This article discuss the potentials of the solidarity networks formed by residents of peripheral neighborhoods in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. These potentials will be analyzed in terms of collective mobilization, elaboration of public issues, and strengthening of community bonds. The paper highlights the Covid-19 pandemic s unequal impact and its political, economic, and social consequences to urban peripheries dwellers, both from quantitative data and concerning the perception of communitarian leaders. In pointing out the emergence of numerous initiatives of mutual support among peripheral residents, it is argued that they can serve as a basis for a sociability opposed to the utilitarian individualism perspective that sustains the discourse and political practices emanating from the Bolsonaro government. The research is based on secondary sources data, interviews and testimonies collected by the author and members of the Solidarity Research Network throughout 2020.