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diff --git a/blunt_trauma.mdwn b/blunt_trauma.mdwn index f0f0a85..5cb9910 100644 --- a/blunt_trauma.mdwn +++ b/blunt_trauma.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ For legal purposes, document injuries with photographs or video, as soon as possible. -## First-aid +### First-aid * If wound is open, wash with water and soap. * Cover with clean, dry dressing (like a gauze pad). * Apply ice to reduce swelling. Wrap ice in cloth or use ice pack. Do not apply ice directly to skin. -## Call ambulance for +### Call ambulance for * Injuries to head, neck, or spine. * Prolonged vomiting. @@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ For legal purposes, document injuries with photographs or video, as soon as poss *Shock* is a sequence of organ failures when blood cannot get oxygen and nutrients to tissues. Shock can happen when a person has bled out a large quantity (half-liter or more) of blood. Fear and restlessness are usually the first signs of shock. -## Aftercare +### Aftercare * Pain and swelling may increase, and area of redness and bruising may expand for up to 3 days. * Apply ice as long as swollen. * Rest with injured arm or leg elevated. Use a compression wrap (ACE bandage). -## See doctor for +### See doctor for * Injuries to face (get checked for fractures). * Injuries that affect movement of a joint. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ For legal purposes, document injuries with photographs or video, as soon as poss * Foul odor from area. * Generalized chills or fever over 99.5F. -*The American Academy of Ophthalmology is asking doctors to document eye injuries from rubber bullets and tear gas. If you have a severe eye injury from a rubber bullet, tell your ophthalmologist the cause. The Academy wants to do something. Posts by media and public documentation help, but they need medical evidence.* +*American Academy of Ophthalmology doctors want to document eye injuries from rubber bullets and tear gas. If you have a severe eye injury from a rubber bullet, tell your ophthalmologist the cause. Posts and public documentation help, but we need medical evidence to restrain police.* ## Head Injury @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ If you have a head injury, see a doctor. * If the doctor says you are OK, go home. Return to action only after a full week of no symptoms. * Try not to injure head again; multiple head injuries can cause death. -## Aftercare, serious head injury +### Aftercare, serious head injury Go to the hospital. When you go home, a responsible person should stay with you to watch for serious symptoms. First 24 hours after injury are critical. @@ -50,9 +50,7 @@ Go to the hospital. When you go home, a responsible person should stay with you * The person watching you should wake you every 2 hours for the first 24 hours. See checklist below for signs he should look for when he wakes you. * The person watching you should wake you every 4 hours the second day and every 8 hours the third day. -## Checklist - -See doctor if the injured person: +### See doctor if injured person * Cannot be awakened. * Vomits.
Removed one article for insuficciently deep analysis; added update on Minneapolis defund police bill; added Biography section, because humanizing politics requires seeing people
diff --git a/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn b/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn index 9b67915..3dec750 100644 --- a/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn +++ b/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn @@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ Build your own analysis through reflection, critical thinking, and the conversat > “You gave $1,200 to people to survive on in March. What you thought was going to happen? You took summer youth [employment] away from the youth, what you thought was going to happen? They need jobs. Feed our babies and we wouldn’t have this problem.” > --[Brigette Brantle](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/13/bran-j13.html), *Minneapolis Public School teacher, fired for her views.* -* [Social class, capitalism and the murder of George Floyd](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/pers-j11.html) by Niles Niemuth. -* [What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?](https://www.truthdig.com/articles/black-panthers-think-black-lives-matter/) by Paul Street (important critique of BLM organization, not of the uprisings). -* [Reformist reforms vs.abolitionist steps](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59ead8f9692ebee25b72f17f/t/5b65cd58758d46d34254f22c/1533398363539/CR_NoCops_reform_vs_abolition_CRside.pdf) (pdf) by Critical Resistance. * [replacing police with social workers](https://web.archive.org/web/20200617164308/https://jessacrispin.substack.com/p/replacing-police-with-social-workers) by Jessa Crispin (written for the *Guardian* but canceled), who shows how social workers *already are* police. +* [What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?](https://www.truthdig.com/articles/black-panthers-think-black-lives-matter/) by Paul Street (critique of BLM organization, not the uprisings). +* [Reformist reforms vs.abolitionist steps](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59ead8f9692ebee25b72f17f/t/5b65cd58758d46d34254f22c/1533398363539/CR_NoCops_reform_vs_abolition_CRside.pdf) (pdf) by Critical Resistance. * [The Triumph of Black Lives Matter and Neoliberal Redemption](https://nonsite.org/editorial/the-triumph-of-black-lives-matter-and-neoliberal-redemption) by Cedric Johnson: > “Corporate giants like Walmart and Amazon widely condemned the killing of George Floyd and other policing excesses.... [Amazon CEO] Bezos also pledged $10 million in support of “social justice organizations”.... The leadership of Warner, Sony Music and Walmart each committed $100 million.... Only weeks before George Floyd’s killing, Amazon...faced mounting pressure from labor activists over their inadequate protections, low wages, lack of health benefits and other working conditions. Corporate anti-racism is the perfect egress from these labor conflicts. Black lives matter to the front office, as long as they don’t demand a living wage, personal protective equipment and quality health care. @@ -25,6 +24,7 @@ Build your own analysis through reflection, critical thinking, and the conversat **Possibilities** * [Minneapolis City Council Members Announce Intent To Disband The Police Department, Invest In Proven Community-Led Public Safety](https://theappeal.org/minneapolis-city-council-members-announce-intent-to-disband-the-police-department-invest-in-proven-community-led-public-safety/) by Jay Willis. +* [Why Voters Rejected Plans to Replace the Minneapolis Police Department – and What’s Next for Policing Reform](https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/11/why-voters-rejected-plans-to-replace-the-minneapolis-police-department-and-whats-next-for-policing-reform.html) by Michelle S. Phelps. * [Community Policing and the DOJ](http://wechargegenocide.org/community-policing-and-the-doj/) by We Charge Genocide takes a look at community engagement as counter-insurgency in Chicago. * [Public Health is a Strategy for Abolition](http://criticalresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/APHA_pamphlet_FINAL_Feb2019-1.pdf) (pdf) by Critical Resistance. * [#8toAbolition](https://www.8toabolition.com/) hopes to build toward a society without police or prisons. @@ -41,15 +41,22 @@ Build your own analysis through reflection, critical thinking, and the conversat > “George Bush had Rodney King. Under Bill Clinton it was Amadou Diallo shot 41 times, remembered in the Springsteen song American Skin (41 Shots). For George W. Bush, it was Sean Bell. Eric Garner was strangled by police during the Obama term, alongside the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.... After the police killing of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2015, Obama called the protesters “criminals”...[and his] Justice Department did not prosecute Eric Gardner’s [nor]...Michael Brown’s killer.” > -- [Peter Van Buren](https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/this-is-not-trumps-fault/), 24-year State Department veteran -* [Race, Class, Crisis: The Discourse of Racial Disparity and its Analytical Discontents](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1970445) by Adolph Reed. * [The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration](https://catalyst-journal.com/vol3/no3/the-economic-origins-of-mass-incarceration) by Clegg and Usmani: > “Numerically, mass incarceration has not been characterized by rising racial disparities in punishment, but rising class disparity. Most prisoners are not in prison for drug crimes, but for violent and property offenses, the incidence of which increased dramatically before incarceration did. And the punitive turn in criminal justice policy was not brought about by a layer of conniving elites, but was instead the result of uncoordinated initiatives by thousands of officials at the local and state levels.” +* [Race, Class, Crisis: The Discourse of Racial Disparity and its Analytical Discontents](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1970445) by Adolph Reed. * [Mass Incarceration: New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?](https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MassIncarcerationPaper.pdf) (pdf) by Nathaniel Lewis for the People's Policy Project: > Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, I analyze racial and class disparities in incarceration. My analysis shows that class status has a large and statistically significant effect on (1) whether or not men aged 24--32 years have ever been to jail or prison; (2) whether or not men are jailed after being arrested; (3) whether or not men have spent more than a month in jail or prison; and (4) whether or not men have spent more than a year in jail or prison. After controlling for class, I do not find race to be a statistically significant factor for the first three outcome categories, but I do find that race has a significant impact on whether or not a man has spent more than a year in prison or jail. +**Biography** + +* [George Floyd hoped moving to Minnesota would save him. What he faced here killed him](https://archive.md/itod9) by Maya Rayo. +* [Wrongful Termination: Chris Dorner’s Terrifyingly Banal Killing Spree](https://archive.md/gIUWa) by Mark Ames (a black police officer tried to stop abuses, faced violent harrassment, tried to kill his enemies, and was executed by being burned to death by a robot). +* [The End of Rage: A Black Panther in prison makes a reckoning: the story of Russell Maroon Shoatz](https://www.plough.com/en/topics/justice/social-justice/criminal-justice/the-end-of-rage) by Ashley Lucas (effects of the aftermath of armed struggle and state repression on a Black Liberation Army combatant and his families). + + **Wisdom from the '50s and '60s** * [Race, politics, and culture : critical essays on the radicalism of the 1960's](https://b-ok.cc/book/2068699/e06793) (pdf download link), edited by Adolph Reed.
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diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index b83a5cb..ad5995b 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Info lines (like 311) just answer questions. - **Alcoholics Anonymous** local info and online meetings at **[aa.org](https://www.aa.org/).** - Lexington Kentucky Bluegrass Intergroup hotline: 859-225-1212 - **Veteran Peer Support Warmline**: 1-877-927-8387 -- **[StrongHearts Native Helpline](https://strongheartshelpline.org/get-help)** is a domestic violence and dating violence helpline for Native Americans: 1-844-762-8483. +- **[StrongHearts Native Helpline](https://strongheartshelpline.org/get-help)** (domestic/dating violence helpline for Native Americans): 1-844-762-8483. - **Backline pregnancy options line** (pregnancy options counseling and assistance accessing abortion care): 1-888-493-0092 - **Non-emergency services** (food pantries, shelters, etc.): 311 - **SGR Hotline** (sex, gender, and relationship questions, including about pleasure, dysphoria, STIs, or abuse): 415-989-7374
added stronghearts helpline
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 4058cb1..b83a5cb 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -129,9 +129,10 @@ Info lines (like 311) just answer questions. - **Alcoholics Anonymous** local info and online meetings at **[aa.org](https://www.aa.org/).** - Lexington Kentucky Bluegrass Intergroup hotline: 859-225-1212 - **Veteran Peer Support Warmline**: 1-877-927-8387 +- **[StrongHearts Native Helpline](https://strongheartshelpline.org/get-help)** is a domestic violence and dating violence helpline for Native Americans: 1-844-762-8483. - **Backline pregnancy options line** (pregnancy options counseling and assistance accessing abortion care): 1-888-493-0092 - **Non-emergency services** (food pantries, shelters, etc.): 311 - **SGR Hotline** (sex, gender, and relationship questions, including about pleasure, dysphoria, STIs, or abuse): 415-989-7374 - **National LGBT Hotline** (for local resources): 1-888-843-4564 -There are currently no hotlines or warmlines specifically for black or indigenous people experiencing severe distress, but there should be. See warmline.org for information about how to start a warmline. +There are currently no hotlines or warmlines specifically for black people experiencing severe distress, but there should be. See warmline.org for information about how to start a warmline.
Fixed broken link
diff --git a/how_medical_providers_can_help_protesters.mdwn b/how_medical_providers_can_help_protesters.mdwn index bccac46..11f4002 100644 --- a/how_medical_providers_can_help_protesters.mdwn +++ b/how_medical_providers_can_help_protesters.mdwn @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Nurses and herbalists prove some of the best at intuitively understanding what i ## Generating records for lawsuits and criminal defense -Patients sometimes want police-inflicted injuries documented for legal purposes. Common injuries include almost visibly imperceptible wrist abrasions or bruising combined with [compression neuropathy of the superficial radial nerve](http://agk.sdf.org/lib/cse/cse0920.htm) caused by long custody in overtight handcuffs, or 30 cm wide contusions in lateral lumbar regions caused by blunt force trauma (usually from projectiles fired at fleeing protesters). Sites where requests for injury documentation are most common include at jail support (when support teams including medics, legal, and comfort maintain vigil outside holding facilities to receive released arrestees), in the action wellness/first aid space, and at housing sites. Street medics take [photographic and written evidence](http://www.midnightspecial.net/materials/shootingthewounded.html) of injuries and give these records to the patient. Reports written by anybody other than a medical provider are considered hearsay by judges, but usually a legal team can use them to build a case. +Patients sometimes want police-inflicted injuries documented for legal purposes. Common injuries include almost visibly imperceptible wrist abrasions or bruising combined with [compression neuropathy of the superficial radial nerve](http://agk.sdf.org/lib/cse/cse0920.html) caused by long custody in overtight handcuffs, or 30 cm wide contusions in lateral lumbar regions caused by blunt force trauma (usually from projectiles fired at fleeing protesters). Sites where requests for injury documentation are most common include at jail support (when support teams including medics, legal, and comfort maintain vigil outside holding facilities to receive released arrestees), in the action wellness/first aid space, and at housing sites. Street medics take [photographic and written evidence](http://www.midnightspecial.net/materials/shootingthewounded.html) of injuries and give these records to the patient. Reports written by anybody other than a medical provider are considered hearsay by judges, but usually a legal team can use them to build a case. Medical providers have the authority to create official medical records which can be used as legal documents in court. The authority to create legal documentation of injuries can be a great asset to patients. In the United States, medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy are granted this right in all states. The ability of nurse practitioners to produce official medical records with the authority of legal documents in court is governed differently by each state's advanced practice nursing or advanced nursing practice laws. When producing medical records for patients, be sure to provide your business card or other contact information along with the record, so the patient can easily contact you and call you as a witness in court. Be aware that if they do initiate a lawsuit, it may be several years before you are called.
Fixed broken links
diff --git a/how_medical_providers_can_help_protesters.mdwn b/how_medical_providers_can_help_protesters.mdwn index 29a6bfc..bccac46 100644 --- a/how_medical_providers_can_help_protesters.mdwn +++ b/how_medical_providers_can_help_protesters.mdwn @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ A few roles have a particularly good "fit" with providers who have not cross-tra ## Buddy -You can plunge right into the fire and work in the field at actions, housing, or jail support as the buddy of a street medic. Don’t cheat yourself by buddying up with another medical provider; find a street medic who is not a medical provider. Your exchange with her in the street will be worth it. When choosing your buddy, get to know her and ask her questions before making a commitment. Ask when and where she was trained as a street medic, and if it was a 20 hour training. If she can't tell you, or didn't attend a 20+ hour training, she isn't a street medic. Find another buddy. +You can plunge right into the fire and work in the field at actions, housing, or jail support as the buddy of a street medic. Don't cheat yourself by buddying up with another medical provider; find a street medic who is not a medical provider. Your exchange with her in the street will be worth it. When choosing your buddy, get to know her and ask her questions before making a commitment. Ask when and where she was trained as a street medic, and if it was a 20 hour training. If she can't tell you, or didn't attend a 20+ hour training, she isn't a street medic. Find another buddy. It is appropriate to ask a street medic for names and contact info of people she has worked with at past actions who can "vouch" for her as a medic. Feel free to ask, and to check in with those people and find out what they have to say about her. Ask her what actions she has worked at and what she thought of them. Ask what kind of risks she prefers to take at actions. Ask about her political philosophy. Ask if she is an herbalist. Ask if she holds any certifications or licenses in the medical field. No one will be mad if you look her up in the appropriate database, or check to see if she did her residency where she says she did. The more you can trust your buddy, the better! @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ If you find someone you'd like to buddy with, encourage her to take point and to Action first aid spaces and wellness centers are very different animals from most community clinics. They exist as an additional tier of care provided by action medical, and do not replace existing community health services when those are needed. Patients who do not immediately need emergent care services offered by technical medicine use action wellness/first aid space to rest, get a higher level of patient care than can be provided in the street, get injuries documented, receive wellness services or nursing care, or consult with an herbalist or other clinician. -A common sight in action wellness/first aid spaces is "the drunk guy who face-planted." His friends flagged down a street medic and reported he stood up on a park bench and fell on his face. He's drunk so you can't really evaluate the cause of his altered mental status. No vomiting, no observed transient loss of consciousness, pupils equal, round and sluggish in response to light. The medics try to get the guy's friends to take him home and follow the guidelines on the [head injury aftercare sheet](http://m4t.wikidot.com/contrib:en-ac-head), but they came all the way from Montreal and really want to be out in the streets. So the friends take him to the action wellness/first aid space. During his evaluation, he's meek and apologetic. Medics make him comfortable and let him sleep, herbalists brew up some tea, and a medic wakes him up every hour to check his pupils and look for late developing signs like raccoon eyes or Battle's sign. He feels better by the time his friends come back, and the medics send his friends home with clear instructions for using the head injury aftercare sheet. +A common sight in action wellness/first aid spaces is "the drunk guy who face-planted." His friends flagged down a street medic and reported he stood up on a park bench and fell on his face. He's drunk so you can't really evaluate the cause of his altered mental status. No vomiting, no observed transient loss of consciousness, pupils equal, round and sluggish in response to light. The medics try to get the guy's friends to take him home and follow the guidelines on the [head injury aftercare sheet](http://safety.branchable.com/blunt_trauma), but they came all the way from Montreal and really want to be out in the streets. So the friends take him to the action wellness/first aid space. During his evaluation, he's meek and apologetic. Medics make him comfortable and let him sleep, herbalists brew up some tea, and a medic wakes him up every hour to check his pupils and look for late developing signs like raccoon eyes or Battle's sign. He feels better by the time his friends come back, and the medics send his friends home with clear instructions for using the head injury aftercare sheet. Action wellness/first aid spaces don't see themselves as definitive care. In a pinch, they stretch their resources and pull off amazing feats with patients who absolutely refuse transfer to definitive care. But for everybody else, the clinic triages them into those who leave quick with or without a simple intervention, those who stick around for a while for assessment over time or rest, and those who leave quick in an ambulance or a car for the hospital. The action wellness/first aid space needs a good list of local low-cost and free health and social services to give patients who require definitive follow-up or services the action wellness/first aid space cannot provide. @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Nurses and herbalists prove some of the best at intuitively understanding what i ## Generating records for lawsuits and criminal defense -Patients sometimes want police-inflicted injuries documented for legal purposes. Common injuries include almost visibly imperceptible wrist abrasions or bruising combined with [compression neuropathy of the superficial radial nerve](http://www.ncemi.org/cse/cse0920.htm) caused by long custody in overtight handcuffs, or 30 cm wide contusions in lateral lumbar regions caused by blunt force trauma (usually from projectiles fired at fleeing protesters). Sites where requests for injury documentation are most common include at jail support (when support teams including medics, legal, and comfort maintain vigil outside holding facilities to receive released arrestees), in the action wellness/first aid space, and at housing sites. Street medics take [photographic and written evidence](http://www.midnightspecial.net/materials/shootingthewounded.html) of injuries and give these records to the patient. Reports written by anybody other than a medical provider are considered hearsay by judges, but usually a legal team can use them to build a case. +Patients sometimes want police-inflicted injuries documented for legal purposes. Common injuries include almost visibly imperceptible wrist abrasions or bruising combined with [compression neuropathy of the superficial radial nerve](http://agk.sdf.org/lib/cse/cse0920.htm) caused by long custody in overtight handcuffs, or 30 cm wide contusions in lateral lumbar regions caused by blunt force trauma (usually from projectiles fired at fleeing protesters). Sites where requests for injury documentation are most common include at jail support (when support teams including medics, legal, and comfort maintain vigil outside holding facilities to receive released arrestees), in the action wellness/first aid space, and at housing sites. Street medics take [photographic and written evidence](http://www.midnightspecial.net/materials/shootingthewounded.html) of injuries and give these records to the patient. Reports written by anybody other than a medical provider are considered hearsay by judges, but usually a legal team can use them to build a case. Medical providers have the authority to create official medical records which can be used as legal documents in court. The authority to create legal documentation of injuries can be a great asset to patients. In the United States, medical doctors and doctors of osteopathy are granted this right in all states. The ability of nurse practitioners to produce official medical records with the authority of legal documents in court is governed differently by each state's advanced practice nursing or advanced nursing practice laws. When producing medical records for patients, be sure to provide your business card or other contact information along with the record, so the patient can easily contact you and call you as a witness in court. Be aware that if they do initiate a lawsuit, it may be several years before you are called.
