Posts Tagged ‘healing’
ACHÉ! The First Alternative Womyn’s Health & Wellness Cooperative in the South Bronx
8:07 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism|Health|New York City|Women · Comments Off
6 Sep 2009This makes so happy. Hopefully it can be an inspiration for other communities, not just across New York City but across the country. This isn’t health care reform. This is health care revolution!
Celebrate with CASA – The Launching of ACHÉ!
The First Alternative Womyn’s Health & Wellness Cooperative in the South BronxCasa is launching the first Womyn’s Alternative Health and Wellness Cooperative – ACHÉ (Alternative Cooperative for Healing & Empowerment) for young and adult womyn this Fall. Inspired by the womyn in the Zapatista community and their organizing & movement building for autonomy, we are creating our model for sustainable and accessible healthcare for community, activist & organizers. The cooperative will support the health and wellness needs of womyn while being a respite to integrate self care into their daily practice and heal from internalized oppression.
ACHE will have spirituality, culture & human rights at the core of its sustainability. We use earth based spirituality to create sacred space to align ourselves with the healing elements of the season for the healing of our mind, body and spirit. Join our monthly healing circles(a monthly healing women’s group to break the silence of issues affecting community women including trauma of DV, violence, sexual assault, self mutilation, low self esteem, disordered eating etc.)We also offer complementary workshops such as: yoga, reiki, alternative fitness, afro-Caribbean rhythms, healing remedies, acupressure, meditation, and more.
JOIN OUR HEALERS NETWORK TODAY!
We are looking for health practitioners, curanderas, folk healers, midwives, organizers, artist, etc. to join our Womyn of Color Healers Network, which will regularly provide free or low cost health care and wellness classes and trainings that include self gyn examinations, childbirth, STD/HIV prevention and alternative care, herbal medicine, nutrition, healthy meal preparation, holistic therapies, natural medicine treatment of weak immune systems, and trauma.
Institutionally accepted violence against youths
2:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children · Comments Off
17 Dec 2008
The following is the testimonio of several men about the horrors they experienced while living in a ‘correctional’ youth home in the 1950s and 60s. Some of the abuse detailed is so horrible, it’s hard to stomach. If you can handle it, please read it, please read their testimonies, and then consider–Is there a better way to treat our children? A better way to treat our children that (god forbid) misbehave?
One day in the late 1950s, Richard Colon was working in the school’s laundry room. After a long bathroom break, Colon, then a student inmate in his early teens, said he returned and found the room empty and quiet, except for one tumble dryer that was running.
A young boy had been shoved into it, he said.
“I looked around and I thought ‘I could help him, but if I do, what will they do to me?’” he said, assuming the boy had been forced into the dryer as punishment. “So I left him. And he died.”
“I think about him every day,” said Colon, now 65 and living in Baltimore. “I think to myself, I could have opened that door and I didn’t. That torments me.”
Colon says he does not know what happened to the boy’s body or who forced him into the dryer. But he and a group of men who were students at the school during the 1950s and 1960s believe his remains may be buried among 32 unmarked graves recently discovered near the school, where they suspect boys who were killed at the school were dumped.
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