Mutual Aid Network
 

Our Mission:

Land Defense & Restoration.

Dyspatch is an international environmental movement support organization based in Washington, DC that serves as a catalyst for land defense and environmental restoration by carrying out direct and mutual aid, direct democracy, and regenerative land practices. 

Since 2015, Dyspatch has operated as a grassroots collective to provide resources to community-led campaigns to stop environmentally destructive practices and to build new ecological possibilities. Dyspatch is a nonprofit organization in the United States, it conducts its fundraising, program operations, governance, and decision making as a worker-owned cooperative.  

 
 

International

Between 2015 and 2020, Dyspatch supported land defenders in the US and Canada, but in the last few years the organization is taking its unique and direct approach to supporting grassroots environmental defenders and restoration in the Global South. Beginning with Mexico, Columbia, and the Philippines, we are working to bring mutual aid to environmental groups to protect and regenerate the land.

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Campaigns

Over the past nine years we have supported land defense campaigns across North America and internationally - working to stop environmentally and culturally destructive industries like mining, oil and gas, and clear cut logging. This means working to protect forest, prairie, mountain, river, and coastal land bases and the human-nonhuman relations that rely on them.

Click below to see a list of the campaigns we have been part of. 

"Dyspatch is part of a new generation of social movement-based autonomous organizations that are working to build a new world in the shell of the old" 

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Our Impact

 

Founding members of Dyspatch have decades of experience within environmental movements across North America and internationally, we know that many of the best solutions are already out there, as we have been part of them on the ground, but these solutions must be scaled-up, repeated, and amplified.  

 

2+

years developing our international impact

Environmental and land defenders in the global south face much higher risks in doing what they do. In our current phase, Dyspatch is working with local communities to ensure they can continue to do the important work of protecting their land base.

 

9+

years supporting environmental movements

Dyspatch has operated for over nine years providing direct support and mutual aid to land defense campaigns. Our network works to create new possibilities for protecting and restoring the environment and human communities on the ground.

 
 

15+

long-term campaigns supported to date

Dyspatch has provided committed and ongoing support to fifteen ongoing environmental campaigns while operating as an autonomous grassroots collective. Efforts to stop mining, oil and gas, destructive logging, among others.  

 
 

Our Team

Founding members of Dyspatch have decades of experience within environmental and social movements across North America and internationally, we know that many of the best solutions are already out there, as we have been part of them on the ground, but these solutions must be scaled-up, repeated, and amplified.  

 
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Become a Member!

At the core of what we do is a tight-knit network of ecologically-driven individuals and organizations that are committed to environmental movements and social change. Membership means we work for you to achieve mutual environmental goals. Click below to find out more.

 

Individuals

See below if you are an individual working on environmental and social issues and would like to be part of a movement-based network with support in: fundraising, research, strategy, connections.

Organizations

See below if you are an environmental organization and would like access to consultants that are uniquely movement-based, science and policy-oriented.

Donate

Contribute to our environmental movement support efforts financially or by donating other resources.