added pipelines
diff --git a/tmp-manifesto.mdwn b/tmp-manifesto.mdwn index b729f78..1afdea5 100644 --- a/tmp-manifesto.mdwn +++ b/tmp-manifesto.mdwn @@ -40,58 +40,60 @@ 18. Our politics are the result of our relationships. -19. By doing movement care work, we risk disappointing people we try to support or falling short of our commitments. We risk violent injury, arrest, losing our jobs, and demoralization, and exhaustion. +19. By doing movement care work, we risk disappointing people we try to support or falling short of our commitments. We risk violent injury, arrest, losing our jobs, demoralization, and exhaustion. -20. Our risks are not unusual in the communities we serve and in which we participate. Many of our friends risk much more than some of us do. +20. Our risks are not unusual in communities we serve and in which we participate. Our friends risk much more than some of us do. -21. We want to serve for the long haul. +21. We want to care for the long haul. 22. Several members of our collective did movement support work for decades, until their natural deaths. We support each other in hopes that all of us who want to follow their lead will be able to do the same. -23. We don't think small efforts like ours are sufficient to fix or replace our health care system, or fully care for the movements we support. First aid won't fix racism, materialism, and militarism. Neither will privatized services, foundations, thinktanks, or nonprofits. +23. We don't think small efforts like ours fix or replace our health care system or fully care for the movements we support. First aid does not fix racism, materialism, or militarism. Neither will privatized services, foundations, thinktanks, or nonprofits. -24. We believe in and advocate for universal public programs under democratic control, accountable especially to the communities and neighborhoods that lose the most from privatization and during economic, environmental, and disease crises. These are the communities we support with bandaids and referrals during protest. +24. We believe in and advocate for universal public programs under democratic control, accountable especially to communities and neighborhoods that lose most from privatization and during economic, environmental, and disease crises. These are the communities we support with bandaids and referrals during protest. ## People > property -25. Some of us work in the alienating and racist hospital system, which resulted from hospital privatization after public hospitals were forced to racially integrate in the 1960s. We witness as the health care system actively maintains oppression with language and citizenship status discrimination, copays and deductibles, short-staffing and exploitation, alienation and prejudice +25. Some of us work in the alienating and racist hospital system, which resulted from hospital privatization after public hospitals were forced to racially integrate in the 1960s. We witness as the health care system actively maintains oppression with language and citizenship status discrimination, copays and deductibles, short-staffing and exploitation, alienation and prejudice. -26. Coronavirus killed tens of thousands of our elders. Even before the pandemic, it cost on average more than $8,000 a month to live an isolated life in a nursing home. Corporate makes money by taking away peoples' independence in dehumanizing ways---putting residents in diapers, for example, because understaffing means we don't have time to help them to the toilet. Residents die entirely preventable deaths from isolation, pressure sores, urinary tract infections, and waves of respiratory disease. +26. Covid-19 killed hundreds of thousands of our elders. Even before the pandemic, it cost on average more than $8,000 a month to live an isolated life in a nursing home. Corporate makes money by taking away peoples' independence in dehumanizing ways---putting residents in diapers, for example, because understaffing means we don't have time to help them to the toilet. Residents die preventable deaths from isolation, pressure sores, urinary tract infections, and waves of respiratory disease. 27. Rides on ambulances we drive cost thousands of dollars. Simple medicines like insulin, Epipens, and Narcan nasal spray are priced high enough to kill. -28. Corporate exploits the care work of staff to draw our patients and their families into unpayable debt. Private equity firms create health care monopolies. To extract money, they degrade our work and harm our patients. During recessions, Congress and the Federal Reserve quickly and smoothly give trillions of dollars to the wealthiest few, but act largely unconcerned about everyone else. Debt, degradation, and premature deaths are caused by policy, not scarcity. +28. Corporate exploits care work of staff to draw patients and their families into unpayable debt. Private equity firms create health care monopolies. To extract money, they degrade our work and harm our patients. During recessions, Congress and the Federal Reserve quickly and smoothly give trillions of dollars to the wealthiest few, but very little to everyone else. Debt, degradation, and premature deaths are caused by policy, not scarcity. -29. Congress refuses to fund pandemic-related state and municipal budget shortfalls. Congress's dereliction of duty drove states to reopen schools in hopes people would go back to work because the states desperately need tax revenue. Without budgets, radical defunding of public services and benefits may accelerate, and municipalities may go into antidemocratic recieverships. +29. Congress refuses to fund pandemic-related state and municipal budget shortfalls. Congress's dereliction of duty drove states to reopen schools in hopes people would go back to work because states need tax revenue. Without budgets, radical defunding of public services and benefits accelerate, and municipalities go into antidemocratic recieverships. -30. We anticipate increased racialized violence by militarized private security hired by property owners when police are defunded, even as we care for too many victims of brutality by public police today in the streets, medical and psychiatric hospitals, and nonprofits and essential jobs where we work. +30. We anticipate increased racialized violence by militarized private security hired by property owners if police are defunded, even as we care for victims of public police today in the streets, medical and psychiatric hospitals, and nonprofits and essential jobs where we work. -31. Parents, students, and teachers resist privatization of schools and other public services, particularly in Southside and Westside neighborhoods. Where there are too many guns and too few good jobs, permanent school closures kill children. +31. Parents, students, and teachers face privatization and closure of schools and other public services, particularly in neighborhoods and counties where there are too many guns and too few good jobs. Permanent school closures kill children. -32. DEPORTATION AND EXPLOITING UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE +32. PIPELINES, INDIGENOUS JUSTICE, AND EJ -33. FORECLOSURE, EVICTION, ETC +33. DEPORTATION AND EXPLOITING UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE -34. WAR, POLICE MILITARIZATION, VETERANS, ETC +34. FORECLOSURE, EVICTION, ETC -35. We suffer together from the way things are. We come home from work to families, neighbors, and friends who fight alienation and deprivation to forge good lives. Because of the trust and care of solidarity, we are never hopeless. +35. WAR, POLICE MILITARIZATION, VETERANS, ETC + +36. We suffer together from the way things are. We come home from work to families, neighbors, and friends who fight alienation and deprivation to forge good lives. Due to the trust and care of solidarity, we are never hopeless. ## Public good -36. We advocate for universal single-payer health care, a federal jobs guarantee, good public schools, public parks, public hospitals and community mental health clinics, safe public transit, safe public housing, post office banks, public libraries, public broadband, well-paid public defenders, generous public pensions, public childcare, and an end to inequeties like cash bail. +37. We advocate for universal single-payer health care, a federal jobs guarantee, good public schools, public parks, public hospitals and community mental health clinics, safe public transit, safe public housing, post office banks, public libraries, public broadband, well-paid public defenders, generous public pensions, public childcare, and an end to inequeties like cash bail. -37. We call for the wealthy to have to use the same public goods as the rest of us, to ensure that public goods remain adequately funded. +38. We call for the wealthy to have to use the same public goods as the rest of us, to ensure public goods remain adequately funded. -38. We call for a Jubilee of international and individual debt cancellation. +39. We call for a Jubilee of international and individual debt cancellation. -39. We advocate demilitarization abroad and at home, and reinvestment of the peace dividend in universal public goods. +40. We advocate demilitarization abroad and at home, and reinvestment of the peace dividend in universal public goods. -40. We stand with and listen to the people protesting in the streets. We trust the freshness of their analysis and demands. +41. We stand with and listen to people protesting in the streets. We trust the freshness of their analysis and demands. -41. We live better lives when we care for people we've never met before, our friends in the movement, and each other as best we can. +42. We live better lives when we care for people we've never met before, our friends in the movement, and each other as best we can. -42. Our care work, like our politics, is grounded in serving the public good---the good which provides a preferential option for the poor, exploited, lonely, or oppressed. +43. Our care work, like our politics, is grounded in serving the public good---the good which provides a preferential option for the poor, exploited, lonely, or oppressed. -43. We know society is continually being remade by people, as conflicts are worked out in the streets, the courts, the bureaucracies, and the legislatures. We know which side we are on. We are here for this. +44. We know society is continually being remade by people, as conflicts are worked out in the streets, the courts, the bureaucracies, and the legislatures. We know which side we are on. We are here for this. *“I just don't see anything to be substituted for having people understand their position and...their potential power and how to use it. This can only be done through the long route of...organizing people in small groups and parlaying those into large groups.” ---Bob Moses, SNCC leader.*
simplified lots of language
diff --git a/tmp-manifesto.mdwn b/tmp-manifesto.mdwn index 047463c..b729f78 100644 --- a/tmp-manifesto.mdwn +++ b/tmp-manifesto.mdwn @@ -20,23 +20,23 @@ 8. We believe movement care work prevents premature demobilization due to mass illness, injury, demoralization, or exhaustion. -9. We believe movement care work is a meaningful way to participate non-directively in social change. We try to remove obstacles, and enable collective participation and leadership, particularly by people who must use the language of the unheard. +9. We believe movement care work is a meaningful way to participate non-directively in social change. We try to remove obstacles, and enable collective participation and leadership, particularly by people who use the language of the unheard. -10. We focus our attention on people we percieve to be especially vulnerable in highly politicized environments due to age, risk or history of targeting, and social or behavioral flags. +10. We focus our care on people we percieve to be especially vulnerable in highly politicized environments due to age, risk or history of targeting, and social or behavioral flags. -11. We build relationships as intensively with protesters as we can, through education, respectful service, and simple care (like cough drops). +11. We build relationships with protesters through education, respectful service, and simple care (like cough drops). -12. We promote mass prevention and resilience in simple ways. For example, we attend to sanitation at food tables, work to ensure access to bathroom facilities, and teach post-pepperspray decontamination. +12. We promote mass prevention and resilience in simple ways. We attend to sanitation at food tables, secure access to bathroom facilities, and teach post-pepperspray decontamination. 13. We maintain long-term relationships over years. Some of us continue our parents' multi-generational relationships on the left. -14. We speak out against violence against protesters by the beneficiaries of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism. Some violence kills our friends dramatically or leaves marks on their bodies. Some violence is more hidden. +14. We speak publically about violence against protesters by beneficiaries of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism. Some violence kills our friends or leaves marks on their bodies. Some violence is more hidden. -15. We work to stay open to criticism by participants in protest and social movements, particularly front-line people and organizations we routinely support locally and elsewhere. We also maintain accountable friendships with many medics their organizations. +15. We welcome criticism by participants in protest and social movements, particularly front-line people and organizations we routinely support. We maintain accountable friendships with other care workers. -16. We find that we grow personally and politically through doing movement care work. Over time, and after many mistakes, we become more humble and more brave. +16. We grow personally and politically through movement care work. Over time, and after mistakes, we become more humble and more brave. -17. We take action in our workplaces and communities to advance the popular politics we are honored to participate in during times of protest. +17. We take action in our workplaces and communities to advance popular politics we learn in popular uprisings. 18. Our politics are the result of our relationships.
7: simplified wording
diff --git a/tmp-manifesto.mdwn b/tmp-manifesto.mdwn index 4a2da34..047463c 100644 --- a/tmp-manifesto.mdwn +++ b/tmp-manifesto.mdwn @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ 6. Care work includes child care, teaching, health work, cooking, and domestic work. We do it for people we care about. -7. We believe the mere *presence* of care workers helps people boldly take action when they must first overcome fear due to concerns about accessibility, history of victimization by social or state violence, or their own caregiving responsibilities. +7. We believe the mere *presence* of care workers helps people take action when they have fears about accessibility, victimization by social or state violence, or caregiving responsibilities. 8. We believe movement care work prevents premature demobilization due to mass illness, injury, demoralization, or exhaustion.
5. care work > care
diff --git a/tmp-manifesto.mdwn b/tmp-manifesto.mdwn index fbb7b3b..4a2da34 100644 --- a/tmp-manifesto.mdwn +++ b/tmp-manifesto.mdwn @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ ## Care work -5. We believe care work plays a part in the sustainability and triumph of movements. Care work supports growth of voice, trust, and power. +5. We believe care plays a part in the sustainability and triumph of movements. Care supports growth of voice, trust, and power. 6. Care work includes child care, teaching, health work, cooking, and domestic work. We do it for people we care about.
removed or fixed dead links
diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 7e0d388..10b7aca 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -44,20 +44,16 @@ * Prevent [[superspreader_events_and_respiratory_disease_deaths]]. * [[Develop your own analysis]] and do [[popular education]]. -**Offsite links:** -* [Tips for protesters flyer](https://ia601403.us.archive.org/10/items/antipolicebrutalityflyer/antipolicebrutalityflyer.pdf) from Can't Touch This NYC. -* [In case I need help form](https://northstarhealth.files.wordpress.com/2017/01/in-case-i-need-help1.pdf) from North Star Health Collective. -* Lisa Fithian's [protest planning resources](https://organizingforpower.org/action-resource/). -* [Outline for 3-hour protester health and safety training](http://agk.wikidot.com/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline). -* [New quick demonstrating & safety guide](https://streetmedicqc.blogspot.com/2015/03/new-quick-demonstrating-safety-guide.html) from Quebec medics. [Protest safety info images](https://friendlyneighborhoodstreetmedic.tumblr.com/) from Seattle medics. [Health and safety](https://medic.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Health_and_safety) documents on medic wiki. -* TikTok with [basic ASL for helping a protester](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rC8_s2q5jxFtpbBZCKjujjH8O6jmGCFY). +<small>**Links to other websites:** -**Offsite links (tear gas and pepper spray):** +* *[Tips for protesters flyer](https://ia601403.us.archive.org/10/items/antipolicebrutalityflyer/antipolicebrutalityflyer.pdf) from Can't Touch This NYC.* +* *[Outline for 3-hour protester health and safety training](http://agk.wikidot.com/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline) from Ferguson uprising.* +* *Lisa Fithian's [protest planning resources](https://web.archive.org/web/20210224175426/https://www.organizingforpower.org/action-resource/).* +* *[Safety guide](https://streetmedicqc.blogspot.com/2015/03/new-quick-demonstrating-safety-guide.html) from Quebec medics. [Safety images](https://friendlyneighborhoodstreetmedic.tumblr.com/) from Seattle medics. [Health and safety](https://web.archive.org/web/20210305195921/https://medic.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Health_and_safety) on medic wiki.* +* *[Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/rananazzalh/status/1268583829251461122) and [images](https://riotid.com/) for recognizing police crowd-control weaponry.* +* *Eye flush [video and image](https://www.facebook.com/NYCactionmedical/) pinned to the top of NYCAM's fb. [Eye flush](https://web.archive.org/web/20201111201441/https://medic.wikia.org/wiki/Eye_Flush) on medic wiki.* +* *[Tear gas flyer](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog:notes-and-resources-for-ferguson-protests/tear-gas.pdf) from Chicago Action Medical.* +* *[Basic ASL to help a protester](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rC8_s2q5jxFtpbBZCKjujjH8O6jmGCFY) video; [chemical weapons at protests](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rC8_s2q5jxFtpbBZCKjujjH8O6jmGCFY) (English/Spanish) from Boston Digital Streetmedics.*</small> -* Chemical Weapons at Protests pdf: [English](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rC8_s2q5jxFtpbBZCKjujjH8O6jmGCFY) or [Spanish](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rC8_s2q5jxFtpbBZCKjujjH8O6jmGCFY) screen version; [English](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rC8_s2q5jxFtpbBZCKjujjH8O6jmGCFY) or [Spanish](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rC8_s2q5jxFtpbBZCKjujjH8O6jmGCFY) print version (Boston Digital Streetmedics, 2020). -* [Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/rananazzalh/status/1268583829251461122) and [images](https://riotid.com/) for recognizing police crowd-control weaponry. -* Eye flush [TikTok](https://www.facebook.com/Savlenns/videos/10158568370194343/). Eye flush [video and image](https://www.facebook.com/NYCactionmedical/) pinned to the top of NYCAM's fb. [Eye flush](https://medic.wikia.org/wiki/Eye_Flush) on medic wiki. -* [Tear gas flyer](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog:notes-and-resources-for-ferguson-protests/tear-gas.pdf) from Chicago Action Medical. - -[[CC BY-SA]]. *Most materials on this site were reviewed by members of Chicago Action Medical or Appalachian Medical Solidarity.* +[[CC BY-SA]]. *Most materials on this site peer reviewed by members of Chicago Action Medical or Appalachian Medical Solidarity.*
simplified wording of AAO call to action
diff --git a/blunt_trauma.mdwn b/blunt_trauma.mdwn index 1e4cc01..f0f0a85 100644 --- a/blunt_trauma.mdwn +++ b/blunt_trauma.mdwn @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ For legal purposes, document injuries with photographs or video, as soon as poss * Foul odor from area. * Generalized chills or fever over 99.5F. -*The American Academy of Ophthalmology is asking doctors to carefully document eye injuries from rubber bullets and tear gas. If you have a severe eye injury from a rubber bullet, tell your future Ophthalmologist about the cause of injury. The Academy needs proof to do something about these destructive behaviors by the cops. Posts by the media and public documentation help but they need to collect medical evidence.* +*The American Academy of Ophthalmology is asking doctors to document eye injuries from rubber bullets and tear gas. If you have a severe eye injury from a rubber bullet, tell your ophthalmologist the cause. The Academy wants to do something. Posts by media and public documentation help, but they need medical evidence.* ## Head Injury
simplified wording
diff --git a/wounds.mdwn b/wounds.mdwn index 702fd9f..11eb73d 100644 --- a/wounds.mdwn +++ b/wounds.mdwn @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ * *Protect yourself*. Do not get cut or shot while trying to help. Cover your hands with gloves or plastic bags before touching blood. * *Stop all bleeding.* Apply pressure to wounds for at least 10 minutes. Elevate injured areas. -* Help the person sit or lie down somewhere safe. Monitor for shock, a life-threatening condition that can result from severe bleeding. +* Help the person sit or lie down somewhere safe. Monitor for shock, a life-threat caused by severe bleeding. * Wash your hands after removing gloves. **Signs of shock**
minor style change
diff --git a/wounds.mdwn b/wounds.mdwn index 1b39d10..702fd9f 100644 --- a/wounds.mdwn +++ b/wounds.mdwn @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ## First aid * *Protect yourself*. Do not get cut or shot while trying to help. Cover your hands with gloves or plastic bags before touching blood. -* *Stop all bleeding.* Apply pressure to wounds for at least 10 minutes and elevate injured area. +* *Stop all bleeding.* Apply pressure to wounds for at least 10 minutes. Elevate injured areas. * Help the person sit or lie down somewhere safe. Monitor for shock, a life-threatening condition that can result from severe bleeding. * Wash your hands after removing gloves.
minor style edits
diff --git a/wounds.mdwn b/wounds.mdwn index 9f36cf8..1b39d10 100644 --- a/wounds.mdwn +++ b/wounds.mdwn @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ## First aid * *Protect yourself*. Do not get cut or shot while trying to help. Cover your hands with gloves or plastic bags before touching blood. -* *Stop all bleeding.* Apply pressure to wound for at least 10 minutes and elevate injured area. +* *Stop all bleeding.* Apply pressure to wounds for at least 10 minutes and elevate injured area. * Help the person sit or lie down somewhere safe. Monitor for shock, a life-threatening condition that can result from severe bleeding. * Wash your hands after removing gloves. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ ## See doctor for -* Any numbness, weakness, tingling sensation or inability to move beyond the wound. +* Numbness, weakness, tingling sensation or inability to move beyond the wound. * Deep puncture wound. * Cut on chest, back, abdomen, face, or hands, unless wound is very small. * Animal (or human) bite.
added snikket to encrypted chat apps
diff --git a/stay_safe_in_the_streets.mdwn b/stay_safe_in_the_streets.mdwn index dd16d9a..92d4d4f 100644 --- a/stay_safe_in_the_streets.mdwn +++ b/stay_safe_in_the_streets.mdwn @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Unite with people from your neighborhood, school, church, or other affinity grou Make sure your phone is charged and you have service. * Trade social media handles with other groups like yours. Verify rumors and support each other. -* Use encrypted chat apps (signal, [briar](https://briarproject.org/), [element](https://element.io/)). +* Use encrypted chat apps (signal, [briar](https://briarproject.org/), [snikket](https://snikket.org/), [element](https://element.io/)). * Keep emergency contacts and essential information on paper and in your phone. Your phone may get taken, lost, or broken. * Everyone must know what to do in case of problems and where to go (nearest hospital, home of a relative, etc).
fixed broken link to post-crisis plan
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index fe8025b..4058cb1 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Resources - **[Helping Yourself and Helping Others](https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/Where_Women_Have_No_Doctor:Helping_Yourself_and_Helping_Others)**, from *Where Women Have No Doctor* - **[Video models of how to respond to distress](http://agk.sdf.org/cam/learn/distress-vid.html)** - **[Personal Assistance in Community Existence manual](https://power2u.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/pace_manual.pdf)** (pdf) by Ahearn and Fisher -- **[Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery](https://www.veterantraining.va.gov/apps/recovery/documents/Action_Planning_for_Prevention_and_Recovery_SAMSHA_07_2003.pdf)**, [My WRAP Plan](http://namirockland.org/uploads/3/4/0/3/34038357/blank_wrap_forms_with_mc_permission.pdf), and [Post-crisis Plan](https://mentalhealthrecovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/postcrisisplan.pdf) (pdfs) by Mary Ellen Copeland +- **[Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery](https://www.veterantraining.va.gov/apps/recovery/documents/Action_Planning_for_Prevention_and_Recovery_SAMSHA_07_2003.pdf)**, [My WRAP Plan](http://namirockland.org/uploads/3/4/0/3/34038357/blank_wrap_forms_with_mc_permission.pdf), and [Post-crisis Plan](https://mentalhealthrecovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CopyrightPOSTCRISISPLAN.pdf) (pdfs) by Mary Ellen Copeland Hotlines are staffed 24 hours a day unless otherwise noted. We tried to exclude hotlines that nonconsensually involve police from this list. Ask before putting someone in crisis on the phone if the operator is ever required to involve police.
