During my time trying to organize a mutual aid group here locally, I become very much aware that most people in my area are not equipped with this kind of knowledge. It’s time to get equipped to handle an economic downturn or any other nonsense that gets thrown at us…So I have a lot to say about alternatives that are grounded in actual historic precedent, but I don’t want to limit myself. Frankly I have a lot of the sort of knowledge that makes one resilient. That happens when you grow up in a dilapidated farmhouse with a woodstove as your only heat and lived a lot of your adult life under the poverty line. I survived it once and I will survive it again and I am inviting you to learn how to survive it, too.