STREET MEDICS
(Posted 2011-10-07 11:02:24 by ArchPaladin)

One particular thing I was exposed to in looking through the Occupy Wall
Street movement has been street medics [
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_medics ] [wikipedia.org].  These are
basically people who address the medical needs of protesters as they go in
the streets.  They handle basic first aid, sanitation concerns, dealing
with chemical weapons (eg. pepper spray), and mitigate and handle the
aftereffects of trauma that may have occurred as a result of violence
during protesting.

Like most protest-oriented things, most of their actions, training, and
deployment appears to be very grassroots.  They have a few websites [
http://medic.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page ] [wikia.com], but most of what they
do appears to be acquired or improvised on-the-job.

I suppose that if I were to take part in a protest I would eventually make
my way over to this area.

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