Removed dead link
diff --git a/jail_support.mdwn b/jail_support.mdwn index 03fffc7..d07508d 100644 --- a/jail_support.mdwn +++ b/jail_support.mdwn @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ There is no need for legal training to do jail support. ## Links * [Jail support form](https://coldsnaplegal.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/coldsnap_affinity_group_support_form.pdf) from Coldsnap Legal Collective and [arrest safety worksheet](https://swopusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Arrest-Safety-Planning.pdf) from Sex Workers Outreach Project. [Another jail support form](https://www.dropbox.com/s/1f085ell0pu7syf/Jail%20Support%20for%20Public.doc?dl=0). -* [How to get by in jail](https://activistlegal.fandom.com/wiki/How_to_Get_By_In_Jail) on activist legal wiki. ## Source
updated buddy vision and safety circle pics
diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 127cf66..7e0d388 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ **Before cops or situations isolate you, get a buddy.** * Choose a buddy with [[PEARL]] interview. -* Stay safe in a crowd with [360 buddy vision](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/trainings%3A_start/buddyvision-draft-200731) (image). +* Stay safe in a crowd with [360 buddy vision](http://agk.sdf.org/cam/learn/scene360.jpg) (image). * Watch for dangers, opportunities, and exits. **If anxiety, fear, or excitement might dissociate you, ground.** @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ **When they try to take your power or voice, do something.** -* Protect someone with a [safety circle](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/trainings%3A_start/buddyvision-draft-200624) (image). +* Protect someone with a [safety circle](http://agk.sdf.org/cam/learn/scene-circl.jpg) (image). * Resist tear gas and pepperspray. * Don't let weather stop the action. * Do [[jail support]].
fixed broken link with wayback machine
diff --git a/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn b/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn index 28b72ef..9b67915 100644 --- a/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn +++ b/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Build your own analysis through reflection, critical thinking, and the conversat * [Social class, capitalism and the murder of George Floyd](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/11/pers-j11.html) by Niles Niemuth. * [What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?](https://www.truthdig.com/articles/black-panthers-think-black-lives-matter/) by Paul Street (important critique of BLM organization, not of the uprisings). * [Reformist reforms vs.abolitionist steps](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59ead8f9692ebee25b72f17f/t/5b65cd58758d46d34254f22c/1533398363539/CR_NoCops_reform_vs_abolition_CRside.pdf) (pdf) by Critical Resistance. -* [replacing police with social workers](https://jessacrispin.substack.com/p/replacing-police-with-social-workers) by Jessa Crispin (written for the *Guardian* but canceled), who shows how social workers *already are* police. +* [replacing police with social workers](https://web.archive.org/web/20200617164308/https://jessacrispin.substack.com/p/replacing-police-with-social-workers) by Jessa Crispin (written for the *Guardian* but canceled), who shows how social workers *already are* police. * [The Triumph of Black Lives Matter and Neoliberal Redemption](https://nonsite.org/editorial/the-triumph-of-black-lives-matter-and-neoliberal-redemption) by Cedric Johnson: > “Corporate giants like Walmart and Amazon widely condemned the killing of George Floyd and other policing excesses.... [Amazon CEO] Bezos also pledged $10 million in support of “social justice organizations”.... The leadership of Warner, Sony Music and Walmart each committed $100 million.... Only weeks before George Floyd’s killing, Amazon...faced mounting pressure from labor activists over their inadequate protections, low wages, lack of health benefits and other working conditions. Corporate anti-racism is the perfect egress from these labor conflicts. Black lives matter to the front office, as long as they don’t demand a living wage, personal protective equipment and quality health care.
2 small formatting changes
diff --git a/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn b/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn index 4994294..28b72ef 100644 --- a/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn +++ b/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn @@ -48,11 +48,10 @@ Build your own analysis through reflection, critical thinking, and the conversat * [Mass Incarceration: New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?](https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/MassIncarcerationPaper.pdf) (pdf) by Nathaniel Lewis for the People's Policy Project: -> Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, I analyze racial and class disparities in incarceration. My analysis shows that class status has a large and statistically significant effect on (1) whether or not men aged 24--32 years have ever been to jail or prison; (2) whether or not men are jailed after be-ing arrested; (3) whether or not men have spent more than a month in jail or prison; and (4) whether or not men have spent more than a year in jail or prison. After controlling for class, I do not find race to be a statistically significant factor for the first three outcome categories, but I do find that race has a significant impact on whether or not a man has spent more than a year in prison or jail. +> Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, I analyze racial and class disparities in incarceration. My analysis shows that class status has a large and statistically significant effect on (1) whether or not men aged 24--32 years have ever been to jail or prison; (2) whether or not men are jailed after being arrested; (3) whether or not men have spent more than a month in jail or prison; and (4) whether or not men have spent more than a year in jail or prison. After controlling for class, I do not find race to be a statistically significant factor for the first three outcome categories, but I do find that race has a significant impact on whether or not a man has spent more than a year in prison or jail. **Wisdom from the '50s and '60s** * [Race, politics, and culture : critical essays on the radicalism of the 1960's](https://b-ok.cc/book/2068699/e06793) (pdf download link), edited by Adolph Reed. -* [The Spook Who Sat by the Door](https://b-ok.cc/book/5157357/c560c4) (pdf download link) by Sam Greenlee is a hilariously scathing black revolutionary political novel. - * was made into a [blaxploitation-ish film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxtMoaV42n8) (youtube link). The book is sharper and funnier than the film. +* [The Spook Who Sat by the Door](https://b-ok.cc/book/5157357/c560c4) (pdf download link) by Sam Greenlee is a hilariously scathing black revolutionary political novel. It was made into a [blaxploitation-ish film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxtMoaV42n8) (youtube link). The book is sharper and funnier than the film. * [The Pitfalls of National Consciousness](https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/pitfalls-national.htm) by Frantz Fanon (from *The Wretched of the Earth*) describes the aftermath of decolonization in Algeria of the 1950s. Key text in black consciousness study groups.
removed irrelevant section I had previously added due to misplaced enthusiasms
diff --git a/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn b/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn index 389b926..4994294 100644 --- a/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn +++ b/develop_your_own_analysis.mdwn @@ -36,31 +36,6 @@ Build your own analysis through reflection, critical thinking, and the conversat > > “When the police arm of government is shut down, the need for a protective and enforcement force for the ruling class will persist. The chambers of commerce, Walmarts and wealthy white enclave[s] will not simply say “well, I guess there are no more police.” They will form...force[s]...answerable only to them. The new privatized police will not be confused for public servants, they will be overt and unambiguous mercenaries.” -**Censorship** - -* [The American Press is Destroying Itself](https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself), by Matt Taibbi, discusses the chilling effect of cancel/deplatforming culture in the newsrooms of the *Intercept*, *Vox*, the *Philadelphia Inquirier*, *Variety*, the *New York Times*, and other news outlets: - -> “The main thing accomplished by removing...editorials from newspapers [then forcing resignations from editors]...is to shield readers from knowledge of what a major segment of American society is thinking. -> -> “It also guarantees that opinion writers and editors alike will shape views to avoid upsetting colleagues, which means that instead of hearing what our differences are and how we might address those issues, newspaper readers will instead be presented with page after page of people professing to agree with one another.... -> -> “All these episodes sent a signal to everyone in a business already shedding jobs at an extraordinary rate that failure to toe certain editorial lines can and will result in the loss of your job. Perhaps additionally, you could face a public shaming campaign in which you will be denounced as a racist and rendered unemployable.” - -* [Wall Street Journal investigation confirms Google operates censorship blacklist](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/18/pers-n18.html) by Andre Damon. -* [Narrative Control Operations Escalate As America Burns](https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/narrative-control-operations-escalate-as-america-burns-70cca6280961) by Caitlyn Johnstone: - -> “In 2017, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed in a US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that it is their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” and adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord.” “Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words,” the representatives were told.... “America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.”... -> -> ““As protesters hit the streets in cities across the country, America’s foreign adversaries have flooded social media with content meant to sow division and discord in the wake of George Floyd’s death, according to a U.S. government intelligence bulletin obtained by [Disney-owned] ABC News,”.... “These actors criticize the United States as hypocritical, corrupt, undemocratic, racist, guilty of human rights abuses and on the verge of collapsing,” the bulletin reads.” - -> In June 2020: - -* PayPal banned the words “Syria”, “Iran” and “Palestine” in transaction messages. Payments fall ‘under review’. -* Twitter partnered with ASPI -- a think tank funded by the US military -- to ban 170k accounts run by real Chinese people for writing in Chinese, praising China's COVID-19 response, or criticizing the HK protests, but continues to allow known fake accounts like the anti-Iran MEK propaganda operation “Heshmat Alavi” to pose as real people. -* Facebook deleted thousands of posts by Palestinians and boasted of systematically erasing the accounts of Palestinian journalists and photographers. -* Wikipedia, whose co-founder once told the US Senate that the online encyclopedia project “may be helpful to government operations and homeland security”, blacklisted *Mintpress*, *The Grayzone*, *teleSur English*, and *Venezuela Analysis* on a list of outlets that are never to be used under any circumstance as sources, under pressure from U.S.-supported right-wing opposition in Venezuela. Wikipedia also designated WikiLeaks an unreliable source, despite its nearly 14-year record of authentic publications. -* Google continued its "Project Owl" search blacklist, which drastically reduces traffic to left-wing, antiwar, and progressive websites. - **History** > “George Bush had Rodney King. Under Bill Clinton it was Amadou Diallo shot 41 times, remembered in the Springsteen song American Skin (41 Shots). For George W. Bush, it was Sean Bell. Eric Garner was strangled by police during the Obama term, alongside the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.... After the police killing of Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2015, Obama called the protesters “criminals”...[and his] Justice Department did not prosecute Eric Gardner’s [nor]...Michael Brown’s killer.” @@ -77,7 +52,7 @@ Build your own analysis through reflection, critical thinking, and the conversat **Wisdom from the '50s and '60s** +* [Race, politics, and culture : critical essays on the radicalism of the 1960's](https://b-ok.cc/book/2068699/e06793) (pdf download link), edited by Adolph Reed. * [The Spook Who Sat by the Door](https://b-ok.cc/book/5157357/c560c4) (pdf download link) by Sam Greenlee is a hilariously scathing black revolutionary political novel. * was made into a [blaxploitation-ish film](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxtMoaV42n8) (youtube link). The book is sharper and funnier than the film. -* [The Pitfalls of National Consciousness](https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/pitfalls-national.htm) by Frantz Fanon (from *The Wretched of the Earth*) describes the aftermath of decolonization in Algeria of the 1950s. -* [Race, politics, and culture : critical essays on the radicalism of the 1960's](https://b-ok.cc/book/2068699/e06793) (pdf download link), edited by Adolph Reed. +* [The Pitfalls of National Consciousness](https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/fanon/pitfalls-national.htm) by Frantz Fanon (from *The Wretched of the Earth*) describes the aftermath of decolonization in Algeria of the 1950s. Key text in black consciousness study groups.
removed tampa stuff, added vids
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index d421c23..fe8025b 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -106,9 +106,9 @@ Resources --------- - **[Helping Yourself and Helping Others](https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/Where_Women_Have_No_Doctor:Helping_Yourself_and_Helping_Others)**, from *Where Women Have No Doctor* +- **[Video models of how to respond to distress](http://agk.sdf.org/cam/learn/distress-vid.html)** - **[Personal Assistance in Community Existence manual](https://power2u.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/pace_manual.pdf)** (pdf) by Ahearn and Fisher - **[Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery](https://www.veterantraining.va.gov/apps/recovery/documents/Action_Planning_for_Prevention_and_Recovery_SAMSHA_07_2003.pdf)**, [My WRAP Plan](http://namirockland.org/uploads/3/4/0/3/34038357/blank_wrap_forms_with_mc_permission.pdf), and [Post-crisis Plan](https://mentalhealthrecovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/postcrisisplan.pdf) (pdfs) by Mary Ellen Copeland -- **[Helping someone make a decision](https://hhwl.branchable.com/h+s/tampa/decisional_balance/)** and [strengthening commitment to change](https://hhwl.branchable.com/h+s/tampa/change/) Hotlines are staffed 24 hours a day unless otherwise noted. We tried to exclude hotlines that nonconsensually involve police from this list. Ask before putting someone in crisis on the phone if the operator is ever required to involve police.
linked to CSE
diff --git a/first_aid_guide.mdwn b/first_aid_guide.mdwn index e98f72e..75b005e 100644 --- a/first_aid_guide.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_guide.mdwn @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ * [Minor Emergencies](https://bookshop.org/books/minor-emergencies/9780323079099) ([buy it from a local bookstore](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780323079099)) by Buttaravoli and Leffler is an excellent (but expensive) urgent-care reference, which includes assessment of common police-caused injuries, such as handcuff neuropathy. * Be careful: This book is for physicians and contains advanced interventions. When in doubt, get help by taking someone to a hospital, urgent care, or family physician. - * An earlier edition will be online for free before 2021, and linked to from here. + * An earlier edition is online: [Common Simple Emergencies](http://agk.sdf.org/lib/cse/). * [Where There Is No Doctor](https://store.hesperian.org/prod/Where_There_Is_No_Doctor.html) ([buy it from a local bookstore](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780942364156)) is a general health book with a great index and very useful differential guides, especially for [cough](https://hesperian.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en_wtnd_2017/en_wtnd_2017_13.pdf) (p. 168), [back pain](https://hesperian.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en_wtnd_2017/en_wtnd_2017_13.pdf) (p. 173), [infection](https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/New_Where_There_Is_No_Doctor:Infection) (p. 88), and [skin problems](https://hesperian.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en_wtnd_2017/en_wtnd_2017_15.pdf) (p. 193-198) * Be careful: This book was written for global health. Minimally-trained people might suspect conditions that are highly unlikely in their area.
added AA
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 5da1617..d421c23 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -125,7 +125,9 @@ Warmlines are usually staffed by people with lived experience – who personally Info lines (like 311) just answer questions. - **[warmline.org](https://www.warmline.org/)** is a national directory of peer-run warmlines. Save the number for your state in your phone. If you don't like the warmline in your state, call another state. -- A Kentucky warm line is run by Participation Station: 859-252-0058 or 877-840-5167 + - A Kentucky warm line is run by Participation Station: 859-252-0058 or 877-840-5167 +- **Alcoholics Anonymous** local info and online meetings at **[aa.org](https://www.aa.org/).** + - Lexington Kentucky Bluegrass Intergroup hotline: 859-225-1212 - **Veteran Peer Support Warmline**: 1-877-927-8387 - **Backline pregnancy options line** (pregnancy options counseling and assistance accessing abortion care): 1-888-493-0092 - **Non-emergency services** (food pantries, shelters, etc.): 311
minor copyedits in connect and first half of problem solving
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index ce78252..5da1617 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Some ways to establish emotional connection: - Repeat his words to him. Mirror motions and body language as you try to understand. - Sit or squat on his level. Try to make eye contact. - Listen calmly. Ask gentle questions to show you care and be sure you understand. -- Life experiences and neurodiversity change how people connect. Connect in a way that works for the person. +- Life experiences and neurodiversity change how people connect. Find a way that works for the person. It can damage your connection to think displays of severe distress are symptoms of illness. Severe distress is a response to something that happened and felt threatening. The distressed person made sense of what happened and responded in a way that helped them survive. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ If someone says he was raped, abused, or is in danger, let him know you believe If someone says he wants to hurt himself or others, believe him. Limit questions, but ask directly about intent, plan, and means. For example: -- Do you plan to kill yourself? *(intent)* +- Do you want to kill yourself? *(intent)* - How? *(plan)* - *(If he says “with a gun”)* Do you have a gun? Where is it? *(means)* @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ If someone's level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports poisoning himself, **Basic needs.** -People in severe emotional distress have at least one unmet basic need. Prolonged lack of sleep is the most common cause of psychosis and suicidality. HALT is a basic needs check-in. When someone is very distressed, Alcoholics Anonymous members found four problems they can fix to help and prevent relapse. Are you too: +People in severe emotional distress have at least one unmet basic need. Prolonged lack of sleep is the most common cause of psychosis and suicidality. HALT is a basic needs check-in. When someone is very distressed, Alcoholics Anonymous members found four problems they can fix that help prevent relapse. Are you too: **H**ungry @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ People in severe emotional distress have at least one unmet basic need. Prolonge Each can be excessive or deficient. “Lonely for others” is the need for empathy and human connection. What about “lonely for self” – inability to get personal space for too long? On a picket line or if someone lost housing, “too cold” or “too wet” belongs on the list – hypothermia makes you tired. -HALT can structure how you explore options with someone who fled abuse or got out of jail. When did she last eat? How will she get her next meal? Where will she sleep tonight? If she hasn’t been able to sleep, what activities or medications help her sleep? Who does she want get in touch with? How will she express anger? +If someone is fleeing abuse or getting out of jail, when did she last eat? How will she get her next meal? Where will she sleep tonight? If she hasn’t been able to sleep, what activities or meds help her sleep? Who does she want get in touch with? How will she express anger? **Safety, healthcare, and morale.**
removed permission from Sugar's check-in
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 24d87d3..ce78252 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ Extreme distress is contagious. Recognize witnesses, family members, friends, pe The basic recipe for crisis survival is have a buddy, ground, and do something. Sugar’s check-in can take care of all three basic solutions at once. -- Permission: “Today was tough. Can we check in?” - What did you do for yourself today? - What do you need to do?
moved hurt others around
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 9845da4..24d87d3 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ If someone says he was raped, abused, or is in danger, let him know you believe - It’s not your fault. - You have options. -If someone tells you she hurt someone, pause. Decide how much you need to know. Say what kind of details you will and won't listen to. Tell her if you will report anything she might say. - If someone says he wants to hurt himself or others, believe him. Limit questions, but ask directly about intent, plan, and means. For example: - Do you plan to kill yourself? *(intent)* - How? *(plan)* - *(If he says “with a gun”)* Do you have a gun? Where is it? *(means)* +If someone tells you she hurt someone, pause. Decide how much you need to know. Say what kind of details you will and won't listen to. Tell her if you will report anything she might say. + If someone's level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports poisoning himself, he may need emergency interventions such as recovery position, rescue breathing, naloxone, and hospital care. If he is very drunk or high, the possibility for connection may be delayed. 2. Problem solve
remove name from MI stuff
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 1b24bb0..9845da4 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Resources - **[Helping Yourself and Helping Others](https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/Where_Women_Have_No_Doctor:Helping_Yourself_and_Helping_Others)**, from *Where Women Have No Doctor* - **[Personal Assistance in Community Existence manual](https://power2u.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/pace_manual.pdf)** (pdf) by Ahearn and Fisher - **[Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery](https://www.veterantraining.va.gov/apps/recovery/documents/Action_Planning_for_Prevention_and_Recovery_SAMSHA_07_2003.pdf)**, [My WRAP Plan](http://namirockland.org/uploads/3/4/0/3/34038357/blank_wrap_forms_with_mc_permission.pdf), and [Post-crisis Plan](https://mentalhealthrecovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/postcrisisplan.pdf) (pdfs) by Mary Ellen Copeland -- **[Helping someone make a decision](https://hhwl.branchable.com/h+s/tampa/decisional_balance/)** and [strengthening commitment to change](https://hhwl.branchable.com/h+s/tampa/change/) by Grace Keller +- **[Helping someone make a decision](https://hhwl.branchable.com/h+s/tampa/decisional_balance/)** and [strengthening commitment to change](https://hhwl.branchable.com/h+s/tampa/change/) Hotlines are staffed 24 hours a day unless otherwise noted. We tried to exclude hotlines that nonconsensually involve police from this list. Ask before putting someone in crisis on the phone if the operator is ever required to involve police.
