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DESCRIPTION:This is a progressive 8 hour workshop for all in the community!   Holistic 
 Disaster Preparation: \nHerbs & First Aid For A Community-Based 
 Response\n\nThis Workshop will discuss the basics of an organized 
 alternative response & will give you skills you can use in your daily life 
 to create the world you want to live in!\n\nFriday, May 25, 7-9 PM & 
 Saturday May 26, 9AM -4PM\n\nHurricane Katrina revealed massive 
 deficiencies in the government’s ability to respond to natural disasters. 
  But the seeds of the disaster in the Gulf Coast were sowed by decades of 
 racist and oppressive social neglect that left levees, public health, 
 education and housing systems in shambles. The real disaster in New Orleans 
 is occurring now almost two years after Katrina has passed. Displaced 
 residents daily battle the governments and disaster capitalists for the 
 right to return to their city. Neighborhoods are still struggling against 
 gentrification and big industries to get affordable housing, functioning 
 school and health care systems as well as access to adequate food.  Is the 
 Bay Area’s social infrastructure any stronger than what existed in New 
 Orleans before the storm? What weaknesses in our system would a natural 
 disaster expose? Are we prepared to respond to the next major disaster in 
 the Bay Area?\nThis training is for people wanting to support communities 
 working for self-determination before, and after disasters of any kind. We 
 offer individuals basic first aid skills useful for surviving natural 
 disasters. We emphasize herbal medicine as an accessible, and effective 
 form of health care.  Instructors will draw upon our experiences as health 
 care advocates & practitioners, street medics, & volunteers at Common 
 Ground Health Clinic in New Orleans.\n\nAs climate change brings on 
 unprecedented natural disasters will the Bay Area reach out to those 
 communities it has historically neglected?  . Can we stand in solidarity 
 with threatened communities now so that when disaster hits no one will be 
 left to starve on their rooftops?\n\nPrepare & Respond to Emergency 
 Situations.\n\n•  Learn About Basic First Aid Skills Using Wilderness 
 Medicine & Western Herbalism.\n•  Get to Know Locally Grown Herbs to Add 
 to Your Emergency First Aid Kit.\n•  Herbal Treatments for Injuries, 
 Ailments, & Stress\n•  Grow Herbs In Urban Areas.\n•  Learn about 
 Aftercare & Health & Safety Tips.\n•  Long-term Strategies & Resources 
 for Community Self-Reliance.\nIt is possible for individuals to acquire 
 life skills needed to survive natural disasters, and to live healthier 
 lives in general. What the government refuses to do, we can. We all need to 
 come alive and recognize our collective healing potential; the need is 
 urgent.\n\nThe skills and knowledge from this 8 hour work shop are meant to 
 empower and inspire us to organize throughout our communities. Instructors 
 will draw upon our experiences as health care advocates & practitioners, 
 street medics, & volunteers at Common Ground Health Clinic in New 
 Orleans.\n\n $70.00 sliding scale; no one turned away. (Proceeds will go to 
 the Ohlone Center of Herbal Studies) RSVP.  \n dixieb@riseup.net\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/24/18420668.php
SUMMARY:Holistic Disaster Preparation: Herbs & 1st Aid for A Community Response
LOCATION:The Humanist Hall: 390   27th  Street,  midtown Oakland\nbetween Telegraph 
 and Broadway,  below Pill Hill. 
 \nhttp://www.humanisthall.net/DIRECTIONS.htm
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/24/18420668.php
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