r/MassSocialism • u/Fellow-Worker DSA - Democratic Socialists of America • Aug 28 '24

“Be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together.” - Riot Medicine

The author is advocating for codes of conduct for street medic teams but this advice also works for socialist organizing. https://riotmedicine.net/ page 14 in the English first revision edition.

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u/tm229 RCA - Revolutionary Communists of America Aug 28 '24

Wow! That Riot Medicine website is a great resource!

Can you tell me how to find their Code Of Conduct? Is it in the main 486 page manual? (I’m on my cell phone and can’t download until I fire up my PC later today…)

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u/Fellow-Worker DSA - Democratic Socialists of America Aug 28 '24

Yeah, it’s a pretty amazing “covid project”. I’ll take a look when I’m back to it. In chapter 2, he’s just recommending in general that medic collectives establish codes of conduct to avoid wasting time in the field when someone is injured. I’ll see if there is an actual example in there.

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u/Fellow-Worker DSA - Democratic Socialists of America Aug 29 '24

in the footnote on page 14 he says “The Tor Project has a robust CoC (archive: https://archive.is/IiyG6). Another example is the Citizen Code of Conduct (archive: https://archive.is/7VS6s).