moved links up
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 548c2dc..1b24bb0 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ Respect confidentiality. If you want to process the crisis with someone or invol Resources --------- +- **[Helping Yourself and Helping Others](https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/Where_Women_Have_No_Doctor:Helping_Yourself_and_Helping_Others)**, from *Where Women Have No Doctor* +- **[Personal Assistance in Community Existence manual](https://power2u.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/pace_manual.pdf)** (pdf) by Ahearn and Fisher +- **[Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery](https://www.veterantraining.va.gov/apps/recovery/documents/Action_Planning_for_Prevention_and_Recovery_SAMSHA_07_2003.pdf)**, [My WRAP Plan](http://namirockland.org/uploads/3/4/0/3/34038357/blank_wrap_forms_with_mc_permission.pdf), and [Post-crisis Plan](https://mentalhealthrecovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/postcrisisplan.pdf) (pdfs) by Mary Ellen Copeland +- **[Helping someone make a decision](https://hhwl.branchable.com/h+s/tampa/decisional_balance/)** and [strengthening commitment to change](https://hhwl.branchable.com/h+s/tampa/change/) by Grace Keller + Hotlines are staffed 24 hours a day unless otherwise noted. We tried to exclude hotlines that nonconsensually involve police from this list. Ask before putting someone in crisis on the phone if the operator is ever required to involve police. Call the hotline and put the distressed person on the phone with the trained operator. She may want privacy during the conversation. Afterward, ask about her plan and if she needs help carrying it out. @@ -129,9 +134,3 @@ Info lines (like 311) just answer questions. - **National LGBT Hotline** (for local resources): 1-888-843-4564 There are currently no hotlines or warmlines specifically for black or indigenous people experiencing severe distress, but there should be. See warmline.org for information about how to start a warmline. - -Read about promoting recovery and resilience: - -- **[Helping Yourself and Helping Others](https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/Where_Women_Have_No_Doctor:Helping_Yourself_and_Helping_Others)**, from *Where Women Have No Doctor* -- **[Personal Assistance in Community Existence manual](https://power2u.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/pace_manual.pdf)** (pdf) by Ahearn and Fisher -- **[Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery](https://www.veterantraining.va.gov/apps/recovery/documents/Action_Planning_for_Prevention_and_Recovery_SAMSHA_07_2003.pdf)**, [My WRAP Plan](http://namirockland.org/uploads/3/4/0/3/34038357/blank_wrap_forms_with_mc_permission.pdf), and [Post-crisis Plan](https://mentalhealthrecovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/postcrisisplan.pdf) (pdfs) by Mary Ellen Copeland
added readings
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 7902b15..548c2dc 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Warmlines are usually staffed by people with lived experience – who personally Info lines (like 311) just answer questions. -- **[https://www.warmline.org/](warmline.org)** is a national directory of peer-run warmlines. Save the number for your state in your phone. If you don't like the warmline in your state, call another state. +- **[warmline.org](https://www.warmline.org/)** is a national directory of peer-run warmlines. Save the number for your state in your phone. If you don't like the warmline in your state, call another state. - A Kentucky warm line is run by Participation Station: 859-252-0058 or 877-840-5167 - **Veteran Peer Support Warmline**: 1-877-927-8387 - **Backline pregnancy options line** (pregnancy options counseling and assistance accessing abortion care): 1-888-493-0092 @@ -129,3 +129,9 @@ Info lines (like 311) just answer questions. - **National LGBT Hotline** (for local resources): 1-888-843-4564 There are currently no hotlines or warmlines specifically for black or indigenous people experiencing severe distress, but there should be. See warmline.org for information about how to start a warmline. + +Read about promoting recovery and resilience: + +- **[Helping Yourself and Helping Others](https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/Where_Women_Have_No_Doctor:Helping_Yourself_and_Helping_Others)**, from *Where Women Have No Doctor* +- **[Personal Assistance in Community Existence manual](https://power2u.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/pace_manual.pdf)** (pdf) by Ahearn and Fisher +- **[Action Planning for Prevention and Recovery](https://www.veterantraining.va.gov/apps/recovery/documents/Action_Planning_for_Prevention_and_Recovery_SAMSHA_07_2003.pdf)**, [My WRAP Plan](http://namirockland.org/uploads/3/4/0/3/34038357/blank_wrap_forms_with_mc_permission.pdf), and [Post-crisis Plan](https://mentalhealthrecovery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/postcrisisplan.pdf) (pdfs) by Mary Ellen Copeland
clarified duration of distress responses
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index b5e0591..7902b15 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ First response for extreme distress =================================== -Emotional distress can cause abrupt thinking and behavior changes, hallucinations, or severe confusion. These stress responses may frighten the person experiencing them and people around him. +Emotional distress can cause abrupt thinking and behavior changes, hallucinations, or severe confusion. These distress responses may frighten the person experiencing them and people around him. They may last only a moment or for a longer period of time. If someone in emotional distress wants to hurt herself or others, or caused or escaped violence, it is an emergency. Provide calm, focused attention. Check breathing, stop any bleeding, and check for physical injuries. Then **establish emotional connection**, **problem-solve**, **look around**, and **follow-up**.
minor copyedit
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 0f46207..b5e0591 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ First response for extreme distress =================================== -Severe emotional distress can cause abrupt thinking and behavior changes, hallucinations, or severe confusion. These stress responses may frighten the person experiencing them and people around him. +Emotional distress can cause abrupt thinking and behavior changes, hallucinations, or severe confusion. These stress responses may frighten the person experiencing them and people around him. If someone in emotional distress wants to hurt herself or others, or caused or escaped violence, it is an emergency. Provide calm, focused attention. Check breathing, stop any bleeding, and check for physical injuries. Then **establish emotional connection**, **problem-solve**, **look around**, and **follow-up**.
general copyedit of whole document for clarity
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index b4a1542..0f46207 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -1,16 +1,16 @@ First response for extreme distress =================================== -Severe emotional distress can cause abrupt changes in thinking and behavior, hallucinations, or severe confusion. These changes may frighten the person experiencing them and people around him. +Severe emotional distress can cause abrupt thinking and behavior changes, hallucinations, or severe confusion. These stress responses may frighten the person experiencing them and people around him. -If someone in emotional distress wants to hurt herself or others, or just caused or escaped violence, it is an emergency. Provide calm, focused attention immediately. As with any emergency, check breathing, stop any bleeding, and check for other physical injuries. Then **establish emotional connection**, **problem-solve**, **look around**, and **follow-up**. +If someone in emotional distress wants to hurt herself or others, or caused or escaped violence, it is an emergency. Provide calm, focused attention. Check breathing, stop any bleeding, and check for physical injuries. Then **establish emotional connection**, **problem-solve**, **look around**, and **follow-up**. 1. Connect with the person --------------------------- **Connect emotionally.** -When a person experiences severe emotional distress, he may feel alone or afraid. He may have trouble understanding the world around him or feel others cannot understand him. Emotional connection is necessary for you and him to communicate and problem-solve. +When a person experiences severe emotional distress, he may feel alone or afraid. He may have trouble understanding the world around him or feel others cannot understand him. Emotional connection is necessary to communicate and problem-solve. Some ways to establish emotional connection: @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Some ways to establish emotional connection: - Listen calmly. Ask gentle questions to show you care and be sure you understand. - Life experiences and neurodiversity change how people connect. Connect in a way that works for the person. -It can damage your connection to think displays of severe distress are symptoms of illness. People in severe distress had something happen that felt threatening. They made sense of it and responded in a way that helped them survive. +It can damage your connection to think displays of severe distress are symptoms of illness. Severe distress is a response to something that happened and felt threatening. The distressed person made sense of what happened and responded in a way that helped them survive. Recognize your limits. Offer connection, not therapy. If a distressed person wants to tell traumatic stories, consider redirecting him to basic needs or helping him call a hotline with trained operators. @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ If someone says he was raped, abused, or is in danger, let him know you believe - It’s not your fault. - You have options. -If someone tells you she hurt someone, pause. Decide how much you need to know. Consider legal implications. Then say what kind of details you will and won't listen to. Tell her if you will report anything she says. +If someone tells you she hurt someone, pause. Decide how much you need to know. Say what kind of details you will and won't listen to. Tell her if you will report anything she might say. If someone says he wants to hurt himself or others, believe him. Limit questions, but ask directly about intent, plan, and means. For example: @@ -42,14 +42,14 @@ If someone says he wants to hurt himself or others, believe him. Limit questions - How? *(plan)* - *(If he says “with a gun”)* Do you have a gun? Where is it? *(means)* -If someone's level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports poisoning himself, he may need emergency interventions for poisoning such as recovery position, rescue breathing, naloxone, and hospital care. If he is very drunk or high, the possibility for connection may be delayed. +If someone's level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports poisoning himself, he may need emergency interventions such as recovery position, rescue breathing, naloxone, and hospital care. If he is very drunk or high, the possibility for connection may be delayed. 2. Problem solve ----------------- **Basic needs.** -People in severe emotional distress have at least one unmet basic need. Prolonged lack of sleep is the most common cause of psychosis and suicidality. HALT is a basic needs check-in about the four things Alcoholics Anonymous members found can be taken care of to prevent relapse. Are you too: +People in severe emotional distress have at least one unmet basic need. Prolonged lack of sleep is the most common cause of psychosis and suicidality. HALT is a basic needs check-in. When someone is very distressed, Alcoholics Anonymous members found four problems they can fix to help and prevent relapse. Are you too: **H**ungry @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ People in severe emotional distress have at least one unmet basic need. Prolonge **T**ired -Consider what excess or deficiency of each item feels like. “Lonely for others” is unmet need for empathy and human connection. What about “lonely for self” – inability to get personal space for too long? On the picket line or if someone lost housing, “too cold” or “too wet” belongs on the list – hypothermia makes you tired. +Each can be excessive or deficient. “Lonely for others” is the need for empathy and human connection. What about “lonely for self” – inability to get personal space for too long? On a picket line or if someone lost housing, “too cold” or “too wet” belongs on the list – hypothermia makes you tired. -HALT can structure how you explore options with someone who just fled abuse or got out of jail. When did she last eat? How will she get her next meal? Where will she sleep tonight? If she hasn’t been able to sleep, what activities or medications help her sleep? Who does she want get in touch with? How will she express her anger? +HALT can structure how you explore options with someone who fled abuse or got out of jail. When did she last eat? How will she get her next meal? Where will she sleep tonight? If she hasn’t been able to sleep, what activities or medications help her sleep? Who does she want get in touch with? How will she express anger? **Safety, healthcare, and morale.** @@ -69,16 +69,16 @@ Problem solving may involve getting permission to take someone’s gun to a frie If she hurt someone, help her contact someone qualified to hear the story and help her make amends. If the person is currently dangerous to others, it is often easier to move other people away than to move her. You may need help to make the area around her safe. Look out for your own safety as well. -Sickness can change medication blood levels. +Sickness can change medication blood levels, cause financial or other problems, and directly cause emotional distress. 3. Recognize and respond to other distressed people ---------------------------------------------------- Extreme distress is contagious. Recognize witnesses, family members, friends, people who have been harmed, or responders who are distressed. -The basic recipe for crisis survival is have a buddy, ground, and do something. Sugar’s buddy check-in can take care of all three basic solutions at once. +The basic recipe for crisis survival is have a buddy, ground, and do something. Sugar’s check-in can take care of all three basic solutions at once. -- Permission: “Today was a lot. Can we do a buddy check-in?” +- Permission: “Today was tough. Can we check in?” - What did you do for yourself today? - What do you need to do? @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Consider using Sugar’s check-in, HALTS, or a rapid group low point/high point 4. Follow up and plan how to respond to future severe distress -------------------------------------------------------------- -Check back in a day or two after the severe distress, if possible. Express care and find out if longer-term planning is needed. This is a great time to help someone make a plan to prevent and care for severe distress in the future. +Check back in a day or two after severe distress, if possible. Express care and find out if longer-term planning is needed. This is a great time to help someone make a plan to prevent and care for severe distress in the future. A good plan might include: @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Respect confidentiality. If you want to process the crisis with someone or invol Resources --------- -All hotlines are staffed 24 hours a day unless otherwise noted. We tried to exclude hotlines that nonconsensually involve police from this list. Ask before putting someone in crisis on the phone if the operator is ever required to involve police. +Hotlines are staffed 24 hours a day unless otherwise noted. We tried to exclude hotlines that nonconsensually involve police from this list. Ask before putting someone in crisis on the phone if the operator is ever required to involve police. Call the hotline and put the distressed person on the phone with the trained operator. She may want privacy during the conversation. Afterward, ask about her plan and if she needs help carrying it out. @@ -120,9 +120,10 @@ Warmlines are usually staffed by people with lived experience – who personally Info lines (like 311) just answer questions. -- **[https://www.warmline.org/](warmline.org)** is a national directory of peer-run warmlines. Save the number for your state in your phone. +- **[https://www.warmline.org/](warmline.org)** is a national directory of peer-run warmlines. Save the number for your state in your phone. If you don't like the warmline in your state, call another state. +- A Kentucky warm line is run by Participation Station: 859-252-0058 or 877-840-5167 - **Veteran Peer Support Warmline**: 1-877-927-8387 -- **Backline pregnancy options line** (pregnancy options counseling, and assistance accessing abortion care): 1-888-493-0092 +- **Backline pregnancy options line** (pregnancy options counseling and assistance accessing abortion care): 1-888-493-0092 - **Non-emergency services** (food pantries, shelters, etc.): 311 - **SGR Hotline** (sex, gender, and relationship questions, including about pleasure, dysphoria, STIs, or abuse): 415-989-7374 - **National LGBT Hotline** (for local resources): 1-888-843-4564
partial edit of "safety, healthcare, and morale" section
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 746e0a2..b4a1542 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ If someone's level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports poisoning himself, 2. Problem solve ----------------- - **Basic needs.** People in severe emotional distress have at least one unmet basic need. Prolonged lack of sleep is the most common cause of psychosis and suicidality. HALT is a basic needs check-in about the four things Alcoholics Anonymous members found can be taken care of to prevent relapse. Are you too: @@ -60,11 +59,17 @@ People in severe emotional distress have at least one unmet basic need. Prolonge **T**ired -Consider what excess or deficiency of each item feels like. “Lonely for others” is unmet need for empathy and human connection. What about “lonely for self” – inability to get personal space for too long? On the picket line or when someone has lost housing, “too cold” or “too wet” sometimes belongs on the list – hypothermia makes you tired. +Consider what excess or deficiency of each item feels like. “Lonely for others” is unmet need for empathy and human connection. What about “lonely for self” – inability to get personal space for too long? On the picket line or if someone lost housing, “too cold” or “too wet” belongs on the list – hypothermia makes you tired. HALT can structure how you explore options with someone who just fled abuse or got out of jail. When did she last eat? How will she get her next meal? Where will she sleep tonight? If she hasn’t been able to sleep, what activities or medications help her sleep? Who does she want get in touch with? How will she express her anger? -Reducing risk may involve getting permission to take someone’s gun to a friend’s house. She may want to have someone stay with her for the night, or go to a hospital, peer respite, or domestic violence shelter. If the person is dangerous to others, it is often easier to move other people away than to move her. You may need help to make the area around her safe. Look out for your own safety as well. +**Safety, healthcare, and morale.** + +Problem solving may involve getting permission to take someone’s gun to a friend’s house. She may want to have someone stay with her for the night, or go to a hospital, peer respite, or domestic violence shelter. + +If she hurt someone, help her contact someone qualified to hear the story and help her make amends. If the person is currently dangerous to others, it is often easier to move other people away than to move her. You may need help to make the area around her safe. Look out for your own safety as well. + +Sickness can change medication blood levels. 3. Recognize and respond to other distressed people ----------------------------------------------------
started on Problem Solve section edits
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index c40cac5..746e0a2 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -42,14 +42,15 @@ If someone says he wants to hurt himself or others, believe him. Limit questions - How? *(plan)* - *(If he says “with a gun”)* Do you have a gun? Where is it? *(means)* -If someone's level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports poisoning himself, he may need emergency interventions for poisoning such as recovery position, rescue breathing, naloxone, and hospital care. +If someone's level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports poisoning himself, he may need emergency interventions for poisoning such as recovery position, rescue breathing, naloxone, and hospital care. If he is very drunk or high, the possibility for connection may be delayed. -If he is very drunk or high, the possibility for connection may be delayed. +2. Problem solve +----------------- -2. Identify and meet basic needs. Reduce risk ---------------------------------------------- -Prolonged lack of sleep is the most common cause of psychosis and suicidality. HALT is a basic needs check-in about the four things Alcoholics Anonymous members found can be taken care of to prevent relapse. Are you too: +**Basic needs.** + +People in severe emotional distress have at least one unmet basic need. Prolonged lack of sleep is the most common cause of psychosis and suicidality. HALT is a basic needs check-in about the four things Alcoholics Anonymous members found can be taken care of to prevent relapse. Are you too: **H**ungry @@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ Prolonged lack of sleep is the most common cause of psychosis and suicidality. H **T**ired -Consider what excess or deficiency of each item feels like. “Lonely for others” is unmet need for empathy and human connection. What about “lonely for self” – inability to get personal space for too long? At street protests, “too cold” or “too wet” sometimes belongs on the list – hypothermia makes you tired. +Consider what excess or deficiency of each item feels like. “Lonely for others” is unmet need for empathy and human connection. What about “lonely for self” – inability to get personal space for too long? On the picket line or when someone has lost housing, “too cold” or “too wet” sometimes belongs on the list – hypothermia makes you tired. HALT can structure how you explore options with someone who just fled abuse or got out of jail. When did she last eat? How will she get her next meal? Where will she sleep tonight? If she hasn’t been able to sleep, what activities or medications help her sleep? Who does she want get in touch with? How will she express her anger?
cleaned up "connect about the situation" subsection and added "hurt others" conditional
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 2ddcacb..c40cac5 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -15,18 +15,26 @@ When a person experiences severe emotional distress, he may feel alone or afraid Some ways to establish emotional connection: - Be patient, kind, and attentive. -- Engage your empathy. try to feel what he is feeling with him. +- Engage your empathy. Try to feel what he is feeling with him. - Match his tone of voice, and make your voice slightly more gentle. - Repeat his words to him. Mirror motions and body language as you try to understand. - Sit or squat on his level. Try to make eye contact. - Listen calmly. Ask gentle questions to show you care and be sure you understand. - Life experiences and neurodiversity change how people connect. Connect in a way that works for the person. +It can damage your connection to think displays of severe distress are symptoms of illness. People in severe distress had something happen that felt threatening. They made sense of it and responded in a way that helped them survive. + Recognize your limits. Offer connection, not therapy. If a distressed person wants to tell traumatic stories, consider redirecting him to basic needs or helping him call a hotline with trained operators. **Connect about the situation.** -It can damage your connection to think displays of severe distress are symptoms of illness. People in severe distress had something happen that felt threatening. They made sense of it and responded in a way that helped them survive. +If someone says he was raped, abused, or is in danger, let him know you believe him: + +- I believe you. +- It’s not your fault. +- You have options. + +If someone tells you she hurt someone, pause. Decide how much you need to know. Consider legal implications. Then say what kind of details you will and won't listen to. Tell her if you will report anything she says. If someone says he wants to hurt himself or others, believe him. Limit questions, but ask directly about intent, plan, and means. For example: @@ -34,13 +42,9 @@ If someone says he wants to hurt himself or others, believe him. Limit questions - How? *(plan)* - *(If he says “with a gun”)* Do you have a gun? Where is it? *(means)* -If someone says he was raped, abused, or is in danger, let him know you believe him: - -- I believe you. -- It’s not your fault. -- You have options. +If someone's level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports poisoning himself, he may need emergency interventions for poisoning such as recovery position, rescue breathing, naloxone, and hospital care. -If someone is very high or drunk, the possibility for connection may be delayed until the follow-up call. If his level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports intentionally poisoning himself, he may need emergency interventions for poisoning such as recovery position, rescue breathing, naloxone, and hospital care. +If he is very drunk or high, the possibility for connection may be delayed. 2. Identify and meet basic needs. Reduce risk ---------------------------------------------
copyedit in intro
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 7a25372..2ddcacb 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ First response for extreme distress =================================== -Severe emotional distress can cause abrupt changes in thinking and behavior, hallucinations, or severe confusion. These changes may frighten the person experiencing them and the people around him. +Severe emotional distress can cause abrupt changes in thinking and behavior, hallucinations, or severe confusion. These changes may frighten the person experiencing them and people around him. If someone in emotional distress wants to hurt herself or others, or just caused or escaped violence, it is an emergency. Provide calm, focused attention immediately. As with any emergency, check breathing, stop any bleeding, and check for other physical injuries. Then **establish emotional connection**, **problem-solve**, **look around**, and **follow-up**.
cleaned up intro
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index dd16e5b..7a25372 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ First response for extreme distress =================================== -Severe emotional distress can cause abrupt changes in thinking and behavior, hallucinations, and severe confusion. It can be frightening for the person experiencing it and for the people around him. +Severe emotional distress can cause abrupt changes in thinking and behavior, hallucinations, or severe confusion. These changes may frighten the person experiencing them and the people around him. -If someone in severe emotional distress wants to hurt herself or others or just caused or escaped violence, it is an emergency. She needs calm, focused attention immediately. As with any emergency, try to check breathing, stop any bleeding, and check for other physical injuries. Then **establish emotional connection**, **problem-solve**, **look around**, and **follow-up**. +If someone in emotional distress wants to hurt herself or others, or just caused or escaped violence, it is an emergency. Provide calm, focused attention immediately. As with any emergency, check breathing, stop any bleeding, and check for other physical injuries. Then **establish emotional connection**, **problem-solve**, **look around**, and **follow-up**. 1. Connect with the person ---------------------------
resolved conflict
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index fb48ff0..dd16e5b 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -20,13 +20,7 @@ Some ways to establish emotional connection: - Repeat his words to him. Mirror motions and body language as you try to understand. - Sit or squat on his level. Try to make eye contact. - Listen calmly. Ask gentle questions to show you care and be sure you understand. -<<<<<<< HEAD -- Life experiences and neurodiversity change how people connect. Connect in a way that works for the person.[^1] - -[1]: See the pdf booklet [Tips for First Responders](http://www.cdd.unm.edu/other-disability-programs/first-responders/pdfs/fifth-edition-tips-sheet.pdf) on how to assist seniors and other people with assistive needs. -======= - Life experiences and neurodiversity change how people connect. Connect in a way that works for the person. ->>>>>>> 8cc405eec6180faa475b267a404f925dd3db3c03 Recognize your limits. Offer connection, not therapy. If a distressed person wants to tell traumatic stories, consider redirecting him to basic needs or helping him call a hotline with trained operators.
removed broken footnote
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index 99fe2ed..fb48ff0 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -20,9 +20,13 @@ Some ways to establish emotional connection: - Repeat his words to him. Mirror motions and body language as you try to understand. - Sit or squat on his level. Try to make eye contact. - Listen calmly. Ask gentle questions to show you care and be sure you understand. +<<<<<<< HEAD - Life experiences and neurodiversity change how people connect. Connect in a way that works for the person.[^1] [1]: See the pdf booklet [Tips for First Responders](http://www.cdd.unm.edu/other-disability-programs/first-responders/pdfs/fifth-edition-tips-sheet.pdf) on how to assist seniors and other people with assistive needs. +======= +- Life experiences and neurodiversity change how people connect. Connect in a way that works for the person. +>>>>>>> 8cc405eec6180faa475b267a404f925dd3db3c03 Recognize your limits. Offer connection, not therapy. If a distressed person wants to tell traumatic stories, consider redirecting him to basic needs or helping him call a hotline with trained operators.
