About Us
What is RI Mask Bloc?
We are a mutual aid group of disabled people & comrades living in so-called Rhode Island organizing to provide free high-quality high-filtration masks and rapid tests, as well as education about the ongoing and ever-evolving COVID pandemic, and how we can keep each other as safe as possible.
In the ongoing COVID pandemic, we have seen mass abandonment from the state and from the powers of capitalism. We are experiencing a mass disabling event, and the government has proclaimed it over. Meanwhile, it kills thousands of people in the United States every month.
Mutual aid is a deeply political act. We are a group of abolitionists, anti-Zionists, and people who demand that we divest from the state to meet our needs. The American empire is incompatible with care, and so we must care for each other. As such, we especially encourage organizers of rallies and actions to contact us to get free masks for all participants.