Coercive control works by making you afraid of the sanctions for resisting. So you freeze, isolate, and comply. The oldest answer to abuse is the same one every time: more people, giving each other back exactly what the abuser is trying to take away. The Daisy Chain is that answer, mapped. Picture your postal code as a daisy with 19 petals. Each one a campaign that pools resources, obstructs harm, or builds the world that comes after. You don't need every petal to begin, and you don't need permission. Find your ZIP, pick the one petal your energy is drawn to today, and start one flower. Then help the next ZIP start theirs. One flower at a time, the chain grows. Thesis, in three words: neighbor = antidote to fascism.
A coordinated, nonviolent pro-democracy framework: organize your neighborhood by postal code into overlapping campaigns ("petals"), then chain ZIP to ZIP until the network spans the country. The goal is mutual aid that keeps neighbors safe and fed outside an abusive system, processes to hold power accountable, and a shared vision for what comes after.
This tool is a digital front door to that framework. Enter your ZIP to begin; tap any petal to see what the campaign does and which Path Forward tools power it. You don't have to do everything, move where your energy takes you.
Two ways in. Plant / explore takes a ZIP and answers "who is organising near me": the petals, and the real groups within reach of that postal code. Network asks the question the other way round, for people who are already in something: name the organisation you belong to, and it ranks every other listed group by how near it sits to yours, same petal first, then same cluster, then same place. Centre on any result to walk outward from there. That second view is the chaining part, daisy to daisy.
Strictly nonviolent. Educational, not operational. The deepest version of this work happens off-screen, with the people on your street.
Every organisation here has to clear all six of these. If you're suggesting one, or wondering why something isn't listed, this is the standard.
| Criterion | What it means |
|---|---|
| Real & verifiable | The organisation independently exists, with a working public presence we can check. No invented groups, no aspirational placeholders, no listings we can't confirm are currently operating. |
| Openly joinable | An ordinary person can actually make contact and participate: volunteer, attend, request help, or join. Closed institutions and pure grantmakers don't belong here even when they do good work. |
| Locally reachable | It either serves a specific place, or it has a chapter directory / ZIP locator that lands you somewhere local. National orgs with no local doorway are a poor fit for a tool organised by postal code. |
| Nonviolent | No advocacy or facilitation of violence, harassment, or property destruction. This is non-negotiable and applies regardless of an organisation's aims. |
| Serves the welfare of living beings | Mutual aid, civil rights, labour, housing, immigration, environment, Indigenous sovereignty, democratic participation, community media. Work that materially helps people or the living world. |
| Not extractive | Not primarily a business selling to the people it claims to serve, not a front group, and not funded to manufacture the appearance of grassroots support. |
✓ Typically qualifies: mutual aid networks, tenant unions, legal aid and rapid-response networks, community land trusts, worker centres and union locals, food recovery and community fridges, harm reduction, environmental justice groups, Indigenous-led land and water organisations, tool libraries and timebanks, independent local journalism, voter access and civic participation orgs.
✗ Typically doesn't: political campaigns and candidate committees, for-profit services, closed foundations that only grant to other institutions, groups whose primary output is content rather than local activity, anything advocating violence, and organisations we can't independently verify.
Every US state and DC now has named state or local organisations, alongside the national networks that each have a chapter directory or ZIP locator resolving somewhere local. Puerto Rico is covered too. That means any US postal code returns organisations you can actually reach, not a generic list.
Depth is still uneven, and we say so on the page. California has sub-region and city-level tagging because that is where sourcing started, so a California ZIP narrows further than a Wyoming one. Most other states currently carry four to seven statewide or major-metro organisations plus the full national layer. The ring at the top of the page counts this live from the data rather than from a number we typed once.
A thin result for your area means we haven't sourced it yet, not that nothing exists near you. Small-town and county-level groups are the biggest remaining gap. If you know a group that meets the six criteria above, send it via the Signal link in the site's Contact menu.
Editorial opinion, protected speech. This page describes and links to real, independently operated mutual aid and organizing networks; it does not operate, direct, or coordinate any of them. Organizing your community and choosing where to direct mutual aid are protected First Amendment activity.
Sourcing. Every listed organization is real and independently verifiable. We do not fabricate campaigns or invent local groups that don't exist.
No account required, no data collected. If a listing is outdated, reach out via the Signal link in the site's Contact menu.