Clarified intro and added neurodiversity point to "connect emotionally" subsection
diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn index fe3c404..99fe2ed 100644 --- a/extreme_distress.mdwn +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ First response for extreme distress =================================== -Abrupt changes in thinking, behavior, hallucinations, and severe confusion can be frightening for the person experiencing it, and also for the people around him. +Severe emotional distress can cause abrupt changes in thinking and behavior, hallucinations, and severe confusion. It can be frightening for the person experiencing it and for the people around him. -When someone in severe emotional distress wants to hurt herself or others, or has just been raped or fled domestic violence, it is an emergency. She needs calm, focused attention immediately. As with any emergency, try to check breathing, stop any bleeding, and check for other physical injuries. Then **establish emotional connection and recognize risk**, **problem-solve**, and **follow-up**. +If someone in severe emotional distress wants to hurt herself or others or just caused or escaped violence, it is an emergency. She needs calm, focused attention immediately. As with any emergency, try to check breathing, stop any bleeding, and check for other physical injuries. Then **establish emotional connection**, **problem-solve**, **look around**, and **follow-up**. -1. Connect and recognize risks ------------------------------- +1. Connect with the person +--------------------------- + +**Connect emotionally.** When a person experiences severe emotional distress, he may feel alone or afraid. He may have trouble understanding the world around him or feel others cannot understand him. Emotional connection is necessary for you and him to communicate and problem-solve. @@ -18,6 +20,13 @@ Some ways to establish emotional connection: - Repeat his words to him. Mirror motions and body language as you try to understand. - Sit or squat on his level. Try to make eye contact. - Listen calmly. Ask gentle questions to show you care and be sure you understand. +- Life experiences and neurodiversity change how people connect. Connect in a way that works for the person.[^1] + +[1]: See the pdf booklet [Tips for First Responders](http://www.cdd.unm.edu/other-disability-programs/first-responders/pdfs/fifth-edition-tips-sheet.pdf) on how to assist seniors and other people with assistive needs. + +Recognize your limits. Offer connection, not therapy. If a distressed person wants to tell traumatic stories, consider redirecting him to basic needs or helping him call a hotline with trained operators. + +**Connect about the situation.** It can damage your connection to think displays of severe distress are symptoms of illness. People in severe distress had something happen that felt threatening. They made sense of it and responded in a way that helped them survive. @@ -35,8 +44,6 @@ If someone says he was raped, abused, or is in danger, let him know you believe If someone is very high or drunk, the possibility for connection may be delayed until the follow-up call. If his level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports intentionally poisoning himself, he may need emergency interventions for poisoning such as recovery position, rescue breathing, naloxone, and hospital care. -Recognize your limits. Offer connection, not therapy. If a distressed person wants to tell traumatic stories, consider redirecting him to basic needs or helping him call a hotline with trained operators. - 2. Identify and meet basic needs. Reduce risk ---------------------------------------------
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diff --git a/extreme_distress.mdwn b/extreme_distress.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fe3c404 --- /dev/null +++ b/extreme_distress.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,115 @@ +First response for extreme distress +=================================== + +Abrupt changes in thinking, behavior, hallucinations, and severe confusion can be frightening for the person experiencing it, and also for the people around him. + +When someone in severe emotional distress wants to hurt herself or others, or has just been raped or fled domestic violence, it is an emergency. She needs calm, focused attention immediately. As with any emergency, try to check breathing, stop any bleeding, and check for other physical injuries. Then **establish emotional connection and recognize risk**, **problem-solve**, and **follow-up**. + +1. Connect and recognize risks +------------------------------ + +When a person experiences severe emotional distress, he may feel alone or afraid. He may have trouble understanding the world around him or feel others cannot understand him. Emotional connection is necessary for you and him to communicate and problem-solve. + +Some ways to establish emotional connection: + +- Be patient, kind, and attentive. +- Engage your empathy. try to feel what he is feeling with him. +- Match his tone of voice, and make your voice slightly more gentle. +- Repeat his words to him. Mirror motions and body language as you try to understand. +- Sit or squat on his level. Try to make eye contact. +- Listen calmly. Ask gentle questions to show you care and be sure you understand. + +It can damage your connection to think displays of severe distress are symptoms of illness. People in severe distress had something happen that felt threatening. They made sense of it and responded in a way that helped them survive. + +If someone says he wants to hurt himself or others, believe him. Limit questions, but ask directly about intent, plan, and means. For example: + +- Do you plan to kill yourself? *(intent)* +- How? *(plan)* +- *(If he says “with a gun”)* Do you have a gun? Where is it? *(means)* + +If someone says he was raped, abused, or is in danger, let him know you believe him: + +- I believe you. +- It’s not your fault. +- You have options. + +If someone is very high or drunk, the possibility for connection may be delayed until the follow-up call. If his level of responsiveness is lowered or he reports intentionally poisoning himself, he may need emergency interventions for poisoning such as recovery position, rescue breathing, naloxone, and hospital care. + +Recognize your limits. Offer connection, not therapy. If a distressed person wants to tell traumatic stories, consider redirecting him to basic needs or helping him call a hotline with trained operators. + +2. Identify and meet basic needs. Reduce risk +--------------------------------------------- + +Prolonged lack of sleep is the most common cause of psychosis and suicidality. HALT is a basic needs check-in about the four things Alcoholics Anonymous members found can be taken care of to prevent relapse. Are you too: + +**H**ungry + +**A**ngry + +**L**onely + +**T**ired + +Consider what excess or deficiency of each item feels like. “Lonely for others” is unmet need for empathy and human connection. What about “lonely for self” – inability to get personal space for too long? At street protests, “too cold” or “too wet” sometimes belongs on the list – hypothermia makes you tired. + +HALT can structure how you explore options with someone who just fled abuse or got out of jail. When did she last eat? How will she get her next meal? Where will she sleep tonight? If she hasn’t been able to sleep, what activities or medications help her sleep? Who does she want get in touch with? How will she express her anger? + +Reducing risk may involve getting permission to take someone’s gun to a friend’s house. She may want to have someone stay with her for the night, or go to a hospital, peer respite, or domestic violence shelter. If the person is dangerous to others, it is often easier to move other people away than to move her. You may need help to make the area around her safe. Look out for your own safety as well. + +3. Recognize and respond to other distressed people +---------------------------------------------------- + +Extreme distress is contagious. Recognize witnesses, family members, friends, people who have been harmed, or responders who are distressed. + +The basic recipe for crisis survival is have a buddy, ground, and do something. Sugar’s buddy check-in can take care of all three basic solutions at once. + +- Permission: “Today was a lot. Can we do a buddy check-in?” +- What did you do for yourself today? +- What do you need to do? + +Consider using Sugar’s check-in, HALTS, or a rapid group low point/high point debrief to recognize and engage good coping among people distressed by the extremely distressed person. + +4. Follow up and plan how to respond to future severe distress +-------------------------------------------------------------- + +Check back in a day or two after the severe distress, if possible. Express care and find out if longer-term planning is needed. This is a great time to help someone make a plan to prevent and care for severe distress in the future. + +A good plan might include: + +- What I do to stay well. +- How to tell I’m getting worse. +- What I should do if I’m getting worse. +- How to tell I’m in crisis. +- What to do when I’m in crisis. +- How to know I’m getting better. +- What I should do while I’m getting better. +- Who I want and don’t want involved. +- Medications, medical facilities, and providers that help or don’t help. + +Respect confidentiality. If you want to process the crisis with someone or involve someone in a person’s care, let him know who and what you will tell. It may be helpful to seek the help of spiritual or community leaders the person respects. Following up to see that he continues to get help, and to show that you care about him, is important. + +Resources +--------- + +All hotlines are staffed 24 hours a day unless otherwise noted. We tried to exclude hotlines that nonconsensually involve police from this list. Ask before putting someone in crisis on the phone if the operator is ever required to involve police. + +Call the hotline and put the distressed person on the phone with the trained operator. She may want privacy during the conversation. Afterward, ask about her plan and if she needs help carrying it out. + +- **National Domestic Violence Hotline** (fine to call in rape crisis, too): 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) +- **Poison Control Centers** (can identify poisons and talk you through overdose response): 1-800-222-1222 +- **Veterans Crisis Line**: 1-800-273-8255 +- **Suicide hotline** (connects you to local options): 1-800-784-2433 +- **Trans Lifeline** (9am-3am central time): 877-565-8860 and **Trevor Lifeline** (for LGBTQ youth): 1-866-488-7386 + +Warmlines are usually staffed by people with lived experience – who personally understand what you’re going through. They know about local options, including places that could board your pet for a few days or peer-run respites where you could stay with trained people with lived experience. They are happy to just listen. Most of them are not staffed 24 hours a day. Some have chat or email options. + +Info lines (like 311) just answer questions. + +- **[https://www.warmline.org/](warmline.org)** is a national directory of peer-run warmlines. Save the number for your state in your phone. +- **Veteran Peer Support Warmline**: 1-877-927-8387 +- **Backline pregnancy options line** (pregnancy options counseling, and assistance accessing abortion care): 1-888-493-0092 +- **Non-emergency services** (food pantries, shelters, etc.): 311 +- **SGR Hotline** (sex, gender, and relationship questions, including about pleasure, dysphoria, STIs, or abuse): 415-989-7374 +- **National LGBT Hotline** (for local resources): 1-888-843-4564 + +There are currently no hotlines or warmlines specifically for black or indigenous people experiencing severe distress, but there should be. See warmline.org for information about how to start a warmline.
added extreme distress
diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index 1ac4e57..127cf66 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ * 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.**
added handwashing
diff --git a/wounds.mdwn b/wounds.mdwn index 118c773..9f36cf8 100644 --- a/wounds.mdwn +++ b/wounds.mdwn @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ * *Protect yourself*. Do not get cut or shot while trying to help. Cover your hands with gloves or plastic bags before touching blood. * *Stop all bleeding.* Apply pressure to wound for at least 10 minutes and elevate injured area. * Help the person sit or lie down somewhere safe. Monitor for shock, a life-threatening condition that can result from severe bleeding. +* Wash your hands after removing gloves. **Signs of shock**
added caveat prioritizing hospital aftercare instructions; changed wait for advanced care to seek it immediately
diff --git a/wounds.mdwn b/wounds.mdwn index 496570c..118c773 100644 --- a/wounds.mdwn +++ b/wounds.mdwn @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ * You cannot stop bleeding. * The person is no longer alert. -## First-aid +## First aid * *Protect yourself*. Do not get cut or shot while trying to help. Cover your hands with gloves or plastic bags before touching blood. * *Stop all bleeding.* Apply pressure to wound for at least 10 minutes and elevate injured area. @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ * Weak, fast pulse. * Dropping blood pressure. -**First-aid for specific injuries** +**First aid for specific injuries** -* If *shot*, cover every entrance and exit wound with gauze and a gloved hand. Comfort and reassure while you wait for further care. +* If *shot*, cover every entrance and exit wound with gauze and a gloved hand. Comfort and reassure. Seek immediate emergency care. * To help someone through pain and fear, be calm and present, do not leave his side, get him to look into your eyes, talk to him, hold his hand and let him squeeze, massage his hand or arm, sing or chant slogans with him, or pray with him. * Even the person cannot respond, he can hear you and can be comforted. * Do not remove an *impaled object*; stabilize impaled object in place. Seek medical care. @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ ## Aftercare +*After hospital or urgent care, follow provider instructions, not instructions below.* + * *Keep wound clean.* Wash area gently with soap and water as wound heals. * When not washing, keep wound area dry. You can put honey on wound to encourage healing (change honey dressing at least twice daily). Cover with dry sterile gauze pad or clean cloth. * Change dressing at least daily or whenever dressing becomes wet or dirty.
Changed ssb for briar, rm telegram, whatsapp, keybase due to security concerns
diff --git a/stay_safe_in_the_streets.mdwn b/stay_safe_in_the_streets.mdwn index 740d99d..dd16d9a 100644 --- a/stay_safe_in_the_streets.mdwn +++ b/stay_safe_in_the_streets.mdwn @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Unite with people from your neighborhood, school, church, or other affinity grou Make sure your phone is charged and you have service. * Trade social media handles with other groups like yours. Verify rumors and support each other. -* Use encrypted chat apps (signal, [manyverse](https://www.manyver.se/), [element](https://element.io/), keybase, whatsapp, telegram). +* Use encrypted chat apps (signal, [briar](https://briarproject.org/), [element](https://element.io/)). * Keep emergency contacts and essential information on paper and in your phone. Your phone may get taken, lost, or broken. * Everyone must know what to do in case of problems and where to go (nearest hospital, home of a relative, etc).
Shortened medical providers sec
diff --git a/ethics_proposal.mdwn b/ethics_proposal.mdwn index a3eb6e8..dc195a4 100644 --- a/ethics_proposal.mdwn +++ b/ethics_proposal.mdwn @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ See also: [[medic_ethics_guidelines]]. [[How medical providers can help protesters]]: -Because they work outside of medical institutions, each action medical worker is personally responsible for establishing and maintaining appropriate clinical boundaries in the street. How health workers carry social authority may cause some people to cling to them and others to be afraid of them and refuse care. +Because they work outside of medical institutions, each action medical worker is personally responsible for establishing and maintaining appropriate clinical boundaries in the street. A protest [[first aid team]]:
added source, did a little reformatting
diff --git a/online_trainings.mdwn b/online_trainings.mdwn index ba8b004..8dccc08 100644 --- a/online_trainings.mdwn +++ b/online_trainings.mdwn @@ -15,13 +15,13 @@ **Training for medical professionals interested in protest first aid** * [Do No Harm Coalition--Street Medic Bridge Training for Medical Professionals 6/4/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-TrRuRoWs) (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]].* + * *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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puJ802SddY4) (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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwz7IG_I9U) (on youtube): workshop with Rachel Gilmer, Helen Peña, and Dr. Armen Henderson (Dream Defenders), Amika Tendaji (Ujimaa Medics), Mariame Kaba (Project NIA), Dean Spade (Seattle University School of Law) about 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 +* ["Mutual Aid" is a People's Movement 4/22/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwz7IG_I9U) (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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMT_rqZjIgA) (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 @@ -30,3 +30,8 @@ Think about what you're training for. The following links might help. * [[First aid team]]. * [In all seriousness: first aid](https://huntgathermedicine.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/in-all-seriousness-first-aid/) (offsite link) by Anne Amnesia. + +## Source + +Link curation by A. Grace Keller. Used with permission. [[CC BY-SA]]. +
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diff --git a/first_aid_guide.mdwn b/first_aid_guide.mdwn index 198dcbf..e98f72e 100644 --- a/first_aid_guide.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_guide.mdwn @@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ ## Source -Written by A. Grace Keller. Used with permission. [[CC BY-SA]]. +Link curation and opinions by A. Grace Keller. Used with permission. [[CC BY-SA]].
removed " Interpreters were paid their standard rate. " to decrease word count
diff --git a/online_trainings.mdwn b/online_trainings.mdwn index 7e142e7..ba8b004 100644 --- a/online_trainings.mdwn +++ b/online_trainings.mdwn @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ **Protest health and safety** * [Protest health and safety training 6/4/20](https://www.facebook.com/damn2017/videos/573698503564138/?v=573698503564138) (on facebook) by Denver Action Medical Network. -* [Protest health and safety training with ASL interpreter 6/2/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKbvuL7gNQ) (on youtube) by Boston Medics. [Handouts](tinyurl.com/phshandouts). [Donation link](https://checkout.square.site/pay/8ce6ea7aa5d24a63adf497a3ece5fd8e). Interpreters were paid their standard rate. +* [Protest health and safety training with ASL interpreter 6/2/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKbvuL7gNQ) (on youtube) by Boston Medics. [Handouts](tinyurl.com/phshandouts). [Donation link](https://checkout.square.site/pay/8ce6ea7aa5d24a63adf497a3ece5fd8e). * Teach your own by modifying this [outline for a three hour health and safety training](http://agk.wikidot.com/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline) ([pdf version](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline/healthsafety-outline.pdf)). Some material from it is used in video trainings above. **Training for medical professionals interested in protest first aid**
diff --git a/online_trainings.mdwn b/online_trainings.mdwn index fb8402a..7e142e7 100644 --- a/online_trainings.mdwn +++ b/online_trainings.mdwn @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ## Live trainings -* Sign-ups for live trainings are offered on [NYC Action Medics fb page](https://www.facebook.com/NYCactionmedical/). +* Sign-ups for live trainings are sometimes offered on [NYC Action Medics fb page](https://www.facebook.com/NYCactionmedical/). ## Recorded trainings
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diff --git a/first_aid_guide.mdwn b/first_aid_guide.mdwn index 31b9846..198dcbf 100644 --- a/first_aid_guide.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_guide.mdwn @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ * Be careful: This book is extremely anti-herbal medicine and anti-acupuncture. * Be careful: this book recommends using tampons for menstruation during protest, which may cause toxic shock syndrome if left in for too long (ie. during long action or arrest). Pads are a safer alternative. * [Street Medic Handbook for Occupy Chicago and the mobilization against the 2012 NATO summit](http://www.paperrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Street-Medic-Handbook-Occupy-Chicago-2012.pdf) (pdf) and [Chicago Action Medical Street Medic Handbook (Dec 2013)](https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kupdf.net_street-medic-handbook.pdf) (pdf) were written by Chicago street medics and are widely shared online. - * Much of the material is these guides has been simplified, focused, and in some ways updated since they were written, for example on this website. + * Much of the material is these guides has been simplified, focused, and in some ways updated, for example on this website. * The resources at the top of this page teach first aid more effectively. * Like Riot Medicine, these are interesting and educational reads, as long as they are supplemented with better first aid guides.
