News and Updates

Updates from actions, behind-the-scenes looks at our medical and training work, and writing that challenges unsafe systems in healthcare and public safety. This is where we share what we’re seeing, learning, and fighting for.

Street Medicine and Black History

Street Medicine and Black History

The Hill District of Pittsburgh had a serious problem in the 1960s. While ambulance services were poor across most of the city, service was non-existent in the predominantly black Hill District. Despi...

Activism EMS Healthcare History Workers Rights

Feb 15, 2026

Nurses in the News

Nurses in the News

To start the year, nurses and the profession of nursing are, again, taking a prominent place in the dialogue of public events. Earlier this year, the Dept of Education removed ‘professional occupation...

Current Events Healthcare Nurses Rights Union Workers Rights

Feb 11, 2026

It Will Always be "Them", Until it is "Us"

It Will Always be "Them", Until it is "Us"

There are a handful of thoughts that continue coming back into my mind's eye, revolving in the space of my daily life like planets large and small that eclipse my focus when I'm doing routine tasks li...

Jan 27, 2026

Alex Pretti - Murdered for Bearing Witness

Alex Pretti - Murdered for Bearing Witness

We are saddened. We are sickened. We are seething. This morning, Border Patrol Agents murdered a protester in Minneapolis. It was daylight. It was in the middle of a cleared street. It was unprovoked....

Current Events Healthcare ICE

Jan 24, 2026

Apple Juice and Eggs, and another Murder

Apple Juice and Eggs, and another Murder

This is happening today. Another person was shot and killed by ICE today, and I am standing in my kitchen trying to process it while my morning looks exactly like it always does. Eggs on the stove. Ap...

Jan 24, 2026

Delaying is the Treatment Plan

Delaying is the Treatment Plan

On January 21st, we stood outside the GEO facility and held a vigil because staying quiet never is an option. What’s happening inside that building is causing real quantifiable harm, and we need to sh...

Activism Colorado Corporations Direct Actions Healthcare ICE

Jan 21, 2026

EMS Isn't Broken. It's Being Squeezed to Death

EMS Isn't Broken. It's Being Squeezed to Death

If you want to understand why EMS is falling apart in this country, stop pretending it’s because we’re “burned out” and start looking at the corporations that turned emergency medicine into a race to ...

Activism Corporations EMS Healthcare Workers Rights

Jan 20, 2026

NYC Nurses are striking for the same reasons Colorado nurses keep sounding the alarm

NYC Nurses are striking for the same reasons Colorado nurses keep sounding the alarm

The nurses striking in New York City aren’t doing anything extreme. They’re doing what nurses everywhere end up doing when the system refuses to listen. They’re standing up and saying conditions are u...

Activism Colorado Current Events Healthcare Rights Union Workers Rights

Jan 20, 2026

Open Letter from a Healthcare Worker on State Sanctioned Violence

Open Letter from a Healthcare Worker on State Sanctioned Violence

I am a healthcare worker. My entire job is to keep people alive. To de-escalate. To slow shit down when everything is going sideways. To protect human life, even when it’s messy, even when it’s inconv...

Activism Current Events ICE Police Rights

Jan 20, 2026