Initiatives

Update: 3D Printing Lab

Work is progressing at a steady pace with the lab for 3D printing tourniquets, as the ability to autonomously create devices for medical work is very important. These are the first little steps with production of medical devices accessible to community.

Education, Knowledge and Skill Share

We see education as an accumulation and development of decentralized knowledge, and emancipatory technology & science. In the name Medical Self-Defense Network, self-defense does not point to reaction, but to our philosophy and practice. As mentioned in our manifesto: “…healing,…

Solidarity Apothecary & Ukraine Herbal Solidarity

The mission of the Solidarity Apothecary is to materially support communities with plant medicines to strengthen collective autonomy, self-defense and resilience to climate change, capitalism and state violence. Their main focus is making and distributing plant medicines to people experiencing…

Emergency Medicine: Far Forward

Strikes are no longer limited to a battlefield, nor can a battlefield be easily defined. The points of attack target can be the schools people used to go to when they were children, the local markets or hospitals. This creates…

3D Printed Tourniquets

During the fight against the Islamic state, and later against Turkey, more than 12,000 people were killed in North East Syria. The Red Crescent, the health structures within the local administration as well as international combat medic groups were engaged…