Shield Mutual nonviolently defends you in case of arrest or other government attack using proactive public relations, crowdsourced political pressure, new and old media, digital fundraising, legal aid and the force of truth. Get Protected
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Defending yourself against government aggression and private adversity is hard. You need a network of clever, tenacious and supportive peers to back you up. Shield Mutual gives you that. Get protected today.

Shield Mutual nonviolently defends you in case of arrest or other government attack using proactive public relations, crowdsourced political pressure, new and old media, digital fundraising, legal aid and the force of truth. Get Protected

The Shield Mutual Pay-it-Forward Society (PiFS) is a free, voluntary and experimental mutual aid platform. Joining is easy. Then you receive one or two emails per week with aid requests. File your own aid requests, too. Here’s how it works. Get & Give Aid

Shield Mutual defends you against aggression for a low monthly fee. We connect you to mutual aid networks and reach out to those fighting the state alone, all while building a collective bargaining power base for an orderly transition to a freer world. Explore the Shield

Shield Mutual is a solution in search of a need and frankly that need has either disappeared or never really existed. That’s the bottom line. Signups and participation in 2015 were nowhere near the levels I need to reach in order to give the business enough of my time to make it a success. I […]

The Agora Summit is a one-day event of up to fourteen 55-minute presentations of ideas, strategies and plans of action that will render the statist world obsolete by building voluntary institutions that simultaneously solve market problems and supplant failed statist modes of control. Anyone may give a presentation, no matter your age, ideology or geographic location. No travel costs are required. The event takes place online at Shield Mutual.com/agora Thursday, April 16, 2015.

Shield Mutual Evolution 4 is here and I am excited about it! Here are some of the new solutions we’re providing you, in addition to the old standby of paid defense memberships.
Coming Soon: Members-only forum, member websites and more.
When you are not permitted to speak, Shield Mutual is your voice, in your defense, to your networks and ours.
Shield Mutual defends you from government aggression using, not armed patrols, but crowdsourced political pressure, public relations, fundraising and more.
The Shield Mutual Pay-it-Forward Society (PiFS) is a free, voluntary and experimental mutual aid platform. Joining is easy and free.
We take your security seriously. Sign up anonymously. Communicate with us using encrypted email. Most of our infrastructure is offshore.
Getting the help you need requires visibility. We help you become more visible in your communities through consulting and training.
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Within a few hours, George Donnelly took it upon himself to get news of my predicament out to the world. It took almost no time for him to raise the funds to get me back home, and he even bought me a ticket out of an airport without the body scanners! I made it home safe.
- Meg McLain, activist
What makes this so revolutionary is that it’s proactive. Usually when peaceful people get thrown into cages the friends and family that sympathize with the victim’s plight only begin to organize their response after the arrest. Shield Mutual is not reactionary. It’s at the ready when the State strikes.
- Davi Barker, blogger and agorist
If I had to draw up a list of activists I’d like to have working for my release and publicizing my situation were I detained by state gangsters, Shield Mutual proprietor George Donnelly would show up somewhere near the top of that list.
- Thomas L. Knapp, writer and activist
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