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...real democratic basis of the occupation lies in the "affinity group" structure. Every occupier belongs to an affinity group of ten to fifteen people who train together. Each group has a medic, a media contact, two support people who stay off the site and make arrangements for food and communication, and a person who represents the group at decision-making meetings. For the June 24 occupation, Harvard students will be forming at least one affinity group...
...slipped away again, and Paul Berlin, left with his sense of obligation, climbs down from the observation tower to go back to the senseless war. Michael Herr relates in Dispatches the story of passing a blind man on a New York street with a friend who was a medic in Vietnam. Around the man's neck was a sign that read, "My Nights Are Darker Than Your Days." Herr and his friend looked at each other, almost guiltily; if you only knew, they thought. Going After Cacciato was six years in the writing; let us hope O'Brien writes again...
...contradictions between the way things are and the way they are supposed to be. As a student, he fought his asthma and walked the length of the South American continent, working for a time as a doctor in a Peruvian leper colony, and then as a sort of itinerant medic in the northern countries of the continent. What he saw made him angry, and soon he left for Guatemala, to join in the revolution there. It was soon put down by CIA-backed counter-revolutionaries, and Che would barely escape with his skin, to Mexico. His awareness now awakened...
...actions, even combined with the weather and the poverty and lack of sanitation that kill their children. Outsiders affect their lives too, now--Buc, the barber who joined the NLF when he learned that the Saigon government was encouraging men to grow their hair long; Sergeant Culpepper, the medic who solemnly affirms that American medicine is as good as scorpion urine; Colonel Quoc, ambitious and rising fast in the Saigon command but terrified of his astrology chart and unwilling to endanger his career by resisting an NLF attack. It becomes apparent, slowly (but quicker than it should, since Rubin...
...even had some among my patients," says Wood. But there are exceptions. Dr. Spoerry once had to leave a patient behind and take off in a hurry to avoid being speared to death by warriors urged on by an angry woman witch doctor, who saw the airborne medic as a competitor...