2313 San Pablo Ave
Oakland, CA 94612
USA
Join us for the first coalition gathering of the Qilombo Healers Collective! Help us build a permanent healing space with ongoing programming that promotes autonomous, accessible and holistic healthcare in our communities. The Medical Industrial Complex has never given us meaningful options for accessible holistic healing. With TrumpCare threatening to cut MedicAid to 22 million low-income people across the country, the need for autonomy from America’s failed health system is more important than ever. We want to spread health and wellness knowledge and empower our communities to care for ourselves, rather than relying on the profit-driven healthcare system that values their bottomline over our lives.
We are group of about 10 healers and health educators from a wide range of backgrounds and modalities. We have been meeting since February developing our vision for an autonomous network of groups and organizations dedicated to decentralizing health knowledge and sharing our skills, practices and traditions with the community. We are renting a room in Qilombo, and have converted it into a permanent healing space. We hope to use this space as a home base for coordinating a series of classes, workshops and healing clinics, as well as a free or low-cost space for healers to practice their crafts.
So far we have been coordinating with members of the People’s Community Medics, the Healing Clinic Collective, the Black Wellness Collaborative: Healing with the People, and several herbalist, yoga teachers, massage therapist, sounds healers and Reiki practitioners. We have also reached out to a self-defense collective, a free clinic and several HIV prevention and education organizations. We are welcoming all groups and individuals who share our vision to help us build this project and coordinate our existing work to strengthen and support each other in the hard times ahead.
Please RSVP and share this event with your friends, collectives, organizations and anyone who shares our vision who you think would be interested in participating and/or sharing their knowledge and resources.
See you on the 15th!
Solidarity,
The Qilombo Healers Collective