Indigenous Autonomy

Before you hit our DM’s! Check out the Story Highlights on our profile page for resources and information. It’s incredible how many people want training to be able to take better care of each other in the streets. We’ve lost track of all the requests, and it’s impossible for our small collective to respond individually, so please click through the links in our highlights. We’ve tried to make it easy to access information. If the story highlight has a “Swipe Up” button, it will link you directly to the original website. . With 4 years of experience, we may be considered baby medix when compared to some other collectives who have been doing this work for decades. We have learned so much from those who have established the framework for street medics and have shared best practices they’ve found through their trials by fire. We will keep sharing the guides they have created, so keep a look out for those. . Shout out to @bbyanarchists , who created this loving art for our Story Highlights covers, and for holding it down For The People. #FTP #frontlinemedics #communitymedics #streetmedics . Please consider supporting our work Cashapp: $medigurlie

Going to continue to share this probably every year for as long as there is a platform to do so and maybe every 30k followers. It’s an example of collective efforts I have taken part in after about a decade and a half of organizing & direct action. This isn’t even a complete comprehensive list. Just examples for new folks and work that was propagated thru many different social movements. All autonomous, meaning no 501c3 and/or without getting paid. Shout out to the folks who been doing this work in their affinities and often without funding from the state or government !! WE ALL WE GOT. WE KEEP US SAFE!! 🖤 💙 #autonomy #mutualaid #solidarity • Reposted from @inthistogether_la Sustaining the movement: 25 steps you can take beyond protesting 🌻 Can’t be in the streets? There’s still lots of ways you can help the fight. Which steps are you taking today? . Support friends who are attending actions . Establish community pop-up clinics . Organize childcare networking . Attend political education workshops . Provide tenant support and help with rent strike organizing . Establish ongoing study and book groups . Offer skill-sharing and trainings . Redistribute your wealth to individuals in need . Help with disaster relief . Create or redistribute art and media to counter mainstream propaganda . Amplify the calls for support from Black and Indigenous folks . Escort people to abortion clinics when needed . Uplift BIPOC queer and trans voices . Organize response and mediation for survivors . Support and listen to Black and Indigenous disabled people . Donate to weekly food programs . Organize towards general strikes . Film the police AKA copwatch . Monitor court cases . Financially and emotionally support detained and incarcerated people . Attend & organize neighborhood assemblies . Share vital info online . Raise funds for lands and people in need . Participate in community clean-ups . Signal-boost prison strikes and abolition efforts . . This list was mostly adapted from @frontlinemedics with a few additions and tweaks. Go follow them for vital info. . . Design help by @inthistogether_la . . . #dailyactions #turtleisland #virtualorganizing #organize

Notes For Bridge Trainings & Beginners: Security & Safety Part 1 & 2 • Sharing this(again) in case anything pops off after this year’s elections, and specifically for any health care workers unsure about their role within resistance culture. The health care industry and professions are still on stolen lands, and medical breakthroughs have expanded by the torture of captive populations aka enslaved Black people. We’ve been encouraging decentralized groups of medical persnnel and health care workers to take your practice out of the ivory towers and oppressive institutions and back into the streets and to the lands where they came from. • Here is helpful information meant for encouraging you to build the skills and networks necessary for our ongoing survival. As we face[d] neglect, genocide, cruelty, pandemics, displacement, commodification and recuperation. • Shout out to comrades & relatives in these professions doing all they can to reappropriate or often steal back knowledge & resources needed for colonized people’s survival. • Sourced from our Safety & Security curriculum created and communally added to since 2017, meant to give an intro into street medic*ing and brief hxstory of EMS. Other sources from experience, anti-colonial/anti-capitalist perspective, Chicago Action Medical Handbook and Health & Safety At Militant Actions Zine. Please share! h/t @bbyanarchists for FIRST AID image in Slide 5 ( IMPORTANT NOTE IF USING RADIO COMMS: For every 1 persn listening in on an open station, 4 people are likely to be listening into said open station) *Don’t use real names or reveal sensitive information when communicating over the radio *Establish proper radio etiquette that suits your affinity *Charge batteries or have extra on hand ⛑️The folks behind this page & efforts are not a 501c3 or non profit, to support our collective efforts our cashapp is $medigurlies

