Summary(1:53) Creating a schedule -- (2:35) Moved to Bed-Stuy in 2016 -- (3:00) Worked in local restaurants -- (3:40) Learned of Bed-Stuy Strong mutual aid group from flyer in store window -- (4:38) Assembling resources for restaurant workers, including those undocumented -- (5:30) Managing group’s community fund -- (6:30) Neighborhood changes: eerie quiet -- (7:55) Work in mutual aid -- (8:50) Old Bed-Stuy vs. New Bed-Stuy -- (10:22) Gentrification -- (11:53) Displacement, also new residents involved in community -- (13:00) Neighborhood poverty exacerbated by epidemic. Mutual aid groups can respond more nimbly than government -- (15:10) Worry about sustainability of mutual aid -- (17:15) Worry about continuing need, a second wave of the epidemic – (18:12) Need for political action -- (19:35) Mutual aid groups and politics -- (21:13) Epidemic as a politicizing event.
NoteAudio interview conducted on May 9, 2020, by Zoe Grueskin. Collected for the Covid-19 Oral History Project through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
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TitleOral history interview with Hadass Wade on 2020 May 9.