tagged pdf as pdf
diff --git a/first_aid_guide.mdwn b/first_aid_guide.mdwn index ad394ec..31b9846 100644 --- a/first_aid_guide.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_guide.mdwn @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ * Be careful: There are some advanced interventions. When in doubt, get help by taking someone to a hospital, urgent care, or family physician. * Be careful: This book is extremely anti-herbal medicine and anti-acupuncture. * Be careful: this book recommends using tampons for menstruation during protest, which may cause toxic shock syndrome if left in for too long (ie. during long action or arrest). Pads are a safer alternative. -* [Street Medic Handbook for Occupy Chicago and the mobilization against the 2012 NATO summit](http://www.paperrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Street-Medic-Handbook-Occupy-Chicago-2012.pdf) (pdf) and [Chicago Action Medical Street Medic Handbook (Dec 2013)](https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kupdf.net_street-medic-handbook.pdf) were written by Chicago street medics and are widely shared online. +* [Street Medic Handbook for Occupy Chicago and the mobilization against the 2012 NATO summit](http://www.paperrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Street-Medic-Handbook-Occupy-Chicago-2012.pdf) (pdf) and [Chicago Action Medical Street Medic Handbook (Dec 2013)](https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kupdf.net_street-medic-handbook.pdf) (pdf) were written by Chicago street medics and are widely shared online. * Much of the material is these guides has been simplified, focused, and in some ways updated since they were written, for example on this website. * The resources at the top of this page teach first aid more effectively. * Like Riot Medicine, these are interesting and educational reads, as long as they are supplemented with better first aid guides.
added cam handbooks
diff --git a/first_aid_guide.mdwn b/first_aid_guide.mdwn index 0c6b231..ad394ec 100644 --- a/first_aid_guide.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_guide.mdwn @@ -17,11 +17,15 @@ ## Guides to use with caution -* [Riot Medicine](https://riotmedicine.net/) (by a Trotskyist/antifa affiliated Turkish-European street medic) covers similar territory to Buck Tilton's *Backcountry First Aid*. Some of the best information is in parts I (Organize) and IV (Tactics). +* [Riot Medicine](https://riotmedicine.net/) (by a Trotskyist/antifa affiliated Turkish-European street medic) (pdf) covers similar territory to Buck Tilton's *Backcountry First Aid*. Some of the best information is in parts I (Organize) and IV (Tactics). * Be careful: This book promotes machismo. * Be careful: There are some advanced interventions. When in doubt, get help by taking someone to a hospital, urgent care, or family physician. * Be careful: This book is extremely anti-herbal medicine and anti-acupuncture. * Be careful: this book recommends using tampons for menstruation during protest, which may cause toxic shock syndrome if left in for too long (ie. during long action or arrest). Pads are a safer alternative. +* [Street Medic Handbook for Occupy Chicago and the mobilization against the 2012 NATO summit](http://www.paperrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Street-Medic-Handbook-Occupy-Chicago-2012.pdf) (pdf) and [Chicago Action Medical Street Medic Handbook (Dec 2013)](https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kupdf.net_street-medic-handbook.pdf) were written by Chicago street medics and are widely shared online. + * Much of the material is these guides has been simplified, focused, and in some ways updated since they were written, for example on this website. + * The resources at the top of this page teach first aid more effectively. + * Like Riot Medicine, these are interesting and educational reads, as long as they are supplemented with better first aid guides. ## Source
added note on cost of cse and digitization project
diff --git a/first_aid_guide.mdwn b/first_aid_guide.mdwn index 6da8452..0c6b231 100644 --- a/first_aid_guide.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_guide.mdwn @@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ ## Other health guides for use in protest -* [Minor Emergencies](https://bookshop.org/books/minor-emergencies/9780323079099) ([buy it from a local bookstore](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780323079099)) by Buttaravoli and Leffler is an excellent urgent-care reference, which includes assessment of common police-caused injuries, such as handcuff neuropathy. +* [Minor Emergencies](https://bookshop.org/books/minor-emergencies/9780323079099) ([buy it from a local bookstore](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780323079099)) by Buttaravoli and Leffler is an excellent (but expensive) urgent-care reference, which includes assessment of common police-caused injuries, such as handcuff neuropathy. * Be careful: This book is for physicians and contains advanced interventions. When in doubt, get help by taking someone to a hospital, urgent care, or family physician. + * An earlier edition will be online for free before 2021, and linked to from here. * [Where There Is No Doctor](https://store.hesperian.org/prod/Where_There_Is_No_Doctor.html) ([buy it from a local bookstore](https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780942364156)) is a general health book with a great index and very useful differential guides, especially for [cough](https://hesperian.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en_wtnd_2017/en_wtnd_2017_13.pdf) (p. 168), [back pain](https://hesperian.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en_wtnd_2017/en_wtnd_2017_13.pdf) (p. 173), [infection](https://en.hesperian.org/hhg/New_Where_There_Is_No_Doctor:Infection) (p. 88), and [skin problems](https://hesperian.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/en_wtnd_2017/en_wtnd_2017_15.pdf) (p. 193-198) * Be careful: This book was written for global health. Minimally-trained people might suspect conditions that are highly unlikely in their area.
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diff --git a/online_trainings.mdwn b/online_trainings.mdwn index e3c5932..fb8402a 100644 --- a/online_trainings.mdwn +++ b/online_trainings.mdwn @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ * [Protest health and safety training with ASL interpreter 6/2/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKbvuL7gNQ) (on youtube) by Boston Medics. [Handouts](tinyurl.com/phshandouts). [Donation link](https://checkout.square.site/pay/8ce6ea7aa5d24a63adf497a3ece5fd8e). Interpreters were paid their standard rate. * Teach your own by modifying this [outline for a three hour health and safety training](http://agk.wikidot.com/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline) ([pdf version](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline/healthsafety-outline.pdf)). Some material from it is used in video trainings above. -**Bridge training for medical professionals interested in protest first aid** +**Training for medical professionals interested in protest first aid** * [Do No Harm Coalition--Street Medic Bridge Training for Medical Professionals 6/4/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-TrRuRoWs) (on youtube) by Appalachian Medical Solidarity streetmedic Noah Morris and UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine Rupa Marya.
added mutual aid section
diff --git a/online_trainings.mdwn b/online_trainings.mdwn index b1a7e32..e3c5932 100644 --- a/online_trainings.mdwn +++ b/online_trainings.mdwn @@ -12,12 +12,18 @@ * [Protest health and safety training with ASL interpreter 6/2/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKbvuL7gNQ) (on youtube) by Boston Medics. [Handouts](tinyurl.com/phshandouts). [Donation link](https://checkout.square.site/pay/8ce6ea7aa5d24a63adf497a3ece5fd8e). Interpreters were paid their standard rate. * Teach your own by modifying this [outline for a three hour health and safety training](http://agk.wikidot.com/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline) ([pdf version](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline/healthsafety-outline.pdf)). Some material from it is used in video trainings above. -**Bridge training for medical professionals** +**Bridge training for medical professionals interested in protest first aid** -* [Do No Harm Coalition--Street Medic Bridge Training for Medical Professionals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-TrRuRoWs) (on youtube) by Appalachian Medical Solidarity streetmedic Noah Morris and UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine Rupa Marya. +* [Do No Harm Coalition--Street Medic Bridge Training for Medical Professionals 6/4/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-TrRuRoWs) (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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puJ802SddY4) (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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwz7IG_I9U) (on youtube): workshop with Rachel Gilmer, Helen Peña, and Dr. Armen Henderson (Dream Defenders), Amika Tendaji (Ujimaa Medics), Mariame Kaba (Project NIA), Dean Spade (Seattle University School of Law) about 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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMT_rqZjIgA) (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.
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diff --git a/online_trainings.mdwn b/online_trainings.mdwn index 40204ab..b1a7e32 100644 --- a/online_trainings.mdwn +++ b/online_trainings.mdwn @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ * [Protest health and safety training 6/4/20](https://www.facebook.com/damn2017/videos/573698503564138/?v=573698503564138) (on facebook) by Denver Action Medical Network. * [Protest health and safety training with ASL interpreter 6/2/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKbvuL7gNQ) (on youtube) by Boston Medics. [Handouts](tinyurl.com/phshandouts). [Donation link](https://checkout.square.site/pay/8ce6ea7aa5d24a63adf497a3ece5fd8e). Interpreters were paid their standard rate. -* Teach your by modifying [this outline for a three hour health and safety training](http://agk.wikidot.com/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline) ([pdf version](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline/healthsafety-outline.pdf)). Some material from it is used in video trainings above. +* Teach your own by modifying this [outline for a three hour health and safety training](http://agk.wikidot.com/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline) ([pdf version](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline/healthsafety-outline.pdf)). Some material from it is used in video trainings above. **Bridge training for medical professionals**
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diff --git a/online_trainings.mdwn b/online_trainings.mdwn index 5441de0..40204ab 100644 --- a/online_trainings.mdwn +++ b/online_trainings.mdwn @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ * [Protest health and safety training 6/4/20](https://www.facebook.com/damn2017/videos/573698503564138/?v=573698503564138) (on facebook) by Denver Action Medical Network. * [Protest health and safety training with ASL interpreter 6/2/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKbvuL7gNQ) (on youtube) by Boston Medics. [Handouts](tinyurl.com/phshandouts). [Donation link](https://checkout.square.site/pay/8ce6ea7aa5d24a63adf497a3ece5fd8e). Interpreters were paid their standard rate. -* Teach your own health and safety training by modifying [this outline for a three hour health and safety training](http://agk.wikidot.com/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline) ([pdf version](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline/healthsafety-outline.pdf)). Some material from it is used in the video trainings above. +* Teach your by modifying [this outline for a three hour health and safety training](http://agk.wikidot.com/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline) ([pdf version](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline/healthsafety-outline.pdf)). Some material from it is used in video trainings above. **Bridge training for medical professionals**
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diff --git a/online_trainings.mdwn b/online_trainings.mdwn index d2d52bf..5441de0 100644 --- a/online_trainings.mdwn +++ b/online_trainings.mdwn @@ -10,12 +10,13 @@ * [Protest health and safety training 6/4/20](https://www.facebook.com/damn2017/videos/573698503564138/?v=573698503564138) (on facebook) by Denver Action Medical Network. * [Protest health and safety training with ASL interpreter 6/2/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKbvuL7gNQ) (on youtube) by Boston Medics. [Handouts](tinyurl.com/phshandouts). [Donation link](https://checkout.square.site/pay/8ce6ea7aa5d24a63adf497a3ece5fd8e). Interpreters were paid their standard rate. +* Teach your own health and safety training by modifying [this outline for a three hour health and safety training](http://agk.wikidot.com/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline) ([pdf version](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/blog:ferguson-health-promotion-training-outline/healthsafety-outline.pdf)). Some material from it is used in the video trainings above. **Bridge training for medical professionals** * [Do No Harm Coalition--Street Medic Bridge Training for Medical Professionals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-TrRuRoWs) (on youtube) by Appalachian Medical Solidarity streetmedic Noah Morris and UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine Rupa Marya. -*This training includes good information on care for riot control agent exposure and environmental awareness in civil unrest. Many local street medics do not feel this training is adequate as a standalone bridge. Talk to your local street medics about supplementing and challenging parts of it. Consider the variety of ways [[how medical providers can help protesters]].* +*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]].* ## Note on first aid and emergency training
added denver, modified warning on dnh training
diff --git a/online_trainings.mdwn b/online_trainings.mdwn index ce2d0ca..d2d52bf 100644 --- a/online_trainings.mdwn +++ b/online_trainings.mdwn @@ -8,13 +8,14 @@ **Protest health and safety** +* [Protest health and safety training 6/4/20](https://www.facebook.com/damn2017/videos/573698503564138/?v=573698503564138) (on facebook) by Denver Action Medical Network. * [Protest health and safety training with ASL interpreter 6/2/20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKbvuL7gNQ) (on youtube) by Boston Medics. [Handouts](tinyurl.com/phshandouts). [Donation link](https://checkout.square.site/pay/8ce6ea7aa5d24a63adf497a3ece5fd8e). Interpreters were paid their standard rate. **Bridge training for medical professionals** -* [Do No Harm Coalition--Street Medic Bridge Training for Medical Professionals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-TrRuRoWs) (on youtube) by Street Medic Noah Morris and UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine Rupa Marya. +* [Do No Harm Coalition--Street Medic Bridge Training for Medical Professionals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV-TrRuRoWs) (on youtube) by Appalachian Medical Solidarity streetmedic Noah Morris and UCSF Associate Professor of Medicine Rupa Marya. -*Talk to your local street medics about whether they feel this bridge is adequate. They will have local content they want to review with you, and will want to pair you with experienced medics. Medic collectives are overwhelmed with medical professionals who want to work with them. They prioritize needs of communities they serve, not needs of communities who want to serve. Consider the variety of ways [[how medical providers can help protesters]].* +*This training includes good information on care for riot control agent exposure and environmental awareness in civil unrest. Many local street medics do not feel this training is adequate as a standalone bridge. Talk to your local street medics about supplementing and challenging parts of it. Consider the variety of ways [[how medical providers can help protesters]].* ## Note on first aid and emergency training
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diff --git a/tmp-anti.mdwn b/tmp-anti.mdwn index 834b55a..a2cea0a 100644 --- a/tmp-anti.mdwn +++ b/tmp-anti.mdwn @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ * Whenever possible we support union shops, goods and services that decentralize human relations, and makers that actively oppose monopoly capitalism. * Public presence: We have a [Wordpress website](https://chicagoactionmedical.wordpress.com/). * Email: We use riseup [instead of Gmail](https://switching.software/replace/gmail/) for email. - * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. + * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, Discord, Slack, and SMS. * We could easily change some practices to be more consistent with our politics. * Chat: We use GroupMe for chat. It is owned by Microsoft and does not end-to-end encrypt messages. Messages can be accessed by police and hackers, may be kept indefinitely by Microsoft for research and marketing, and may be sold. It is has permission to access contacts. There are spam, hacking, and server uptime issues. Good alternatives use end to end encryption with [XMPP or Matrix](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) messaging protocols.
diff --git a/tmp-anti.mdwn b/tmp-anti.mdwn index 7e3aa81..834b55a 100644 --- a/tmp-anti.mdwn +++ b/tmp-anti.mdwn @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. * We could easily change some practices to be more consistent with our politics. - * Chat: We use GroupMe for chat. It is owned by Microsoft and does not encrypt messages. Plaintext messages can be captured easily with inexpensive equipment by police or casual hackers. There are often spam, hacking, and server uptime issues. Good alternatives use end to end encryption with [XMPP or Matrix](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) messaging protocols. + * Chat: We use GroupMe for chat. It is owned by Microsoft and does not end-to-end encrypt messages. Messages can be accessed by police and hackers, may be kept indefinitely by Microsoft for research and marketing, and may be sold. It is has permission to access contacts. There are spam, hacking, and server uptime issues. Good alternatives use end to end encryption with [XMPP or Matrix](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) messaging protocols. * Scheduling: We could use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. * Surveys: We could use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. * We videoconference using Zoom. Free Zoom records, transcribes, uses AI to analyze, and monetizes conferences. Paid Zoom and [alternatives like Jitsi Meet](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) respect user privacy.
more notes on groupme
diff --git a/tmp-anti.mdwn b/tmp-anti.mdwn index dde9eb6..7e3aa81 100644 --- a/tmp-anti.mdwn +++ b/tmp-anti.mdwn @@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. * We could easily change some practices to be more consistent with our politics. - * Chat: We use GroupMe for chat. - * *Good alternatives use [XMPP, Matrix](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) or [email](https://delta.chat) messaging protocols.* + * Chat: We use GroupMe for chat. It is owned by Microsoft and does not encrypt messages. Plaintext messages can be captured easily with inexpensive equipment by police or casual hackers. There are often spam, hacking, and server uptime issues. Good alternatives use end to end encryption with [XMPP or Matrix](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) messaging protocols. * Scheduling: We could use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. * Surveys: We could use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. * We videoconference using Zoom. Free Zoom records, transcribes, uses AI to analyze, and monetizes conferences. Paid Zoom and [alternatives like Jitsi Meet](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) respect user privacy.
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diff --git a/tmp-anti.mdwn b/tmp-anti.mdwn index d21854c..dde9eb6 100644 --- a/tmp-anti.mdwn +++ b/tmp-anti.mdwn @@ -15,25 +15,26 @@ **Internally** * Whenever possible we support union shops, goods and services that decentralize human relations, and makers that actively oppose monopoly capitalism. - * Public presence: We have a Wordpress website and a DialPad phone number. + * Public presence: We have a [Wordpress website](https://chicagoactionmedical.wordpress.com/). * Email: We use riseup [instead of Gmail](https://switching.software/replace/gmail/) for email. - * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, GroupMe, and slack. - * Scheduling: We use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. - * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet or other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. Zoom's paid service is cool, though. - * Surveys: We use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. - * Productivity: We temporarily use [pad.riseup.net](https://pad.riseup.net/) instead of Google Docs. We may migrate to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/) from Dropbox and Google Docs/Drive. - * Logistics: We use the USPS and order directly from producers or sellers when possible. We avoid Amazon and app-based delivery services. - -* However, relationships come first. We use non-union, centralized, or monopoly capitalist services when necessary to build and maintain relationships with protesters. + * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. + +* We could easily change some practices to be more consistent with our politics. + * Chat: We use GroupMe for chat. + * *Good alternatives use [XMPP, Matrix](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) or [email](https://delta.chat) messaging protocols.* + * Scheduling: We could use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. + * Surveys: We could use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. + * We videoconference using Zoom. Free Zoom records, transcribes, uses AI to analyze, and monetizes conferences. Paid Zoom and [alternatives like Jitsi Meet](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) respect user privacy. + * Productivity: We could use [pad.riseup.net](https://pad.riseup.net/) instead of Google Docs. A bigger project would be to migrate to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/) from Dropbox and Google Docs/Drive. + * Logistics: We could use the USPS and order directly from producers or sellers when possible, avoiding Amazon and app-based delivery services. + * Our phone services are provided by DialPad, a VC-backed cloud services company founded in 2010 that records and uses AI to transcribe and analyze all conversations. It also accepts voice commands. *Investigate alternatives.* + * We use mailchimp for our newsletter. *Investigate this choice.* + +* Relationships come first. We use non-union, centralized, or monopoly capitalist services when necessary to build and maintain relationships with protesters. * We have facebook, twitter, and instagram accounts. *Twitter account is suspended.* * *We could bridge our social media accounts to our website with [IndieWeb plugins](https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started_on_WordPress), allowing people without social media, or with concerns about tracking, to interact with and follow our feeds at our WordPress*. - * We use mailchimp for our newsletter. - * We use GroupMe for chat. - * *Good alternatives use [XMPP, Matrix](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) or [email](https://delta.chat) messaging protocols.* * We use Dropbox and Google Drive. * *We should consider switching to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/).* - * Our phone services are provided by DialPad, a VC-backed cloud services company founded in 2010 that records and uses AI to transcribe and analyze all conversations. It also accepts voice commands. - * We videoconference using Zoom. Free Zoom records, transcribes, uses AI to analyze, and monetizes conferences. Paid Zoom and [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) respect user privacy. <!-- * We might start to self-host: * public static webpage, blog/wiki, image gallery (llgal or zoph), pdf hosting, and gemini server.
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diff --git a/tmp-anti.mdwn b/tmp-anti.mdwn index 12d0812..d21854c 100644 --- a/tmp-anti.mdwn +++ b/tmp-anti.mdwn @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ * However, relationships come first. We use non-union, centralized, or monopoly capitalist services when necessary to build and maintain relationships with protesters. * We have facebook, twitter, and instagram accounts. *Twitter account is suspended.* - * *We could bridge social media accounts to federated [mastodon](https://switching.software/replace/twitter/) and [pixelfed](https://switching.software/replace/instagram/) accounts.* + * *We could bridge our social media accounts to our website with [IndieWeb plugins](https://indieweb.org/Getting_Started_on_WordPress), allowing people without social media, or with concerns about tracking, to interact with and follow our feeds at our WordPress*. * We use mailchimp for our newsletter. * We use GroupMe for chat. * *Good alternatives use [XMPP, Matrix](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) or [email](https://delta.chat) messaging protocols.*
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diff --git a/tmp-anti.mdwn b/tmp-anti.mdwn index 3bf86ee..12d0812 100644 --- a/tmp-anti.mdwn +++ b/tmp-anti.mdwn @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ **Internally** * Whenever possible we support union shops, goods and services that decentralize human relations, and makers that actively oppose monopoly capitalism. - * Public presence: We have a Wordpress website and a (what service?) phone number. + * Public presence: We have a Wordpress website and a DialPad phone number. * Email: We use riseup [instead of Gmail](https://switching.software/replace/gmail/) for email. * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, GroupMe, and slack. * Scheduling: We use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ * *Good alternatives use [XMPP, Matrix](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) or [email](https://delta.chat) messaging protocols.* * We use Dropbox and Google Drive. * *We should consider switching to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/).* + * Our phone services are provided by DialPad, a VC-backed cloud services company founded in 2010 that records and uses AI to transcribe and analyze all conversations. It also accepts voice commands. + * We videoconference using Zoom. Free Zoom records, transcribes, uses AI to analyze, and monetizes conferences. Paid Zoom and [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) respect user privacy. <!-- * We might start to self-host: * public static webpage, blog/wiki, image gallery (llgal or zoph), pdf hosting, and gemini server.
