What: 20 hour Street Medic Training When: March 15-17th Who: FLAME (Finger Lakes Action Medics and Educators Network) Where: Ithaca, NY Cost $20-80 sliding scale
FLAME will be hosting a Street Medic training in Ithaca, NY on the weekend of March 15th. Some housing will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
This is the standard training for individuals of all levels of experience who want to identify as Street Medics at all kinds of events–protests, marches, occupations, encampments, blockades, etc.
Here’s a great summary from ARM (Atlanta Resistance Medics) as to what trainings like this are all about. “This training will qualify persons with or without health care experience to begin acting as street medics. Participants will learn about street medic history and ethics, common health issues seen by street medics, working in non-hierarchical communities, and advocating for and empowering our patients. The training uses scenarios, lecture, and lots of hands-on practice.
Street medics are called upon to deal with everything from head trauma to sexual assault to handcuff injuries to hypothermia. Street medics are trained in first response, critical incident stress support, management of injuries caused by police, weather, health disparities, and impaired decision making; and public health promotion in protester encampments and communities in struggle. Street medic care is ethical, empowering, and always starts with ‘do no harm.’ As a street medic, you will be specifically qualified to work in a team structure in unsecured situations or clinics, with limited resources, and to challenge oppression while supporting the effectiveness of social movements that attack disparities at their source.”
Questions? Want to register? Shoot us a message! Flame@riseup.net
Protect New York State drinking water from unsafe gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. The hydrofracking process endangers drinking water supplies, uses billions of gallons of drinking water in the process and creates contaminated water that cannot be properly treated. In New York State, Governor Paterson needs to ban unsafe gas drilling in order to protect our drinking water supply. Safer methods are being developed that are well worth waiting for.
“Water is the first law of life. We cannot live without water. Over 1/4 of the world’s potable water is right here [in the Great Lakes watershed] and [hydrofracking is] in danger of damaging it severely,” stated Onondaga Faithkeeper Oren Lyons. “This decision is a moral decision,” Cayuga HETF representative Dan Hill admonished the regulators.
Given the threats to our communities from major corporations anxious to extract gas which is tightly-embedded in the Marcellus Shale, learning how we can take back of our communities and safeguard our water and other precious resources is more important than ever. Democracy School teaches us skills and principles that help us protect and restore the rights of local communities to “the commons,” essentials for life which extend beyond private property: clean water, clean air, a safe and healthy ecosystem, and a viable economy for ALL people (not just for the far-away executives of multinational corporations).
Democracy School for the Southern Tier presents:
The Daniel Pennock DEMOCRACY SCHOOL
On Saturday, October 17, 2009, the Executive Committee of the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club met in Syracuse and passed a resolution proposed by the SC Gas Drilling Task Force. The resolutions calls on the NYS legislature to enact a ban on unconventional gas drilling in NYS.
The first ever regional Bioneers Conference offers several opportunities to learn about natural gas drilling and its impact (and potential future impacts) on our region.
Friday the 16th Dave Cooper will speak about the Mountain Justice Movement, and Karryn Olson-Ramanujan of the Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute will speak on Changing Our Minds: Thinking Skills for a Regenerative Future
Saturday the 17th Shaleshock and Mountain Justice will come together to talk about “Shaleshock and Mountain Justice: Sharing Strategies to Strengthen a Movement”
Sunday the 18th be inspired by Dorothy Cotton in her keynote address “What the Civil Rights Movement can Teach the Sustainability Movement”
There will be many other amazing workshops on topics from Clean Energy Policy, to Green Jobs, to Single Payer Healthcare, as well as opportunities for nature walks, yoga, and even a poetry slam. Find out more »
Come see Split Estate in Elmira Heights:
WHEN: Tuesday, September 29th at 7:00 p.m. & Saturday, October 3rd at 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Heights Theater, 210 East 14th Street, Elmira Heights, NY 14903
DETAILS: Screening of the 2009 Award-winning film Split Estate, 76 minutes
Screening and discussion of Split Estate, documentary exploring the damage done to human and animal health, water supply, air quality, property, soil and local economies when high-pressure, horizontal hydraulic fracturing is used to extract gas from shale located deep within the earth. Click here to watch the trailer.
FREE! ALL ARE WELCOME!
These film screenings are brought to you by Red Rock Pictures and Producer Debra Anderson www.splitestate.com and co-sponsored by Bath Peace and Justice Group; Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition; Committee to Protect the Finger Lakes; Concerned Citizens of Ulysses; Finger Lakes Progressives; League of Women Voters of Steuben County; Pax Christi Elmira; Pax Christi Upstate New York; Peaceful Gatherings; Shaleshock; Steuben Greens and Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Big Flats
What: 20 hour Street Medic Training
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