DISCLAIMER: Watching this video is a first step to prepare those who are clinical professionals to translate skills onto the streets to assist street medics and to provide primary support in places where there are no street medics. This training was made in response to calls from Brown and Black community in the Bay Area to get help from violence from police during current protests. It is by no means complete or perfect. The work of street medics has a deep lineage in anti-oppressive struggles. Western medicine has a deep lineage of oppression for Black, Brown, Indigenous and Poor people. Please accept this training as a first step to a long process of transforming your own clinical work to be anti-racist and anti-oppressive, by giving you some basic tools and knowledge to get out and support the mobilization into the streets.
We focused on the preparing clinicians for key differences between a static clinical setting and a dynamic street setting, between a setting where you are simply worried about a patient to one where you will be worried about a patient and your own safety because of a threat of violence. We will discuss our capacity to provide further training to dive further into the critical issues of consent, anti-oppression work and decolonizing medicine. Stay humble.
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Music by Rebel Diaz--Which Side Are You On and Rupa & the April Fishes--Yelamu
Frontline Street Medic Noah Morris and UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine Rupa Marya will host a bridge training for medical professionals to be effective at responding to medical needs of people advocating for health and justice in the streets.
Learn about street preparedness and situational awareness in order to be better prepared to serve your community. We will cover the basics of tools and skills needed as well as review how to effectively respond to the most encountered clinical scenarios.
Noah and Rupa served together at Standing Rock, where they coordinated medical response to Lakota/Dakota/Nakota nations standing for their right to clean and healthy water. Noah comes with over 15+ years of street medic experience and community medicine in the wake of Katrina. Rupa comes with 15+ translational experience in how to apply medical professional training into direct action support for social movements.
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To directly support the work of frontline medic, Noah:
www.paypal.me/noahthemedic
To directly support the work of the Do No Harm Coalition:
www.paypal.me/donoharmcoalition
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MORE RESOURCES:
Books:
Where There Are No Doctors - A book for Community Health Workers
Ditch Medicine - an overview of field medicine
Riot Medicine - An overview of street medicine in protests
Web Sites:
nearly 500 page text recently created.
Eye Washing Technique
- Street medic info clearing house
- herbal protocols
- An orientation for medical providers working with the movement.
- Medicine for All Seeking Herbal Healing Clinic Collective
- link to a zine
- still up website of the former Boston Area Liberation Medics
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