Hi WC4BL members,
This year, White Coats for Black Lives is partnering with Beyond Do No Harm, an abolitionist coalition of healthcare workers and organizations under the umbrella of Interrupting Criminalization. Interrupting Criminalization is an abolitionist project led by Mariame Kaba and Andrea Ritchie.
Beyond Do No Harm is releasing the principles (see below) of the coalition with a virtual launch event on Thursday, November 3, from 6:30-8:30PM EST. Please RSVP for the event here: bit.ly/BDNHLaunch.
If you'd like to sign on to these principles as an individual, please do so here: https://tinyurl.com/NetworkBDNH
After the launch party we'll begin holding national conversations about how we as medical students, residents, and attendings can organize locally to bring these principles into practice.
Hope that you can join us.
Charlotte
on behalf of the White Coats for Black Lives National Working Group
- End police and ICE presence in hospitals and in or near health care facilities
- End medically unnecessary information gathering, documentation, and surveillance
- End medically unnecessary testing without consent
- End the practice of calling police upon suspicion of fraudulent identification documents
- Stop calling police on people with unmet mental health needs
- Stop calling police on people in possession, distributing, or using drugs
- End mandatory reporting
- Stop supporting prosecution in cases against people who manage their own care or offer community-based care, fail to seek care, or fail to disclose their private medical information
- Stop the practice of supporting prosecution in the transmission of infectious diseases
- Stop the practice of supporting prosecution in cases related to overdose
- Stop providing and/or sanctioning substandard/violative care for people who are in custody or incarcerated in jails, prisons, detention centers, residential centers, group homes, and state facilities
- Stop punishing other health providers, public health workers, and researchers by calling police on them, reporting them for disciplinary action, or terminating their employment for their refusal to participate in systems of harm.
- End collaborating with the criminal punishment system in the evaluation of people as competent to stand on trial, in experiments or sterilization on people who are incarcerated, in the facilitation of torture, or in the death penalty
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