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Feed The People. 🍉🍎🌽🍏🍌
The fridge is open! (Just make sure it stays shut when not in use) The nearest address is: 1176 Abbey Lane, Dearborn, 48124. Look for the fence art and mural!
we are grateful to share that the Dearborn Community Fridge is OPEN! available 24/7 for anyone no questions asked. The closest address is 1176 Abbey Lane, Dearborn. Look for the mural and fence art!
For more information about how to support this project, please visit: linktr.ee/dbn.mutual.aid
This event has been postponed
17.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're sorry to say our launch party has been postponed due to predicted rain on Sunday. We'll reschedule for spring!
17.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Launch party October 19, 12-4pm
Join us for our opening celebration! Fun, community, care, and food. tinyurl.com/DAMANRSVP
30.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Are you looking at the world feeling angry? Stuck in a loop of hopelessness and despair? Do you want to take action against the state of the world and help build a better one? Are you looking for a place to work toward something you believe in? Join DAMAN - An anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-racist community led and centered collective. We're working to create and sustain projects to support our community. Community spaces, survival support, harm reduction, education, and skill building. We're all we have.
Are you looking at the world feeling angry? Stuck in a loop of hopelessness and despair? Do you want to take action against the state of the world and help build a better one? Are you looking for a place to work toward something you believe in? Join DAMAN
linktr.ee/dbn.mutual.aid
A partially completed mural on the side of a building with a ladder and paint supplies in front of it
A chain link fence with vibrant colorful designs being created in it
A collection of cement pavers that have been customized with colorful stones and decoration
Make art for arts sake 🖌️
11.08.2025 16:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Trays of food with multi compartments being covered by clear coverings
Several covered containers of food with labels indicating their contents and ingredients
Partially filled containers of food
We spent the afternoon making food for our neighbors! 16 meals of homemade vegan gnocchi with garden fresh tomato and basil sauce, garden fresh roast carrots and zucchini. Come cook with us next month! bit.ly/DAMANVol
03.08.2025 20:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A raised garden bed on a sunny day with robust and healthy plants
A Tabasco pepper plant with multiple peppers at various stages of ripeness
The gardens are growing! As we establish the space, we look forward to adding the harvest to the fridge!
21.07.2025 17:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Art build August 10, 2025 9am. Beautify the community, pantry and garden! Make your own cement, Mosaic pavers and contribute to communal art projects. Location in Dearborn RSVP by August 7th for address: dbn.mutual.aid@gmail.com
Make art and build community at the community fridge!
20.07.2025 00:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Juneteenth is an opportunity to contemplate and learn from the resilience and ingenuity of enslaved people who formed rich environmental relations.
19.06.2025 14:28 — 👍 72 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 1
Outreach and planting day postponed to 6/29 9am-1pm help plant the new community garden and reach out to our neighbors to invite them to part of the pantry and garden. Location in Dearborn. RSVP by June 27th for address dbn.mutual.aid@gmail.com
This Sunday will have a heat index of over 110 F. It wouldn't be safe or responsible for us to host. The event will be postponed to the 29th, 9am-1pm. We expect in the future, the ongoing climate catastrophe will continue to force us to reschedule and are grateful for your understanding 💖
19.06.2025 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is THE thing to do about the data center!! See you Tuesday!
14.06.2025 23:15 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Outreach and planting day June 22, 2025 9am-1pm. Help plant the new community garden and reach out to our neighbors to invite them to be part of the pantry and garden. Location in Dearborn RSVP by June 20 for address.
Join us Next weekend (6/22) for our third workday
This event is family friendly, but be prepared to get dirty! Work gloves and tools provided, dress for working outside. Lunch and snacks will be served.
6/22, 9am-2pm
Location in West Dearborn (RSVP by 6/20 to dbn.mutual.aid@gmail.com for address)
Join us for our upcoming work day! 5/25, 9am-1pm
Email dbn.mutual.aid@gmail.com for address and to rsvp
Yesterday we cooked up 20+ meals of black beans and sweet potato hash, garlicy green beans, and vegan oatmeal raisin cookies to share with our neighbors! Build with us: linktr.ee/dbn.mutual.aid
11.05.2025 13:43 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Two gloved hands reach for uprooted tulips to plant them in nearby terracotta pots
Three people work to clear ground that has been overgrown by aggressive weeds
A person digs a hole in overgrown land while two other people work alongside them. A lens flare forms a rainbow in the frame.
Today we shared our vision for the community space while we prepped the land for the garden beds and structures it will soon hold 💞
20.04.2025 20:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's deescalation training day! See you* at noon!
(*If you registered in advance)
Food packaging containers with chili, baked potatoes, corn bread, and cookies
Hands writing an ingredients list to include with packaged meals
Attaching ingredients lists to packaged meals
We keep us fed. Community members came together to cook vegan chili, corn bread, baked potatoes, and cookies. Connect up with our community cooks and other mutual aid efforts in and around Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, and Detroit
bit.ly/DAMANVol
Four white note cards on a black background under the header "mutual aid is". Harm reduction, recognizing that everyone deserves to ask for & receive help (that includes you!), understanding shared humanity, safety through caring for each other
Four yellow note cards on a black background under the header "mutual aid is not". Class reductive, transactional, individualistic, judgemental
at our March core team meeting, we asked each other "what is mutual aid" and "what isn't mutual aid". here are some of our responses.
16.03.2025 20:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A stapler on top of a stack of flyers that read "we keep us safe. Dearborn Area community & de-escalation training"
Coming soon to a telephone pole near you! Join us for in person community safety and de-escalation training. April 12, Dearborn Heights. RSVP by 4/1 for address bit.ly/DAMASafety
10.03.2025 01:02 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
