Street Safety hosts resources for protesters.

Before cops or situations isolate you, get a buddy.

• Choose a buddy with PEARL interview.
• Stay safe in a crowd with 360 buddy vision (image).
• Watch for dangers, opportunities, and exits.

If anxiety, fear, or excitement might dissociate you, ground.

• Check in with HALTS.
• Observe and plan your next move.
• Debrief with low and high point.

When they try to take your power or voice, do something.

• Protect someone with a safety circle (image).
• Resist tear gas and pepperspray.
• Don't let weather stop the action.
• Do jail support.
• Find help.

Prepare to manage risks.

• Stay safe in the streets.
• Dress for conditions. Bring water and snacks.
• Understand police use of force guidelines.
• Practice security culture.
• Pack a small first aid kit and get a useful first aid guide.

Care for injuries.

• Care for blunt trauma and head injury.
• Care for cuts, knife injuries, and gunshot wounds.
• Assess handcuff and taser injuries.
• Care for people in extreme distress.
• How medical providers can help protesters.

Work together.

• View online trainings.
• Refer people to local resources.
• Organize a jail support, food not bombs, or first aid team.
• Prevent superspreader events and respiratory disease deaths.
• Develop your own analysis and do popular education.

Links to other websites:

• Tips for protesters flyer from Can't Touch This NYC.
• Outline for 3-hour protester health and safety training from Ferguson uprising.
• Lisa Fithian's protest planning resources.
• Safety guide from Quebec medics. Safety images from Seattle medics. Health and safety on medic wiki.
• Twitter thread and images for recognizing police crowd-control weaponry.
• Eye flush video and image pinned to the top of NYCAM's fb. Eye flush on medic wiki.
• Tear gas flyer from Chicago Action Medical.
• Basic ASL to help a protester video; chemical weapons at protests (English/Spanish) from Boston Digital Streetmedics.

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