Re: Guide to safety and victory

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:11 AM, <transistor@hushmail.com> wrote:

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Ayla, wanted you to meet this fellow who contacted me regarding
guides and translations. Ayla is a physician who's been in charge
of several of our efforts; I think we can make use of your guide
and meanwhile we can probably help you with translating. Thanks for
getting in touch.

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Hey Barrett,

I read the article at the daily kos and saw your email in the
comments. I am one of the medics working on the
http://m4t.wikidot.com/ project, which is medical information that
came out of the history of European and North American street medic
movements (this email address, by the way, is read and used by
several
of us). All the stuff on m4t is anticopyright and can be clipped and
shared with or without attribution, although the Arabic and French
are
sparse and some of the Arabic is poorly written.

I saw that the daily kos article was in English and French. If you
have contact with any translators that you could swing over to m4t
we
could really use them. If you check out the recent changes, you can
see that most of the work has been done by or submitted through a
single editor, and that translations are moving slow. The teargas
info
on the daily kos looks familiar, including stuff now on m4t
(original
source before editing: Black Cross Health Collective, active for a
few
years after Seattle WTO battles in 1999 but now defunct).

One of the things that people on the ground in Egypt especially are
dealing with is aftercare from breathing smoke from burning tyres
and
teargas. Nasty bronchitis (sometimes with brown mucus) and fears
that
it is worse because of expired teargas the police were using. But
the
CS and CN chemicals in teargas are shelf stable, and the effect of
expiration is just more duds from propellant degradation. Otherwise
standard teargas morbidity (combined with being in close quarters
with
big crowds, all bringing their own lung bacteria and viruses, with
the
lowered immunity that happens under stress).

One thing medics have learned in the lest 40 years is that aftercare
is paramount. If people leave street battles bitter and traumatized
and do not do self care and take care of each other, they lose their
commitment to the uprising / people, or even become bitter, selfish,
active enemies of the people. Only through love and care as they
recover do people develop a lifelong commitment and a lifelong sense
of civic responsibility. Important because tactics change, but
wisdom
of "movement elders" with long-term commitment is paramount for
lasting success. And elders are made.

Please be in contact. But also, if you know any skilled editors /
designers / translators, m4t could use a helping hand.
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