Street Safety hosts resources for protesters.

Live trainings

• Sign-ups for live trainings are sometimes offered on NYC Action Medics fb page.

Recorded trainings

Protest health and safety

• Protest health and safety training 6/4/20 (on facebook) by Denver Action Medical Network.
• Protest health and safety training with ASL interpreter 6/2/20 (on youtube) by Boston Medics. Handouts. Donation link.
• Teach your own by modifying this outline for a three hour health and safety training (pdf version). Some material from it is used in video trainings above.

Training for medical professionals interested in protest first aid

• Do No Harm Coalition--Street Medic Bridge Training for Medical Professionals 6/4/20 (on youtube) by Appalachian Medical Solidarity streetmedic Noah Morris and UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine Rupa Marya.
  • This training includes care for riot control agent exposure and environmental awareness in civil unrest. It is not adequate as a standalone bridge. Talk to your local street medics about supplementing it and challenging parts of it. Consider the variety of ways how medical providers can help protesters.

Mutual aid

• Mutual Aid and Organizing 5/5/20 (on youtube): Sohnie Black and Ed Whitfield of Fund for Democratic Communities link emergency relief efforts to longer term cooperative food security objectives.
• "Mutual Aid" is a People's Movement 4/22/20 (on youtube): workshop with Rachel Gilmer, Helen Peña, and Dr. Armen Henderson (Dream Defenders), Amika Tendaji (Ujimaa Medics), Mariame Kaba (Project NIA), and Dean Spade (Seattle University School of Law).
  • Topics: what "mutual aid" is and how it is different from charity, philanthropy, and state social services; how mutual aid is part of current and historical freedom, liberation, and self-determination struggles of different peoples; and how mutual aid efforts are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
• Health Autonomy Beyond the Pandemic 8/17/20 (on youtube): members of Knoxville Community Apothecary, Ujimaa Medics, and Community Pharmacy discuss health-centered mutual aid projects.

Note on first aid and emergency training

Think about what you're training for. The following links might help.

• First aid team.
• In all seriousness: first aid (offsite link) by Anne Amnesia.

Source

Link curation by A. Grace Keller. Used with permission. CC BY-SA.