Part One: Street Medics: The People Who Wash Pepperspray Out of Your Eyes

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🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks to Kaveh Hoda about the decentralized medical infrastructure that keeps protesters safe.

Sources:

non-public training documents provided by a street medic friend
https://www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall10/street-medic/street-medic.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20250220125506/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5024403/
http://web.archive.org/web/20241028174039/https://massleague.org/CHC/History.php
https://web.archive.org/web/20250212163349/https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medical-committee-human-rights/2014-09

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/health/h-jack-geiger-dead.html

https://medium.com/@Hesperian/care-for-where-there-is-no-justice-the-modern-history-of-street-medics-and-how-they-support-social-a02e940523d4
https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/416-spring-2025/the-praxis-of-street-medics/

https://mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/kupdf.net_street-medic-handbook.pdf
https://tabpres.org/the-flying-black-medics/
https://web.archive.org/web/20071220215141/http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/02704493.htm

https://archive.org/stream/street-medic-guide-paper-revolution-collective-

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