Resurfacing from hiatus not with a podcast (yet) but a resource that many may find useful:

https://riotmedicine.net/downloads

Please forward to whoever might be interested. Stay safe out there, friends.

#riotmedicine #medicine #firstaid #streetmedicine

juuuuuuust gonna drop this here.... for no particular reason at all

#StreetMedicine

https://riotmedicine.net/downloads#basic-first-aid-for-emergencies

We put together IFAKs for protests. Our group specializes in de-escalation training, environment awareness training, & life-saving street medicine awareness. One of our certified EMTs shares information about how to respond to med emergencies & get people to safety.

#streetmedicine #safety #protest

IFAKs are excellent for carrying on-the-go. You never know when there could be a medical emergency even outside of a protest environment. You never know when you could save someone's life.

#indivisible #protestsafety #protests #50501ga #april19th #riseup #defenddemocracy #georgia #Cherokee #cobb

The Black Flag Catalyst Revolt Guide – by The Black Flag Catalyst.

“The following resource is intended to be a guide for those who wish to carry out concerted political action and includes tactics for both militant and pacifistic direct action, organizing, creating assemblies, and even some introductory aspects of being a street medic. The goal of this guide is to compile the knowledge from the various insurrections across the planet and turn them into a single resource which can be given to anyone and to inform that person on their place in the broader schema.

For this reason, we will include both peaceful and non-peaceful tactics within this guide. If we are to learn from the successful movements of the past, we can see that all successful pressure has been the collusion of the peaceful and non-peaceful aspects of the movement, such that the peaceful party can lobby the state to concede, saying to them “now see? Wouldn’t you rather deal with me than them? Sit down and make some concessions to those suffering people.”

Meanwhile, the non-peaceful protesters escalate the aggression of their actions such as to put a clock on the state. Direct action should therefore not be seen as a chaotic by-product to be avoided. It should instead be seen as a necessity to extract outcomes for the movement. Ultimately, if the demands of the protests are not met, revolution should be the threat. In this way, we are to transform the state to our whims, not vice versa. And if it does not concede, we will have built the bodies of prefiguration that will be prepared to replace it..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bfc-revolt-guide

#AnarchistLibrary #Anarchy #Introductory #Organizing #Protest #HowTo #StreetMedicine

Excellent article from NYTimes detailing one of the earliest #StreetMedicine programs out of Boston and profiling the work of Dr. Jim O'Connell

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/magazine/boston-homeless-dr-jim-oconnell.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I'm not one for New Year's resolutions, but I do like the opportunity to reflect

My 2022 started in the midst of surge as a #StreetMedicine EMT

In spring, I got COVID & began the months-long healing process. I'm grateful & lucky to be at a point where I'm still figuring out my #LongCOVID but started a new research job at DGSOM & I'm exercising

This 2023, I'm hoping to write more, get back to salsa classes 💃, & to continue my advocacy around homelessness, harm reduction, & the Latinx community