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diff --git a/index.mdwn b/index.mdwn index ea8b295..1ac4e57 100644 --- a/index.mdwn +++ b/index.mdwn @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ **Before cops or situations isolate you, get a buddy.** * Choose a buddy with [[PEARL]] interview. -* Stay safe in a crowd with [360 buddy vision](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/trainings%3A_start/buddyvision-draft-200624) (image). +* Stay safe in a crowd with [360 buddy vision](http://agk.wdfiles.com/local--files/trainings%3A_start/buddyvision-draft-200731) (image). * Watch for dangers, opportunities, and exits. **If anxiety, fear, or excitement might dissociate you, ground.**
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diff --git a/tmp.mdwn b/tmp.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9231000 --- /dev/null +++ b/tmp.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* [[tmp-poled]] +* [[tmp-manifesto]] +* [[tmp-anti]]
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diff --git a/tmp-poled.mdwn b/tmp-poled.mdwn index 282a43c..b0bd258 100644 --- a/tmp-poled.mdwn +++ b/tmp-poled.mdwn @@ -77,7 +77,4 @@ Supplementary (optional) reading: * Time-series visualizations by country and US state, @profwade_ (University of Illinois). Check mortality before freaking about new cases. * COVID19 Projections, @youyanggu (MIT '15). Currently the most accurate projections of future cases and deaths, organized by country, US state, and select US counties. * Naked Capitalism curates a wealth of links at 9 AM and 2 PM daily. -* Moon of Alabama publishes well-sourced analysis every few days, mostly on coronavirus and war. - - -* +* Moon of Alabama publishes well-sourced analysis every few days, mostly on coronavirus and war.
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diff --git a/tmp-poled.mdwn b/tmp-poled.mdwn index 6d1eea6..282a43c 100644 --- a/tmp-poled.mdwn +++ b/tmp-poled.mdwn @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Main reading: Chapter 4 of *Pedagogy of the Oppressed* Supplementary (optional) reading: * David Werner's "Looking at How Human Relations Affect Health" from *Helping Health Workers Learn*. -* "But Why?" stories from *Helping Heathe Workers Learn* and *Where Women Have No Doctor*. +* "But Why?" stories from *Helping Health Workers Learn* and *Where Women Have No Doctor*. * Selections from Kathy Boudin's prison writings and Jane Vella's books. * The 'Appeal' Handbook for Field Activists (from India).
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diff --git a/tmp-poled.mdwn b/tmp-poled.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d1eea6 --- /dev/null +++ b/tmp-poled.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +## Paolo Friere's educational marxist humanism + +Main reading: Chapter 4 of *Pedagogy of the Oppressed* + +Supplementary (optional) reading: + +* David Werner's "Looking at How Human Relations Affect Health" from *Helping Health Workers Learn*. +* "But Why?" stories from *Helping Heathe Workers Learn* and *Where Women Have No Doctor*. +* Selections from Kathy Boudin's prison writings and Jane Vella's books. +* The 'Appeal' Handbook for Field Activists (from India). + +Topics: + +* What happens to people in protest? How might protest change them/us? +* What is an ethics for street medics and what can we do to promote health and advance liberation? +* How should street medics teach health and safety trainings, affinity group medic trainings, and street medic trainings, and how should we guide apprentice medics? +* What does racism do in protest, and what can we do about it? +* What is the relationship between the politics of protest care workers and the politics of protesters? +* How do professionals participate in oppression and liberation, in and out of their workplaces? + +## Gillian Rose's hegelian sociology + +Main reading: "Athens and Jerusalem: A Tale of Three Cities" from *Mourning Becomes The Law* + +Supplementary (optional) reading: + +* Something about recognition and misrecognition +* Something on Zizek's or Lacan's symbolic, imaginary, and real +* Something on capabilities, vulnerability, and disability? +* Agnes Heller on trauma + +Topics: + +* What is oppressive about the community, and liberating about the law? +* What is the relationship between collective grief and rage and justice? +* How should we take action for justice when we're privileged of an oppressive system? +* What is the ethical relationship between street medics and victims of totalizing violence? +* How does trauma wound and how does it heal, personally and politically? +* How is protest care work political? + +## Frantz Fanon and the critique of the professional-managerial class + +Main Reading: "The Medical Committee for Human Rights: A Case Study in the Self-Liquidation of the New Left" by Rhonda Kotelchuk and Howard Levy + +Supplementary (optional) reading: + +* Frantz Fanon's "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness" from *The Wretched of the Earth*. +* Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich's "Death of a Yuppie Dream: The Rise and Fall of the Professional-Managerial Class". +* Joel Kotkin's *The New Class War*. +* Michael Lind's "The Double Horseshoe Theory of Class Politics". +* The American Nurses Association's "Physicians and Unions: Implications for Registered Nurses" + +Topics: + +* What is the professional-managerial class (PMC)? +* How do professionals and managers maintain racism? +* What are the political situations of professionals and managers in nonprofits, local (black) businesses, politics, entertainment, and health care? +* How is solidarity not charity? +* Why are there street medics? +* What are the political possibilities of organized health care workers? + +## Ibn Khaldun's history of violence and trust + +Main reading: A Political Medicine: Trust and Power in the Ferguson Uprising + +Supplementary (optional) reading: + +* Selections from *The Muqaddimah* by Ibn Khaldun +* excerpt from *Solidarity Not Biomedicine* by Rachel Judith Stern +* "Radicalizing Care: Street Medics and Solidarity" by Riley Clare Valentine + +## Additional supplementary reading + +* David Dayen's COVID-19 daily reports (The American Prospect), updates daily at 11 AM. +* Weekly Shift (Politico) updates Mondays at 10 AM with labor, employment, and immigration news. +* Visualizations of global pandemic situation, @jburnmurdoch (Financial Times) +* Time-series visualizations by country and US state, @profwade_ (University of Illinois). Check mortality before freaking about new cases. +* COVID19 Projections, @youyanggu (MIT '15). Currently the most accurate projections of future cases and deaths, organized by country, US state, and select US counties. +* Naked Capitalism curates a wealth of links at 9 AM and 2 PM daily. +* Moon of Alabama publishes well-sourced analysis every few days, mostly on coronavirus and war. + + +*
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diff --git a/tmp-anti.mdwn b/tmp-anti.mdwn index 4bad693..3bf86ee 100644 --- a/tmp-anti.mdwn +++ b/tmp-anti.mdwn @@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet or other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. Zoom's paid service is cool, though. * Surveys: We use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. * Productivity: We temporarily use [pad.riseup.net](https://pad.riseup.net/) instead of Google Docs. We may migrate to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/) from Dropbox and Google Docs/Drive. - * Finances: We may start using OpenCollective or other [alternatives to Patreon](https://switching.software/replace/patreon/) to fundraise and be transparent about our finances. * Logistics: We use the USPS and order directly from producers or sellers when possible. We avoid Amazon and app-based delivery services. * However, relationships come first. We use non-union, centralized, or monopoly capitalist services when necessary to build and maintain relationships with protesters. @@ -30,11 +29,14 @@ * *We could bridge social media accounts to federated [mastodon](https://switching.software/replace/twitter/) and [pixelfed](https://switching.software/replace/instagram/) accounts.* * We use mailchimp for our newsletter. * We use GroupMe for chat. - * *Good alternatives use [XMPP or Matrix standards](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/).* + * *Good alternatives use [XMPP, Matrix](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) or [email](https://delta.chat) messaging protocols.* + * We use Dropbox and Google Drive. + * *We should consider switching to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/).* <!-- * We might start to self-host: * public static webpage, blog/wiki, image gallery (llgal or zoph), pdf hosting, and gemini server. - * private git/readthedocs, cryptpad (document collaboration, file storage, scheduling), ssb pub (gossip), inventory management system, and webmail client. --> + * private git/readthedocs, cryptpad (document collaboration, file storage, scheduling), ssb pub (gossip), inventory management system, and webmail client. + * Notes: [Comparing federated and peer-to-peer protocols](https://medium.com/decentralized-web/decentralized-social-networks-e5a7a2603f53) and [issues with optomizing peer-to-peer](https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/this-is-fine/).--> ## How we work against militarism
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diff --git a/tmp-manifesto.mdwn b/tmp-manifesto.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fbb7b3b --- /dev/null +++ b/tmp-manifesto.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +*"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered." ---Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967* + +## Solidarity + +1. Racism, extreme materialism, and militarism harm us. + +2. When people harmed by these three evils spontaneously self-organize to mourn, rage, or change things, we trust the momentum, direction, and understanding they build. + +3. Our hurt draws us together to care for others harmed by racism, extreme materialism, and militarism. If people risk physical and moral injury when they self-organize against their victimization, we want to be there. We want to have their backs. + +4. Together, we discover the trust and care of solidarity. That motivates us. An injury to one is an injury to all. + +## Care work + +5. We believe care work plays a part in the sustainability and triumph of movements. Care work supports growth of voice, trust, and power. + +6. Care work includes child care, teaching, health work, cooking, and domestic work. We do it for people we care about. + +7. We believe the mere *presence* of care workers helps people boldly take action when they must first overcome fear due to concerns about accessibility, history of victimization by social or state violence, or their own caregiving responsibilities. + +8. We believe movement care work prevents premature demobilization due to mass illness, injury, demoralization, or exhaustion. + +9. We believe movement care work is a meaningful way to participate non-directively in social change. We try to remove obstacles, and enable collective participation and leadership, particularly by people who must use the language of the unheard. + +10. We focus our attention on people we percieve to be especially vulnerable in highly politicized environments due to age, risk or history of targeting, and social or behavioral flags. + +11. We build relationships as intensively with protesters as we can, through education, respectful service, and simple care (like cough drops). + +12. We promote mass prevention and resilience in simple ways. For example, we attend to sanitation at food tables, work to ensure access to bathroom facilities, and teach post-pepperspray decontamination. + +13. We maintain long-term relationships over years. Some of us continue our parents' multi-generational relationships on the left. + +14. We speak out against violence against protesters by the beneficiaries of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism. Some violence kills our friends dramatically or leaves marks on their bodies. Some violence is more hidden. + +15. We work to stay open to criticism by participants in protest and social movements, particularly front-line people and organizations we routinely support locally and elsewhere. We also maintain accountable friendships with many medics their organizations. + +16. We find that we grow personally and politically through doing movement care work. Over time, and after many mistakes, we become more humble and more brave. + +17. We take action in our workplaces and communities to advance the popular politics we are honored to participate in during times of protest. + +18. Our politics are the result of our relationships. + +19. By doing movement care work, we risk disappointing people we try to support or falling short of our commitments. We risk violent injury, arrest, losing our jobs, and demoralization, and exhaustion. + +20. Our risks are not unusual in the communities we serve and in which we participate. Many of our friends risk much more than some of us do. + +21. We want to serve for the long haul. + +22. Several members of our collective did movement support work for decades, until their natural deaths. We support each other in hopes that all of us who want to follow their lead will be able to do the same. + +23. We don't think small efforts like ours are sufficient to fix or replace our health care system, or fully care for the movements we support. First aid won't fix racism, materialism, and militarism. Neither will privatized services, foundations, thinktanks, or nonprofits. + +24. We believe in and advocate for universal public programs under democratic control, accountable especially to the communities and neighborhoods that lose the most from privatization and during economic, environmental, and disease crises. These are the communities we support with bandaids and referrals during protest. + +## People > property + +25. Some of us work in the alienating and racist hospital system, which resulted from hospital privatization after public hospitals were forced to racially integrate in the 1960s. We witness as the health care system actively maintains oppression with language and citizenship status discrimination, copays and deductibles, short-staffing and exploitation, alienation and prejudice + +26. Coronavirus killed tens of thousands of our elders. Even before the pandemic, it cost on average more than $8,000 a month to live an isolated life in a nursing home. Corporate makes money by taking away peoples' independence in dehumanizing ways---putting residents in diapers, for example, because understaffing means we don't have time to help them to the toilet. Residents die entirely preventable deaths from isolation, pressure sores, urinary tract infections, and waves of respiratory disease. + +27. Rides on ambulances we drive cost thousands of dollars. Simple medicines like insulin, Epipens, and Narcan nasal spray are priced high enough to kill. + +28. Corporate exploits the care work of staff to draw our patients and their families into unpayable debt. Private equity firms create health care monopolies. To extract money, they degrade our work and harm our patients. During recessions, Congress and the Federal Reserve quickly and smoothly give trillions of dollars to the wealthiest few, but act largely unconcerned about everyone else. Debt, degradation, and premature deaths are caused by policy, not scarcity. + +29. Congress refuses to fund pandemic-related state and municipal budget shortfalls. Congress's dereliction of duty drove states to reopen schools in hopes people would go back to work because the states desperately need tax revenue. Without budgets, radical defunding of public services and benefits may accelerate, and municipalities may go into antidemocratic recieverships. + +30. We anticipate increased racialized violence by militarized private security hired by property owners when police are defunded, even as we care for too many victims of brutality by public police today in the streets, medical and psychiatric hospitals, and nonprofits and essential jobs where we work. + +31. Parents, students, and teachers resist privatization of schools and other public services, particularly in Southside and Westside neighborhoods. Where there are too many guns and too few good jobs, permanent school closures kill children. + +32. DEPORTATION AND EXPLOITING UNDOCUMENTED PEOPLE + +33. FORECLOSURE, EVICTION, ETC + +34. WAR, POLICE MILITARIZATION, VETERANS, ETC + +35. We suffer together from the way things are. We come home from work to families, neighbors, and friends who fight alienation and deprivation to forge good lives. Because of the trust and care of solidarity, we are never hopeless. + +## Public good + +36. We advocate for universal single-payer health care, a federal jobs guarantee, good public schools, public parks, public hospitals and community mental health clinics, safe public transit, safe public housing, post office banks, public libraries, public broadband, well-paid public defenders, generous public pensions, public childcare, and an end to inequeties like cash bail. + +37. We call for the wealthy to have to use the same public goods as the rest of us, to ensure that public goods remain adequately funded. + +38. We call for a Jubilee of international and individual debt cancellation. + +39. We advocate demilitarization abroad and at home, and reinvestment of the peace dividend in universal public goods. + +40. We stand with and listen to the people protesting in the streets. We trust the freshness of their analysis and demands. + +41. We live better lives when we care for people we've never met before, our friends in the movement, and each other as best we can. + +42. Our care work, like our politics, is grounded in serving the public good---the good which provides a preferential option for the poor, exploited, lonely, or oppressed. + +43. We know society is continually being remade by people, as conflicts are worked out in the streets, the courts, the bureaucracies, and the legislatures. We know which side we are on. We are here for this. + +*“I just don't see anything to be substituted for having people understand their position and...their potential power and how to use it. This can only be done through the long route of...organizing people in small groups and parlaying those into large groups.” ---Bob Moses, SNCC leader.*
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diff --git a/tmp-anti.mdwn b/tmp-anti.mdwn index 26b1008..4bad693 100644 --- a/tmp-anti.mdwn +++ b/tmp-anti.mdwn @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ * *We could bridge social media accounts to federated [mastodon](https://switching.software/replace/twitter/) and [pixelfed](https://switching.software/replace/instagram/) accounts.* * We use mailchimp for our newsletter. * We use GroupMe for chat. - * *[Good alternatives use XMPP or Matrix standards](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/).* + * *Good alternatives use [XMPP or Matrix standards](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/).* <!-- * We might start to self-host: * public static webpage, blog/wiki, image gallery (llgal or zoph), pdf hosting, and gemini server.
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diff --git a/anti.mdwn b/anti.mdwn index 2c4f730..26b1008 100644 --- a/anti.mdwn +++ b/anti.mdwn @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ * Scheduling: We use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet or other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. Zoom's paid service is cool, though. * Surveys: We use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. - * Productivity: We temporarily use [pad.riseup.net](https://pad.riseup.net/) instead of Google Docs. We may migrate to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/) instead of Dropbox or Google Docs/Drive. + * Productivity: We temporarily use [pad.riseup.net](https://pad.riseup.net/) instead of Google Docs. We may migrate to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/) from Dropbox and Google Docs/Drive. * Finances: We may start using OpenCollective or other [alternatives to Patreon](https://switching.software/replace/patreon/) to fundraise and be transparent about our finances. * Logistics: We use the USPS and order directly from producers or sellers when possible. We avoid Amazon and app-based delivery services.
added logistics and copyedited
diff --git a/anti.mdwn b/anti.mdwn index bd12cc0..2c4f730 100644 --- a/anti.mdwn +++ b/anti.mdwn @@ -19,22 +19,22 @@ * Email: We use riseup [instead of Gmail](https://switching.software/replace/gmail/) for email. * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, GroupMe, and slack. * Scheduling: We use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. - * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet or other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. + * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet or other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. Zoom's paid service is cool, though. * Surveys: We use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. * Productivity: We temporarily use [pad.riseup.net](https://pad.riseup.net/) instead of Google Docs. We may migrate to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/) instead of Dropbox or Google Docs/Drive. * Finances: We may start using OpenCollective or other [alternatives to Patreon](https://switching.software/replace/patreon/) to fundraise and be transparent about our finances. + * Logistics: We use the USPS and order directly from producers or sellers when possible. We avoid Amazon and app-based delivery services. * However, relationships come first. We use non-union, centralized, or monopoly capitalist services when necessary to build and maintain relationships with protesters. - * We have facebook, twitter, and instagram accounts. - * *Our twitter account is suspended.* - * *We could bridge our social media accounts to federated mastodon/pleroma and pixelfed accounts.* + * We have facebook, twitter, and instagram accounts. *Twitter account is suspended.* + * *We could bridge social media accounts to federated [mastodon](https://switching.software/replace/twitter/) and [pixelfed](https://switching.software/replace/instagram/) accounts.* * We use mailchimp for our newsletter. * We use GroupMe for chat. - * *It isn't meeting our needs. [Alternatives use XMPP or Matrix standards](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/).* + * *[Good alternatives use XMPP or Matrix standards](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/).* -* We might start to self-host: +<!-- * We might start to self-host: * public static webpage, blog/wiki, image gallery (llgal or zoph), pdf hosting, and gemini server. - * private git/readthedocs, cryptpad (document collaboration, file storage, scheduling), ssb pub (gossip), inventory management system, and webmail client. + * private git/readthedocs, cryptpad (document collaboration, file storage, scheduling), ssb pub (gossip), inventory management system, and webmail client. --> ## How we work against militarism
added groupme to what alternatives are alternatives to
diff --git a/anti.mdwn b/anti.mdwn index d524436..bd12cc0 100644 --- a/anti.mdwn +++ b/anti.mdwn @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ * Whenever possible we support union shops, goods and services that decentralize human relations, and makers that actively oppose monopoly capitalism. * Public presence: We have a Wordpress website and a (what service?) phone number. * Email: We use riseup [instead of Gmail](https://switching.software/replace/gmail/) for email. - * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. + * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, GroupMe, and slack. * Scheduling: We use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet or other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. * Surveys: We use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey.
moved list, added groupme
diff --git a/anti.mdwn b/anti.mdwn index 723b231..d524436 100644 --- a/anti.mdwn +++ b/anti.mdwn @@ -17,18 +17,20 @@ * Whenever possible we support union shops, goods and services that decentralize human relations, and makers that actively oppose monopoly capitalism. * Public presence: We have a Wordpress website and a (what service?) phone number. * Email: We use riseup [instead of Gmail](https://switching.software/replace/gmail/) for email. - * Messaging: We use [Signal, a riseup listserv, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. + * Messaging: We use a riseup listserv, [Signal, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. * Scheduling: We use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet or other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. * Surveys: We use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. * Productivity: We temporarily use [pad.riseup.net](https://pad.riseup.net/) instead of Google Docs. We may migrate to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/) instead of Dropbox or Google Docs/Drive. * Finances: We may start using OpenCollective or other [alternatives to Patreon](https://switching.software/replace/patreon/) to fundraise and be transparent about our finances. -* However, relationships come first. We use non-union, centralized, and monopoly capitalist services when currently necessary to build and maintain relationships with protesters. +* However, relationships come first. We use non-union, centralized, or monopoly capitalist services when necessary to build and maintain relationships with protesters. * We have facebook, twitter, and instagram accounts. * *Our twitter account is suspended.* * *We could bridge our social media accounts to federated mastodon/pleroma and pixelfed accounts.* - * We use mailchimp for our newsletter. + * We use mailchimp for our newsletter. + * We use GroupMe for chat. + * *It isn't meeting our needs. [Alternatives use XMPP or Matrix standards](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/).* * We might start to self-host: * public static webpage, blog/wiki, image gallery (llgal or zoph), pdf hosting, and gemini server.
