Freedom Street Health

Founded in 2020 during the Minneapolis Uprising, Freedom Street Health is a community health and medic organization devoted to providing a high standard of medical care informed by revolutionary politics. We are explicitly anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and anti-fascist, and recognize that it is our duty to dismantle racism, misogyny, classism, and ableism as it exists in the US healthcare system. What are some of the ways we live out our mission? As EMTs, nurses, doctors, and healthcare professionals, we provide medical support by highly trained professionals at protests and political actions. Freedom Street Health offers a variety of classes like CPR, Stop the Bleed, Protest Safety, and Overdose Reversal, teaching folks the skills they need to care for their communities. Through our harm reduction initiatives, we pack and distribute Wound Care Kits to syringe service providers and people who use drugs to help them prevent infections and complications. In addition to our wound care kits, we distribute period kits, dental hygiene kits, and high-quality seasonal clothing to protect against the elements. While our mission stays the same, we are always evolving to meet the needs of the community. Community medicine is community defense.

Mission Statement:
Freedom Street Health believes that all community members should feel empowered
and informed to care for themselves and their comrades, from every day to every
action. Care is something communities practice daily, from prevention and harm
reduction practices to crisis response. FSH exists to share supplies, resources, and
knowledge with communities, democratizing information and making care not just
accessible but available. We are guided by principles of collective care: we are
responsible for encouraging the well-being of everyone in our community, including
ourselves. Wellness should exist outside the market and cannot be captured by
capitalism; we support each other emotionally and practically during crises. We believe
that an injury to one is an injury to all.