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People's Community Medics

Each One Teach One!

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GRASSROOTS


We are a grassroots organization and we teach basic emergency first aid skills free of charge.
The People’s Community Medics (PCM) was founded in the summer of 2011 by Sharena Thomas and Lesley Phillips. As members of the Oscar Grant Committee we learned that the BART police refused to call an ambulance for 20 minutes for fatally wounded Oscar Grant, despite the passionate pleas for medical help from his friends who were detained at the Fruitvale station by the police. That experience as well as our knowledge that 911 calls often do not result in an ambulance arriving in a timely manner to Black, Brown and poor neighborhoods largely inspired us to teach our people basic emergency first aid so that we can help one another until an ambulance arrives.

EACH ONE TEACH ONE



We conduct trainings on sidewalks, in parks, in communities. Because no one should die waiting for an ambulance.
We all can learn to save a life. We are the ones that we've been waiting for.

Support People's Community Medics!

Thank you beautiful community members for supporting us after the car robbery on November 29th. We raised $725 in one day; $130 above our goal. These funds will enable us to replace EVERYTHING that was stolen and then some as the struggle continues and medic support will be needed. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT.

‪Please contribute to our ongoing fundraising campaign!

Your donations will help us restock medical supplies and provide transportation to our free trainings.

People's Community Medics in the news!

Download Sarah Goodyear's December 2013 article "Why Jean Quan Failed Oakland’s Grass Roots, Having Reached a Turning Point, the East Bay City Yearns for a Leader" - featuring People's Community Medics.

You can listen here to an award winning KALW documentary that aired October 8, 2013, "A Race to an Emergency" featuring the People's Community Medics. This piece won an Edward R. Murrow award for excellent radio documentary.

Listen to People's Community Medics on KPFA's Morning Mix with Davey D. Read about us in The San Francisco Bayview or in the East Bay Express. Don't miss CBS News coverage here

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You can reach us at 510-239-7720 or PeoplesCommunityMedics@gmail.com. Visit our Facebook Page!

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