Vermont: Health Autonomy Convergence, Oct. 18-20

From Health Autonomy Convergence: NORTHEAST

Following in the footsteps of the Health Autonomy Convergence last year, we are inviting health care workers and healers to a northeast regional gathering in Southern Vermont October 18-20, 2024. Come to connect, learn, and build solidarity as we figure out how to be humans in a dehumanizing healthcare system.

Call for Proposals

From a Deep Rage that is Inflamed

From Informativo Anarquista, Via Abolition Media

Statement on Health of Anarchist Prisoner Amadeu Casellas

At the beginning of this month they sent us a very disturbing alert that caught us all by surprise. Amadeu Casellas was in a coma in the ICU. Fifteen days earlier, Amadeu made a call to tell us that he had felt ill and that, from prison, he left to go to the hospital, being admitted until the weekend.

“Every Day There’s a New Apocalypse”

From It's Going Down

An Interview with an Anarchist Medical Volunteer in Gaza

What follows is an interview with Louis, an anarchist humanitarian aid worker who, at the time of this interview, is waiting in Amman, Jordan to enter Gaza for a second deployment providing volunteer medical services in the midst of the ongoing genocide. He was previously in Gaza for a month this spring.

News of Chomsky’s Poor Health Prompts Outpouring of Gratitude

Via Abolition Media

News that renowned American linguist, anarchist and author Noam Chomsky is hospitalized in Brazil following a massive stroke he suffered last year was met with an avalanche of accolades and well wishes from members of the international left on Wednesday.

Text by Nikos Maziotis on the Health Care Conditions in Domokos Prison

Via Abolition Media

According to the law, the health care of prisoners is proportional to the care of the rest of the population (Article 27 (1) of the Penitentiary Code). But that is not really the case. Lack of medical staff, lack of doctors, delays in transfers of detainees to hospitals, special security measures and procedures in some cases such as mine, make the supposed right to care a dead letter.

Seize the Hospitals! …But How?

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation By Healthcare Worker Members of BRRN Labor Committee

In May of 2023 several Black Rose / Rosa Negra (BRRN) Militants organizing in the healthcare sector attended the Health Autonomy Convergence (HAC) in Durham, North Carolina. This is their collective reflection on and analysis of the event and of the prospects for radical labor organizing in healthcare more generally.

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