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====== Black Panthers Movement and Care ====== | ====== Black Panthers Movement and Care ====== | ||
+ | It is well-known that the Black Panther Party' | ||
+ | It was a tall order, born of the belief that theory and practice need to work in tandem, with tangible benefits being given to under-resourced communities. The clinics were called People' | ||
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+ | The ethos of the PFMCs was simple: " | ||
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+ | ===== Panther members Studying Nursing in China ===== | ||
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+ | One of the political and philosophical role models for the Black Panther Party was Chairman Mao of the Peoples Republic of China. Part of Mao’s cultural revolution was to sort of change the way the health care operated in China. And, that included the emergence and training of the members of society from people who were not the elite in any society who wanted to train these people called **Barefoot Doctors**. That was meant for two things; one, is that there are some Chinese medicine and daily practices that we should attend to and keep and we shouldn’t get rid of these practices and go to a Western scientific model. | ||
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+ | And, it was also the case that these barefoot doctors were meant to valorize the role of the people, as the people’s experience with illness as being important for the healing process. | ||
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+ | I think two or three Panthers go, between the course of 1970 and 1972, to China. And, during one of these tours, a doctor named Dr. Tolbert Small [went]. He never formally joined the Black Panther Party, but he worked with them for years. | ||
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+ | Dr. Small goes on one of these tours of China and he get’s introduced to acupuncture, | ||
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===== Militants / artists / practionners ===== | ===== Militants / artists / practionners ===== | ||
+ | ==== Dr. Tolbert Small ==== | ||
+ | Although, never officially a Black Panther member, Tolbert Small was the official physician to Oakland’s chapter of the Black Panther Party. | ||
+ | Tolbert Small continues to serve the community now as "the people' | ||
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==== Milford Graves ==== | ==== Milford Graves ==== | ||
Not a panther himself, Milford Graves is a free jazz drummer and percussionist, | Not a panther himself, Milford Graves is a free jazz drummer and percussionist, | ||
+ | He is considered to be a free jazz pioneer, liberating the percussion from its timekeeping role. In fact, many of his music contemporaries, | ||
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==== Veronza Bowers Jr.==== | ==== Veronza Bowers Jr.==== | ||
is an inmate at the Federal Correctional Facility in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party incarcerated in federal prison for over 37 years making him one of the longest-held political prisoners in U.S. history.In the 37-plus years of his confinement, | is an inmate at the Federal Correctional Facility in Atlanta, Georgia. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party incarcerated in federal prison for over 37 years making him one of the longest-held political prisoners in U.S. history.In the 37-plus years of his confinement, | ||
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===== Ressources ===== | ===== Ressources ===== | ||
* [[http:// | * [[http:// | ||
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