Anonymous asked: How can i be apart of this movement?

We have a post on this which should serve you well: “How do I become a street medic?”

Anonymous asked: Could u provide a link for a good black messenger bag, i can use for medic supplies?

Checking local military surplus stores may be your best bet as far as finding a good gear bag. Look for something that you can access easily on the run, that won’t weigh you down, and ideally can’t be easily grabbed if the police decide to take a swing at you.

dysphorichallucinations asked: Any ideas on where to obtain those sweet black Guy Fawkes masks? Google turns up nada so I'm wondering if maybe they were custom?

They’ve been modified, and to our knowledge are not available for purchase. They were painted, and have had the eyes/nose/mouth blocked out. The effect is not ideal for bedside manner, but good for theatrics.

Anonymous asked: can i just come to tampa with my supplies (fully medic trained) and not wear the silly mask? i have the tshirts.

You can wear whatever you like, you certainly don’t need our permission.

Strange Rumblings in Aztlan - Hunter S. Thompson, 4/29/71

[Note: The following article contains racially-charged language]

The… Murder… and Resurrection of Ruben Salazar by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department… Savage Polarization & the Making of a Martyr… Bad News for the Mexican-American… Worse News for the Pig… And Now the New Chicano… Riding a Grim New Wave… The Rise of the Batos Locos… Brown Power and a Fistful of Reds… Rude Politics in the Barrio… Which Side Are You On… Brother?… There Is No More Middleground… No Place to Hide on Whittier Boulevard… No Refuge from the Helicopters… No Hope in the Courts… No Peace with the Man… No Leverage Anywhere… and No Light at the End of This Tunnel… Nada…

Morning comes hard to the Hotel Ashmun; this is not a place where the guests spring eagerly out of bed to greet the fresh new day. But on this particular morning everybody in the place is awake at the crack of dawn: There is a terrible pounding and shrieking in the hallway, near room No. 267. Some junkie has ripped the doorknob off the communal bathroom, and now the others can’t get in — so they are trying to kick the door down. The voice of the manager wavers hysterically above the din: “Come on now, fellas — do I have to call the sheriff?” The reply comes hard and fast: “You filthy gabacho pig! You call the fuckin sheriff and I’ll cut your fuckin throat.” And now the sound of wood cracking, more screaming, the sound of running feet outside my door, No. 267. The door is locked, thank Christ — but how can you say for sure in a place like the Hotel Ashmun?

occupyallstreets:

Energy And Commerce Investigation Reveals Obama Secretly Cut A Deal With Lobbyist Group PhRMA On Health Care Reform

It was first reported back in 2009 that the Obama administration cut a deal with the PhRMA to break specific campaign promises he made about health care reform in exchange for PhRMA spending money to politically support the bill. Thanks to some newly revealed emails via Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner we now have more details of how the deal was made.

Nancy DeParle, then director of the White House Office of Health Reform, wrote the following email to PhRMA’s chief lobbyist on June 3, 2009: “Yes – I pushed this to everyone (Messina, Rahm) is in Egypt with POTUS but Phil Schrillo, Dana Singlser and I made decision, based on how constructive you guys have been, to oppose importation on this bill.”

[…]

That September, top PhRMA lobbyist Bryant Hall reported to his coworkers in an email that he “had a good call w Messina,” and wrote: “Confidential: WH is working on some very explicit language on importation to kill it in health care reform. This has to stay quiet.”

Between May and August 2009, as the White House officials and key players in Congress were formulating the national health care law, the Obama administration held ongoing negotiations with PhRMA to secure industry support for the health care law as well as other policy concessions.

A report by the House Energy And Commerce goes into details:

“Documents obtained through the investigation confirm the existence of a deal between the White House and PhRMA. The deal included explicit policy commitments, affirmed in a closed-door meeting at the White House on July 7, 2009…And in its review of the tactics used by the White House, the investigation identified a potent combination of policy threats and private reassurances that industry would be protected against policies it disliked in exchange for support of the legislation and acceptance of other policies. Taken together, these findings help illuminate a previously opaque series of agreements that resulted in a fundamental reshaping of our nation’s health care system.”

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(via anarcho-queer)

“That the charges in the trials often referred to events that had occurred decades earlier, that witchcraft was made a crimen exceptum, that is, a crime to be investigated by special means, torture included, and it was punishable even in the absence of any proven damage to persons and things - all these factors indicate that the target of the witch-hunt - (as it is often true with political repression in times of intense social change and conflict) - were not socially recognized crimes, but previously accepted practices and groups of individuals that had to be eradicated from the community, through terror and criminalization.

In this sense, the charge of witchcraft performed a function similar to that performed by “high treason” (which, significantly, was introduced into the English legal code in the same years), and the charge of “terrorism” in our times. The very vagueness of the charge - the fact that it was impossible to prove it, while at the same time it evoked the maximum of horror - meant that it could be used to punish any form of protest and to generate suspicion even towards the most ordinary aspects of daily life.”
- Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation

mollycrabapple:

A poster for the striking, recently criminalized students in Quebec.

Read about Quebec’s Law 78, deliberately designed to crush the student protests, here

Please share, download, print, wheatepaste, poster, and plaster this art everywhere.  Hope it’s useful to you.  HIGH RES HERE

3liza:

i am definitely not advising that you misuse _free USPS materials (it is a crime)

[full size download]

Accurate depiction of Oakland’s Finest.

(Source: 3liza, via mollycrabapple)