Take care of each other 🤲🏽 Please help support Yang and her family. Link in @indigenousiconyang bio. Veronica (Yang) Toledo is a full time guardian to her three younger siblings. In recent weeks, she lost her full time job and has been spending her days by her mother’s side in the ICU. As she cares for her family during this incredibly difficult time, she is also facing the financial burden of covering rent, bills, groceries, and transportation expenses. If you are able to contribute, any amount would be deeply appreciated. If donating is not possible, sharing this post with your community can make a meaningful difference! Direct donations: Venmo: @yangtoledo PayPal: @tanals Cash App: @hellokitty5002 Gofundme: https://gofund.me/ada48a74d Please keep her, her mother, and her siblings in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you for showing up for a family that needs our collective support right now. ❤️ Chi Miigwech

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OOF… but we love a good read from @/shakingsheets #hantavirus #coronavirus #nobodycaresaboutyourbeat 😷

Brush up on digital and irl security culture. Repost from @wearealreadygathered • you see how we don’t post identifying information about our gatherings’ attendees? very mindful. so we’ve been talking about surveillance tech and the channels our data flows through…now let’s talk about what kind of data we should protect and how. here’s a zine we made about what sensitive info is, and how to protect it. #opsec #digitalprivacy #zinetech

This horror show that probably explains something about health disparities in the USA and why the University of California assaulted its own students standing against Israel’s genocide is screening on youtube. This was sent to me by @ucsd.divest and is the work of several incredibly brave journalists, medical students, faculty and staff. Students made me aware of this in 2023 and it took almost two years to get the story out in a well researched impeccable manner. I was not able to speak to the horror then but it shaped everything I said and was punished for by UCSF which is a part of this unethical program. Please watch and amplify. Fascism thrives in silence. Speak up. XO, Dr Rupa ❤️‍🔥—> /watch?v=GXkfo_ImlUk&pp=0gcJCU8Co7VqN5tD&ra=m

Here’s a look at our new and improved zine for our beloved friend Des! It’s available as an imposed PDF for you to read, print, and distro at our support website: (under the “Get Involved” tab, and then the sub-tab labeled “Resources”). We urge you to share it far and wide, both to build awareness about the criminalization of political speech and to support Des. The cover features an adorable photo of Des holding some of his artwork, and continues to assert that “zines are a not a crime,” but more important, that Des should be free. Inside you’ll find text about who Des is, what support he needs and desires, and the Prairieland case in general along with the case related to Des specifically. There’s also a statement from Des. And perhaps best of you, the zine is filled with some of Des’s amazing artwork. We’re looking forward to seeing the zine “in the wild,” so feel free to send us photos via our DM, tag us in posts about it, and/or invite us to collaborate on posts that focus on this beautiful new zine. Free Des Revol Free all the Prairieland defendants Free them all With love and abiding solidarity from the Des Support Committee

Justice for Aboriginal Kumanjayi girl! @trtworld : Protesters clashed with police outside Australia’s Alice Springs Hospital, after the arrest of Aboriginal man, Jefferson Lewis, a 47-year-old man police suspect of abducting and killing five-year-old Indigenous girl. Police said Lewis was taken into custody after locals found and beat him, while authorities appealed for calm as hundreds gathered outside the hospital

on may 5th, we demand justice for our missing and murdered indigenous women, girls, queer, two spirit and men relatives. time does not soften settler colonialism. american and canadian occupation and genocide of our people did not end. it adapted to create the conditions for our people to be stolen and murdered without justice. land back and rematriation is not symbolic, it is is necessary to heal the earth and restore balance. justice for our people and the land is not a movement, its inevitable. this is far from all the names of our relatives— if I missed anyone please add their names in the comments ♥️ Art by my sis @jackiefawn Photos by my talented and self taught sister @nedahnessgreene #landback #mmiw #mmiwgt2s #reddressday #nomorestolensisters

From @teachingaltar1 on ⏰ app #protectpesla