COVID-19 Efforts

Solidarity not Charity!

Mutual Aid projects are a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions not just through symbolic acts or putting pressure on the representatives but building new social relations that are survivable to combatting the systems of capitalism and white supremacy.

Listen to learn more about the Covid-19 impact in Metcalfe Park and our community-led solutions.

The Covid-19 pandemic was a devastating blow to the residents of Metcalfe Park. The systems in America, the State of Wisconsin and Milwaukee fail Black people daily and we know that Metcalfe Park is over 87% Black. As a result, the systems in place were not supporting the things Metcalfe Park needed before and during the pandemic. We the community are the experts of are needs and what we envision for our neighborhood. We believe that our form of Mutual Aid is an act of transformative *justice that is a liberatory approach to combatting structural violence.

*Transformative Justice seeks to provide people who experience violence with immediate safety, long-term healing, and reparations while holding people who commit violence accountable their community.

The third round of free COVID-19 at home test kits are now available. Households can now order eight more free at-home coronavirus tests-order by visiting this link: covid.gov/tests.

On May 19, 2022, Milwaukee County moved into the CDC’s “high” level of #COVID19 community spread. In accordance with the CDC’s recommendations, the Milwaukee Health Department issues a mask advisory for the city of Milwaukee. All individuals, regardless of vaccination status or past COVID-19 infection, should always wear a mask when indoors and in a public setting. This advisory applies to all individuals in Milwaukee over the age of two years who can medically tolerate wearing a mask. Read more : milwaukee.gov/MaskAdvisory5.20.22