The Social Solidarity Project (SSP) is a grassroots collective that seeks to empower communities through social initiatives like mutual aid, collective action, political education, and direct support programs. Our belief is that most people want to participate in their community; we seek to be the means by which for them to do so. Our work fundraising for Undue Medical Debt through a local concert series represents our debut initiative. Over time, we aspire to expand our scope to incorporate more community-based services, mutual aid networks, authoritarian resistance, and coalition building across the broader left movement.
We founded SSP as an explicitly leftist movement. Too many organizations, hoping to unify greater numbers, capitulate to capital interests, forsaking the very ecological, social, or economic goals they claim to champion. We believe this strategy alienates inspired, opinionated political participants hungry for action by compromising with the voices of those ideologically opposed to systemic change. We seek to present an alternative to this state of affairs, carrying forth a radical commitment to emancipation and empowerment through grassroots direct action, mutual aid, and cross-movement solidarity.
