tem is here to help

the Syrian dictator Assad, along with Putin, are about to completely massacre an entire city - Aleppo. the Syrian army has taken over 98% of the city. families are sitting together, praying, knowing any minute will be their last minute on earth. civilians are tweeting their last goodbyes, sending out last minute pleas for someone, anyone, to help.

imagine that. sitting with the people you love, holding each other, hearing nothing but their harsh breathing and the clash of bombs completely destroying your home, killing your neighbors, your friends, you. just imagine that. i cant, i really cannot.

the U.N. has already called Syria the worst humanitarian crisis in this century. experts are saying this massacre rivals that of WW2 (not to take away from the holocaust) in terms of how heinous and completely disgusting it is.

Hundreds join #JewishResistance protest against Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon

On Sunday, hundreds of Jewish protesters took the streets of New York City to protest Steve Bannon, 

Protesters marched in solidarity with Muslims and other marginalized groups. 

When you don’t think a group are “people” it’s very eassy to abuse them. They’re not people with feelings, an experience of pain, families, or lives after all. It was easy for SS officers to execute Jews, Poles, Romani, and queer people in the Holocaust because they didnt think we were people. This isn’t just hateful. It’s dangerous. It’s dangerous the way the Muslim Registry is dangerous. These are pre-genocide red flags.

I AM A JEWISH PERSON. JEWS ARE PEOPLE. ALL PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE. A PERSON IS A PERSON NO MATTER HOW SMALL.

A Vine compilation (part 1?) 

Sophia was struck directly by a concussion grenade last night on the front lines of Blackwater Bridge while trying to defend water and indigenous history.

Abuse may be forgiven, but it is not forgotten. Even if the mind forgets, the body remembers. Abusers cannot scar you and act like it never happened by doing nice things for you to “fix” it.

Repost from Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council’s Facebook:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Monday, November 20, 2016 3:00pm Prepared by Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council at the Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Camps

The Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council responded to a mass casualty incident that began at 6pm yesterday evening. Approximately 300 injuries were identified, triaged, assessed and treated by our physicians, nurses, paramedics and integrative healers working in collaboration with local emergency response. These 300 injuries were the direct result of excessive force by police over the course of 10 hours. At least 26 seriously injured people had to be evacuated by ambulance to 3 area hospitals.

Police continuously assaulted demonstrators with up to three water cannons for the first 7 hours of this incident in subfreezing temperatures dipping to 22F © causing hypothermia in the majority of patients treated. Chemical weapons in the form of pepper spray and tear gas were also used extensively, requiring chemical decontamination for nearly all patients treated and severe reactions in many. Projectiles in the form of tear gas canisters, rubber bullets, and concussion grenades led to numerous blunt force traumas including head wounds, lacerations, serious orthopedic injuries, eye trauma, and internal bleeding.

Every emergency medical unit from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation responded to the incident and additional ambulances were sent from Cheyenne River Sioux tribe (South Dakota), Kidder County, and Morton County. 3 seriously injured patients were transported directly by ambulance from the scene and another 23 patients were transported by ambulance after initial assessment and treatment in camp. Injuries from the mass casualty incident include: • An elder who lost consciousness and was revived on scene • A young man with a grand mal seizure • A woman shot in the face by a rubber bullet with subsequent eye injury and compromised vision • A young man with internal bleeding who was vomiting blood after a rubber bullet injury to his abdomen • A man shot in the back near his spine by a rubber bullet causing blunt force trauma and a severe head laceration • Multiple fractures secondary to projectiles fired by police

The Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council condemns the excessive police violence and calls upon law enforcement to cease and desist these nearly lethal actions. Specifically, we demand the cessation of water cannons in subfreezing temperatures.

Our volunteers performed well under challenging circumstances last night, but we would not have been able to do this without the help of water protectors and local community members who transported patients to our clinic, organized warming spaces, and provided food and tea. We specifically want to thank the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe EMS services for their excellent response and highest quality care in an unprecedented situation. “They were phenomenal. They recognized the severity of what we were dealing with, it could have been a lot worse” said Jazmine, a volunteer physician from the Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council.

Donations for the medical and public health response can be made to the Standing Rock Medic & Healer council at www.medichealercouncil.com/donate.

Water is Life, Mni Wiconi

Signed,

Linda Black Elk, PhD, Ethnobotanist, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Michael Knudsen, MPH candidate, Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council Noah Morris, EMT Amelia Massucco, RN John Andrews, RN Kristina Golden, EMT, herbalist Sebastian Rodriguez, RN Rosemary Fister, RN, MNPHN, DNP Candidate Rupa Marya, MD, DoNoHarm Coalition, University of California – San Francisco David Kingfisher, MD, JD, Wichita State University Jesse Lopez, MD, Heartland Surgical Care Kalama O Ka Aina Niheu, MD, Aha Aloha Aina Howard Ehrman, MD, MPH, University of Illinois - Chicago Geeta Maker-Clark, MD, University of Chicago Elizabeth Friedman, MD Vanessa Bolin, ALS Paramedic