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[Video] Earth Skills Workshop: Restoring Health, Childbirth & Independence from Industrial Medicine

MG co-hosted the first Earth Skills training of 2012 in March. The topic was “Restoring Health, Childbirth & Independence from Industrial Medicine.” The opening panel featured 4 amazing speakers, with an introduction by Carla Perez (MG). Thank you again to ReCLAIM, our speakers, all of those who tabled at the resource fair, and everyone who attended the event. Enjoy the videos of each powerful presentation here, and make sure to check out the resource/organizational links to learn more about each person’s work!

Part 1: Carla Perez, Movement Generation
Introduction; independence from industrial medicine and the ecological crisis

Part 2: Shanelle Matthews, Forward Together & Black Women Birthing Justice Collective
The politicization of birth work and reproductive justicePart 3: Atava Garcia Swiecicki, Ancestral Apothecary Healing Services & ReCLAIM member
Practicing traditional, plant-based healing and challenging industrial medicinePart 4: Sara Flores, Registered Nurse & Founder of ReCLAIM
ReCLAIM, midwifery, and dismantling the colonial legacy of biomedicinePart 5: Deshaye Faughtner, Muse of Healing Acupuncture & Wellness Center & ReCLAIM member
Acupuncture, access to healthcare services, reconnecting with our bodies

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Resilience-Based Organizing Applying our labor to directly meet our needs through shared work, democratic self-governance and, ultimately, confronting and transforming unjust policy as a critical ingredient for ecological restoration and community resilience.
Climate Justice Alliance / Our Power Campaign The Climate Justice Alliance has launched the national Our Power Campaign to win real solutions to the climate crisis – solutions that will foster quality jobs that meet people’s needs while caring for the natural resources and ecosystems we depend on.
Earth Skills Training Program A series of interactive, land-based workshops designed to help us restore and manage our relationship to our own work and to the resources that meet our basic needs.
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[Video] Earth Skills Workshop: Restoring Health, Childbirth & Independence from Industrial Medicine