Boosting this Public Health project that is a model for other professions (ahem social work, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, etc.)
A pledge for public health professionals & researchers to NOT collaborate with law enforcement, incl federal, state, county, or local police and ICE.
Some recent examples of how this can be done-
A powerful medium piece by a doctor who refused to treat a man without his consent just because the police tried to make her and her awareness of how her profession has been used to harm: zora.medium.com/the-police-tri…
What if paramedics and EMTs refused to punitively and dangerously administer ketamine just because police instructed them to? We would still have #ElijahMcClain and dozens of others whose names we will never know: thecut.com/2020/06/elijah…
My recent piece about how we don't need more social workers in police departments to solve the problems of racist police violence. Our profession could separate itself from law enforcement, but it doesn't: filtermag.org/social-workers…
An excellent piece out just this week by @CamRasNYC and @DocJae75 about what Abolitionist Social Work could look like if we were true to the liberatory potential of our code of ethics: truthout.org/articles/tradi…
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