRC-funded research project on mutual aid in the pandemic is now available for FREE online.

Entitled ‘From Below’, and directed by the brilliant Matthias Kispert, the film speaks of how people and volunteers mobilised during the pandemic lockdowns to help the most vulnerable in their communities.

It is a series of interviews in which people talk openly and honestly of the how they initially organised, the co-operation that went on, their mental health struggles, and how it it all fits in with the wider politics of austerity and the cost-of-living crisis. I’m extremely proud of this film, and there are still a few screenings of it happening around the country; I update the list here. Please get in touch if you would like to screen it with your community, place of work, faith group, school or university as I’m keen for it to be seen by as many activists, organisers and mutual aid groups as possible. It may resonate with you, but it may also challenge you as well; but it certainly packs an emotional punch and hopefully, give us the impetus we need to help in the fight against the rampant injustice we are seeing across this county.