Help the Frontline Medics Delegation Learn!

We are a group of four, queer, trans, non-binary, bipoc organizers, medically trained individuals, herbalists, and artists requesting support from friends, comrades, and allies, to attend the 24th annual Doctors for Global Health Assembly taking place on Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui territory, also known as Tucson, Arizona. We are excited about this year’s Assembly focus on Healing Justice: Undoing Borders That Divide Us.

We find it valuable to equip ourselves with the proper networks, skills, and knowledge to continue supporting the self-determination of our migrant & asylum seeking communities that also take into account an array of intersecting identities that have been erased within these narratives. 

Though we all received the Sandy Kemp Memorial Scholarship to attend the assembly, this only covers cost of entry.
By donating to us, you will be helping fund travel expenses, accommodations, and a portion of the event cost. This will allow us to integrate into the event and facilitate avenues to make these topics and education more accessible. You will be helping build grassroots systems made to defend, care for, and advocate for people of all backgrounds beyond just migration status. As people committed to the well being of our communities, your support means a lot in terms of allowing us to access these spaces and pools of knowledge that we find important to progressing the liberation of our peoples.

We believe that public health goes beyond just our medicine, but involves the most broad sense of well being through organizing, activist work, and mutual aid. We believe that this assembly is an important resource to build solidarity networks and infrastructure for our wider communities to move beyond solely relying on medical or academic institutions to acquire knowledge and support. As people already invested in this work, we believe there is a need to decentralize health practices, and share them within our own local, national, and global networks with the goal  to empower any group of people to promote a healthier community beyond just our institutional systems.

Through this assembly we hope to learn more ways to understand health in a global context, become better advocates specifically to those criminalized by the same systems made to help, examining privilege, and foster more support networks within our own organizing. 

MUCH GRATITUDE FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT!

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About Frontline Medics
Frontline medics is a collective committed to providing our communities of resistance with aid and support.

The underlying motivation of our work is to decentralize medical knowledge, focusing on communities that do not have access to and who historically have been subject to discrimination and dehumanization by the medical industrial complex.

We formed several years ago after our firsthand experiences in dealing with police brutality and disaster situations, and after seeing the vacuum that exists of womxn and femmes of color with an anti-colonial political analysis who are trained to respond to medical emergencies. 

You can see documentation of our work on our Instagram account, from volunteering as street medics during community rallies/protests, to organizing mutual aid responses during the wildfires that have been ravaging the coast, and most recently training asylum seekers at the border to deal with tear gas decontamination.
IG handle @FrontlineMedics
FB: facebook.com/frontlinemedics

About Doctors for Global health
Doctors for Global Health (DGH) is a private, not-for-profit organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. DGH is comprised of hundreds of health professionals, students, educators, artists, attorneys, engineers, retirees and others. Together we build long-term relationships between people and communities around the world to find effective solutions to social justice issues.

About Color Coded Collective
We are a POC-only transformative space that centers historically-excluded people in the co-teaching, co-creation, and co-ownership of new technologies. Our work supports and amplifies groups and individuals who are uplifting and sustaining communities of color—in Los Angeles and beyond. Together, we advance sustainable, community-centric projects to stay life long learners, protect our families, defend our hoods, decolonize and indigenize, liberate ourselves, grow collective wealth, and thrive!

Color coded is a commitment to the health, dignity, and liberation of black & indigenous communities. we collaborate and support organizations committed to this work.  

Color Coded’s #WeGotYou Funds are fiscally sponsored by Solidarity Research Center, a registered 501(c)3 tax exempt organization. All funds go directly toward providing resources, research, and technical assistance in support of building solidarity economy infrastructure in so-called United States.