In this episode of Wine, Women, and Revolution, Heather is joined by a comrade, Pinky to talk about street medicine. Pinky has been trained and served as a street medic at a number of events. They talk about some of specifics of doing medicine in a protest environment as well as some basics that you could use yourself if there is some reason you cant reach a doctor.

This episode if the first of a multipart series about mutual aid and self and community care for challenging times. things are tumultuous and the world is changing. This series will help you be more prepared for whatever the world throws at you.

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Pinky 0:00
There was a particular joining between recognizing the need for Community Health alongside different groups, primarily, the Black Panthers was one to recognize that need

Heather Warburton 0:18
This is Wine, Women and Revolution with your host, Heather Warburton. Hi, and welcome to Wine Women and Revolution. I’m your host Heather Warburton coming at you here on Create Your Future Productions. You can find us online at www dot your future creator . com. Follow us on all the social medias and get us wherever you get your podcast from. Today. Well, let me start off first with a little disclaimer for this. I’m not a medical professional, the person I’m interviewing is not a medical professional. So neither one of us are trained practicing doctors. But we are going to be talking a little bit about street medicine tonight. And this is kind of the first episode in a new series, I’m going to start bringing you practical skills on how to survive whatever may be coming. Things are kind of tumultuous right now. We don’t really know what the future looks like there. civil unrest, climate change, just natural disasters, there’s all kinds of things that really kind of could be impacting us in the future. So I’m going to lay out some practical organizing survival. And as we’re talking about today’s street medicine skills for you guys to really use no matter what situation you might find yourself in. So without further ado, let me introduce to you my guest. They’re a good comrade of mine. I’ve known them for years now we’ve organized together Pinky, welcome to the show.

Pinky 1:46
Hey, Heather, thanks so much. Thank you for having me.

Heather Warburton 1:49
Thank you for being here. Like I said, You’re a great comrade. I love some of the work you’re you guys doing with your organizations that you’re a part of. But tonight I really wanted to talk about you’ve been trained in street medicine, right?

Pinky 2:02
Correct. Yeah. So I can give a little bit of, you know, my own personal background, as well as kind of general history in this part of the world, we’re getting straight medicine, and really where it came from, and then kind of what that looks like.

Heather Warburton 2:17
Perfect.

Pinky 2:17
I have been doing street medic work for about, I would say, a year and a half, two years roughly, in New Jersey, and you know, our surrounding region. And kind of what made me feel more comfortable slipping into that role, as opposed to other roles that I’ve had is just kind of some ancillary background in terms of just more professional stuff that I’ve done. So I’m first aid certified and CPR certified, and have done that informally as a part of different jobs that I’ve had. So that was something I felt comfortable doing, obviously, not in the capacity of a doctor or anything like that. But I felt confident in terms of typical or average things you would see within the context of protests, or, you know, being on the street for a variety of different capacities.

So really, I guess where the, I guess history of street medicine can be traced in the