added in the streets, copyedited, fixed email
diff --git a/anti.mdwn b/anti.mdwn index ee12f06..723b231 100644 --- a/anti.mdwn +++ b/anti.mdwn @@ -4,23 +4,36 @@ ## How we work against extreme materialism -* We support makers of goods and services that decentralize human relations and actively oppose monopoly capitalism whenever possible. +**In the streets** + +* We provide direct support to struggles against: + * greedy banks, landlords, and other capitalists + * looting pension fund managers + * privatizing or anti-worker policy + * abusive bosses + +**Internally** + +* Whenever possible we support union shops, goods and services that decentralize human relations, and makers that actively oppose monopoly capitalism. + * Public presence: We have a Wordpress website and a (what service?) phone number. + * Email: We use riseup [instead of Gmail](https://switching.software/replace/gmail/) for email. + * Messaging: We use [Signal, a riseup listserv, and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. * Scheduling: We use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. - * Messaging: We use [Signal and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. - * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. - * Public presence: We have a website and a (what service?) phone number. + * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet or other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. * Surveys: We use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. - * Team productivity: We plan to migrate to [NextCloud or CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/) instead of Dropbox or Google Drive for team productivity. - * We are considering switching to an [alternative to Gmail](https://switching.software/replace/gmail/) for email. - * We are considering using OpenCollective or other [alternatives to Patreon](https://switching.software/replace/patreon/) to fundraise and be transparent about our finances. + * Productivity: We temporarily use [pad.riseup.net](https://pad.riseup.net/) instead of Google Docs. We may migrate to [CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/) instead of Dropbox or Google Docs/Drive. + * Finances: We may start using OpenCollective or other [alternatives to Patreon](https://switching.software/replace/patreon/) to fundraise and be transparent about our finances. -* We may self-host: +* However, relationships come first. We use non-union, centralized, and monopoly capitalist services when currently necessary to build and maintain relationships with protesters. + * We have facebook, twitter, and instagram accounts. + * *Our twitter account is suspended.* + * *We could bridge our social media accounts to federated mastodon/pleroma and pixelfed accounts.* + * We use mailchimp for our newsletter. + +* We might start to self-host: * public static webpage, blog/wiki, image gallery (llgal or zoph), pdf hosting, and gemini server. * private git/readthedocs, cryptpad (document collaboration, file storage, scheduling), ssb pub (gossip), inventory management system, and webmail client. -* However, relationships come first. We use monopoly capitalist platforms when currently necessary. - * We have facebook and instagram accounts. - ## How we work against militarism ## Why?
copyedit libre software section
diff --git a/anti.mdwn b/anti.mdwn index c2dcd43..ee12f06 100644 --- a/anti.mdwn +++ b/anti.mdwn @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ## How we work against extreme materialism -* We support non-monopoly capitalist goods and services whenever possible. +* We support makers of goods and services that decentralize human relations and actively oppose monopoly capitalism whenever possible. * Scheduling: We use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. * Messaging: We use [Signal and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. @@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ ## Why? -“I just don’t see anything to be substituted for having people understand their position and...their potential power and how to use it. This can only be done through the long route of...organizing people in small groups and parlaying those into large groups.” —Bob Moses, SNCC leader. +*“I just don’t see anything to be substituted for having people understand their position and...their potential power and how to use it. This can only be done through the long route of...organizing people in small groups and parlaying those into large groups.” —Bob Moses, SNCC leader.*
new page--focused on libre software for now
diff --git a/anti.mdwn b/anti.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2dcd43 --- /dev/null +++ b/anti.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +*“When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. April 4, 1967* + +## How we work against racism + +## How we work against extreme materialism + +* We support non-monopoly capitalist goods and services whenever possible. + * Scheduling: We use [framadate](https://switching.software/replace/doodle/) or [dudle](https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/) instead of doodle. + * Messaging: We use [Signal and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/whatsapp/) to WhatsApp, facebook messenger, and slack. + * Videoconferencing: We use [Jitsi Meet and other alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/zoom/) to Zoom's free service. + * Public presence: We have a website and a (what service?) phone number. + * Surveys: We use [alternatives](https://switching.software/replace/google-forms/) to Google Forms and SurveyMonkey. + * Team productivity: We plan to migrate to [NextCloud or CryptPad](https://switching.software/replace/google-drive/) instead of Dropbox or Google Drive for team productivity. + * We are considering switching to an [alternative to Gmail](https://switching.software/replace/gmail/) for email. + * We are considering using OpenCollective or other [alternatives to Patreon](https://switching.software/replace/patreon/) to fundraise and be transparent about our finances. + +* We may self-host: + * public static webpage, blog/wiki, image gallery (llgal or zoph), pdf hosting, and gemini server. + * private git/readthedocs, cryptpad (document collaboration, file storage, scheduling), ssb pub (gossip), inventory management system, and webmail client. + +* However, relationships come first. We use monopoly capitalist platforms when currently necessary. + * We have facebook and instagram accounts. + +## How we work against militarism + +## Why? + +“I just don’t see anything to be substituted for having people understand their position and...their potential power and how to use it. This can only be done through the long route of...organizing people in small groups and parlaying those into large groups.” —Bob Moses, SNCC leader.
consent > informed consent
diff --git a/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn b/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn index 6522192..6c788ff 100644 --- a/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn +++ b/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ 1. Do no harm; work with a buddy. 2. Practice within a limited scope and prioritize prevention. -3. Protect the right to consent. +3. Protect the right to informed consent. 4. Be a humanizing force in dehumanizing situations. 5. Protect patient privacy. 6. Practice hygiene, BSI, sanitation; stay home when sick.
minor copyedit #2
diff --git a/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn b/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn index e447dcc..6522192 100644 --- a/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn +++ b/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ "You can trust our medic crew to: 1. Do no harm; work with a buddy. -2. Practice within limited scope and prioritize prevention. +2. Practice within a limited scope and prioritize prevention. 3. Protect the right to consent. 4. Be a humanizing force in dehumanizing situations. 5. Protect patient privacy.
copyedit agm and added don't badmouth to clinicians
diff --git a/first_aid_team.mdwn b/first_aid_team.mdwn index 9303426..c862eb2 100644 --- a/first_aid_team.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_team.mdwn @@ -4,18 +4,18 @@ **Affinity group medic** or **squad medic** -If you have first aid skills and want to help protesters, the most useful thing you can do is get with a small group of friends, and promote health in your squad before, during, and after their involvement in street actions: +If you have first aid skills and want to help protesters, the most useful thing you can do is get with a small group of friends to protest together. Promote health in your squad before, during, and after street actions: -* Share information from this site with your small group to help them [[organize into buddy pairs|pearl]] and [[prep for street conditions|stay safe in the streets]]. -* Encourage your people to prepare [[jail support]] forms and leave them with someone safe who will be told if they are arrested. -* Learn where your people can get tested. Help them make care and quarantine support plans. +* Help your small group [[organize into buddy pairs|pearl]] and [[prep for street conditions|stay safe in the streets]]. +* Encourage them to prep [[jail support]] forms and leave with someone safe. Message the form-holder if a squadmate gets arrested. +* Learn where your people can get tested. Help everybody make care and quarantine support plans. * Learn the health histories of people in your squad. Ask what kind of help they want from you. -* Carry a small [[first aid kit]]. Provide first aid if anyone in your group is hurt. Accompany them if they need advanced care. -* Wait for squadmates' release if they are arrested. Meet them outside the jail. -* Check in when action subsides. Get your group together to eat and support each other. Help with aftercare needs. +* Carry a small [[first aid kit]]. Do first aid if anyone in your group is hurt. Go with them if they need advanced care. +* Wait for squadmates' release if they get arrested. Meet outside the jail. +* Check in when action calms. Get together, eat, and support each other. Help with aftercare needs. * Keep confidentiality, have your own buddy, and take care of your own stress. -**First aid teams or street medics** +**First aid team** or **street medics** First aid teams are small groups organized to provide education, care, and advocacy to anyone who needs it. @@ -31,14 +31,15 @@ More on street medics: * Read [A Political Medicine: Trust and Power in the Ferguson Uprising](http://agk.wikidot.com/tmp:political-med) (offsite link), an academic paper from 2015. * Read [Contusions](http://medicstories.wikidot.com/contusions-brian-dominick) (offsite link), a 2002 reflection by a street medic. -**Clinicians and nurses** +**Clinicians** and **nurses** * Organize your colleagues (or professional body) with protesters to ensure good, free care for people injured in the protests, including undocumented people. * Lobby for all care to be free at the point of service. * Speak out as an individual medical professional, draft statements and write press releases from your workplace or professional body, and get your workplace or professional body to engage in research that advances protester demands. * Serve protesters as a medical monitor, or organize a safe space for first aid and care to be rendered. +* Don't ever publicly badmouth protesters. Challenge colleagues if they publicly badmouth protesters. -More on clinicians: +More on clinicians and nurses: * Read more about [[how medical providers can help protesters]]. * Read [protocols for intake workers](http://medicstories.wikidot.com/protocols-for-intake-workers) (offsite link) at a street medic run free clinic after Hurricane Katrina.
added squad medic
diff --git a/first_aid_team.mdwn b/first_aid_team.mdwn index 2fdc36b..9303426 100644 --- a/first_aid_team.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_team.mdwn @@ -2,16 +2,16 @@ -**Affinity group medics** +**Affinity group medic** or **squad medic** -If you have first aid skills and want to help protesters, the most useful thing you can do is organize with a small group of protesters, and promote health in your small group before, during, and after their involvement in street actions: +If you have first aid skills and want to help protesters, the most useful thing you can do is get with a small group of friends, and promote health in your squad before, during, and after their involvement in street actions: * Share information from this site with your small group to help them [[organize into buddy pairs|pearl]] and [[prep for street conditions|stay safe in the streets]]. * Encourage your people to prepare [[jail support]] forms and leave them with someone safe who will be told if they are arrested. * Learn where your people can get tested. Help them make care and quarantine support plans. -* Learn the health histories of your group's members. Ask what kind of help they would like from you. +* Learn the health histories of people in your squad. Ask what kind of help they want from you. * Carry a small [[first aid kit]]. Provide first aid if anyone in your group is hurt. Accompany them if they need advanced care. -* Wait for their release if they are arrested. Meet them outside the jail. +* Wait for squadmates' release if they are arrested. Meet them outside the jail. * Check in when action subsides. Get your group together to eat and support each other. Help with aftercare needs. * Keep confidentiality, have your own buddy, and take care of your own stress.
got rid of confusing medical monitor language
diff --git a/first_aid_team.mdwn b/first_aid_team.mdwn index 1f55f5f..2fdc36b 100644 --- a/first_aid_team.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_team.mdwn @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ -**Medical monitors or affinity group medics** +**Affinity group medics** If you have first aid skills and want to help protesters, the most useful thing you can do is organize with a small group of protesters, and promote health in your small group before, during, and after their involvement in street actions:
new page
diff --git a/CC0.mdwn b/CC0.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25d9c8f --- /dev/null +++ b/CC0.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +*Street Safety hosts resources for protesters.* + +Unlike most documents on this site (which are licensed under [[CC BY-SA]]), this material has been placed in the public domain: + +> *No Copyright* +> +> *The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.* +> +> *You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.* + +Full public domain dedication at [CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (offsite link).
added link to onsite ethics page, removed link to offsite ows ethics
diff --git a/first_aid_team.mdwn b/first_aid_team.mdwn index a0fcb1e..1f55f5f 100644 --- a/first_aid_team.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_team.mdwn @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ If you have first aid skills and want to help protesters, the most useful thing First aid teams are small groups organized to provide education, care, and advocacy to anyone who needs it. * Build relationships as intensively with protesters as you can, through education and simple care (like cough drops). -* Have an ethical code, respect protestor autonomy, and maintain high standards of consent, confidentiality, and humility. +* Have [[ethics guidelines|medic ethics guidelines]], respect protestor autonomy, and maintain high standards of consent, confidentiality, and humility. * Make a list of [[local resources]] in your area, and build a referral network. * Try to develop a relationship with existing street medics who have been doing this work for many years. * Try to get everyone in your group to take a 20-hour training with established street medics if one is offered that you can attend. @@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ First aid teams are small groups organized to provide education, care, and advoc More on street medics: * Read [[Meet the Grandmother of Street Medics]], originally published in the *New York Times* (10 June 2020) and [Radicalizing Care: Street Medics and Solidarity](https://activisthistory.com/2020/06/01/radicalizing-care-street-medics-and-solidarity/) (offsite link) by medic Riley Clare Valentine in the *Activist History Review* (1 June 2020). -* Read the Occupy Wall Street street medic teams [code of ethics](https://medic.wikia.org/wiki/OWS_medics_code_of_ethics) (offsite link) from 2011. * Read [A Political Medicine: Trust and Power in the Ferguson Uprising](http://agk.wikidot.com/tmp:political-med) (offsite link), an academic paper from 2015. * Read [Contusions](http://medicstories.wikidot.com/contusions-brian-dominick) (offsite link), a 2002 reflection by a street medic.
minor copyedit, added "hold us accountable" bookend text, added CC0
diff --git a/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn b/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn index 0e6a841..e447dcc 100644 --- a/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn +++ b/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn @@ -1,17 +1,29 @@ +*Street Safety hosts resources for protesters.* + +*This is an example of **medic ethics guidelines**. Your group is welcome to reprint or change them to fit your needs.* + +"You can trust our medic crew to: + 1. Do no harm; work with a buddy. 2. Practice within limited scope and prioritize prevention. -3. Protect right to consent. -4. Be humanizing force in dehumanizing situations. +3. Protect the right to consent. +4. Be a humanizing force in dehumanizing situations. 5. Protect patient privacy. 6. Practice hygiene, BSI, sanitation; stay home when sick. - 7. Ensure continuity of care. +7. Ensure continuity of care. 8. Organize horizontally (without hierarchy). -9. No tactical or ideological leadership when in medic role. +9. Take no tactical or ideological leadership when in medic role. 10. Safeguard trust, demonstrate solidarity, spread calm. 11. Support each other. -12. Have the right to personal lives. -13. Sober on duty; keep care areas tobacco-free. +12. Have the right to time off and personal lives. +13. Be sober on duty; keep care areas tobacco-free. 14. Recieve correction in good faith. -15. On duty when marked. +15. Be on duty when marked. + +If we mess up, please remind us to hold each other accountable to these ethics. You can also directly hold us accountable. Our ethics are really important to us." + +## Source + +Short form of [[ethics proposal]]. -See [[ethics proposal]] (long form). +Sentiments by many medic groups; language by A. Grace Keller. Placed in public domain: [[CC0]].
rename example_of_medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn to medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn
diff --git a/example_of_medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn b/medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn similarity index 100% rename from example_of_medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn rename to medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn
update for rename of example_of_medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn to medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn
diff --git a/ethics_proposal.mdwn b/ethics_proposal.mdwn index cf649bc..a3eb6e8 100644 --- a/ethics_proposal.mdwn +++ b/ethics_proposal.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -See also: [[example_of_medic_ethics_guidelines]]. +See also: [[medic_ethics_guidelines]]. 1. We **do no harm**. We work in buddy teams. We help people get to safe care areas before initiating care if possible. We monitor safety in and around care areas to reduce risk. We use the most conservative interventions possible and make every reasonable effort to safeguard patient health and well-being. If do-no-harm care is not possible, we default to calm, comfort, reassurance, and referral or transport to the best available care. 2. We work within our professional (or lay) **scopes of practice**, limited by an assessment of what is situationally appropriate. We trust and respect the abilities of other medics. We do not impose ourselves when they are providing care. We respect all disciplines (nursing, medicine, herbalism, social work, pre-hospital care, etc.). Every medic team has, at mimimum, first response and first aid training equivalent to a 20-hour Street Medic or 16-hour Wilderness First Aid training. All new members work under supervision by experienced members. We explicitly inform patients of our qualifications and limitations.
rename ethics_proposal_shorter.mdwn to example_of_medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn
diff --git a/ethics_proposal_shorter.mdwn b/example_of_medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn similarity index 100% rename from ethics_proposal_shorter.mdwn rename to example_of_medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn
update for rename of ethics_proposal_shorter.mdwn to example_of_medic_ethics_guidelines.mdwn
diff --git a/ethics_proposal.mdwn b/ethics_proposal.mdwn index fefa805..cf649bc 100644 --- a/ethics_proposal.mdwn +++ b/ethics_proposal.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -See also: [[ethics proposal shorter]]. +See also: [[example_of_medic_ethics_guidelines]]. 1. We **do no harm**. We work in buddy teams. We help people get to safe care areas before initiating care if possible. We monitor safety in and around care areas to reduce risk. We use the most conservative interventions possible and make every reasonable effort to safeguard patient health and well-being. If do-no-harm care is not possible, we default to calm, comfort, reassurance, and referral or transport to the best available care. 2. We work within our professional (or lay) **scopes of practice**, limited by an assessment of what is situationally appropriate. We trust and respect the abilities of other medics. We do not impose ourselves when they are providing care. We respect all disciplines (nursing, medicine, herbalism, social work, pre-hospital care, etc.). Every medic team has, at mimimum, first response and first aid training equivalent to a 20-hour Street Medic or 16-hour Wilderness First Aid training. All new members work under supervision by experienced members. We explicitly inform patients of our qualifications and limitations.
added prevntion to #2
diff --git a/ethics_proposal_shorter.mdwn b/ethics_proposal_shorter.mdwn index e110494..0e6a841 100644 --- a/ethics_proposal_shorter.mdwn +++ b/ethics_proposal_shorter.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ 1. Do no harm; work with a buddy. -2. Practice within limited scope. +2. Practice within limited scope and prioritize prevention. 3. Protect right to consent. 4. Be humanizing force in dehumanizing situations. 5. Protect patient privacy.
copyedit, quarantine plans, links
diff --git a/first_aid_team.mdwn b/first_aid_team.mdwn index 325e814..a0fcb1e 100644 --- a/first_aid_team.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_team.mdwn @@ -4,13 +4,14 @@ **Medical monitors or affinity group medics** -If you have first aid skills and want to help protesters, the most useful thing you can do is organize with a small group of protesters to promote their health before, during, and after their involvement in street actions: +If you have first aid skills and want to help protesters, the most useful thing you can do is organize with a small group of protesters, and promote health in your small group before, during, and after their involvement in street actions: -* Share information from this site with your small group to help them organize into buddy pairs and prep for street conditions. -* Encourage them to prepare legal support forms and leave them with someone safe, who will know if they are arrested. -* Learn about the health histories of your group's members, so you can prepare to help if they need it. +* Share information from this site with your small group to help them [[organize into buddy pairs|pearl]] and [[prep for street conditions|stay safe in the streets]]. +* Encourage your people to prepare [[jail support]] forms and leave them with someone safe who will be told if they are arrested. +* Learn where your people can get tested. Help them make care and quarantine support plans. +* Learn the health histories of your group's members. Ask what kind of help they would like from you. * Carry a small [[first aid kit]]. Provide first aid if anyone in your group is hurt. Accompany them if they need advanced care. -* Wait for their release if they are arrested, and meet them outside the jail. +* Wait for their release if they are arrested. Meet them outside the jail. * Check in when action subsides. Get your group together to eat and support each other. Help with aftercare needs. * Keep confidentiality, have your own buddy, and take care of your own stress.
ditto
diff --git a/first_aid_team.mdwn b/first_aid_team.mdwn index a19068b..325e814 100644 --- a/first_aid_team.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_team.mdwn @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ If you have first aid skills and want to help protesters, the most useful thing * Learn about the health histories of your group's members, so you can prepare to help if they need it. * Carry a small [[first aid kit]]. Provide first aid if anyone in your group is hurt. Accompany them if they need advanced care. * Wait for their release if they are arrested, and meet them outside the jail. -* Check in with them when action subsides. Get them together to eat and support each other. Help with aftercare needs. +* Check in when action subsides. Get your group together to eat and support each other. Help with aftercare needs. * Keep confidentiality, have your own buddy, and take care of your own stress. **First aid teams or street medics**
clarifird "they" in agm
diff --git a/first_aid_team.mdwn b/first_aid_team.mdwn index 23bf051..a19068b 100644 --- a/first_aid_team.mdwn +++ b/first_aid_team.mdwn @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ If you have first aid skills and want to help protesters, the most useful thing * Share information from this site with your small group to help them organize into buddy pairs and prep for street conditions. * Encourage them to prepare legal support forms and leave them with someone safe, who will know if they are arrested. * Learn about the health histories of your group's members, so you can prepare to help if they need it. -* Carry a small [[first aid kit]]. Provide first aid if they are hurt. Accompany them if they need advanced care. +* Carry a small [[first aid kit]]. Provide first aid if anyone in your group is hurt. Accompany them if they need advanced care. * Wait for their release if they are arrested, and meet them outside the jail. * Check in with them when action subsides. Get them together to eat and support each other. Help with aftercare needs. * Keep confidentiality, have your own buddy, and take care of your own stress.