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d3-iseefire · 5 years

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Gold to Airy Thinness Beat Chapter One

First chapter of my FemCaptainAmerica story (cause I love female main characters and I love Captain America so it’s two of my favorite things COMBINED. I also think it fits the story a lot better as I explain in a note on the first chapter but that’s just totally my opinion is all :D :D).

You can read the rest here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/7597150/chapters/17288674

"You were what?" Stephanie asked, unable to keep the shock from her voice.

Bucky grinned at her, the fake one he used when he was trying to convince everyone, including himself, that everything was fine when it was anything but.

"Drafted," the words were like a death knell, the light around them dimming at the sound. "I'm going to fight."

"No, Bucky," Stephanie blurted. Bucky. No one would call him that in the military, her mind informed her irrationally. No one would know him well enough, would understand the history, the character and the personality that created the man she knew as Bucky. In the military he'd simply be a name and a number. James Buchanan Barnes, a soldier, more fodder for a war that seemed destined to never end.

Her voice had been louder than she'd intended and several patrons in the small diner turned to look at her in disapproval. Stephanie ignored them. She wasn't in the mood to be a quiet, demure lady who sat and held her tongue while the only family, blood or otherwise, she had left told her about being drafted into a war that seemed to have a talent at taking living men from their homes and returning them in body bags.

His grin faltered and that did get her attention. She took a deep breath, trying to get herself under control. She doubted it would fool him any more than his attitude fooled her but they both played the game regardless. "Have you received your orders yet?" She managed to keep her voice steady with only the slightest hint of tension.

"No," he said, his eyes moving away from hers to some random point in the diner, "but it won't be long."

Stephanie felt sick. Bucky was exactly what they wanted in a soldier, fit, athletic and in amazing health. Not a single physical, or personality, defect to get rejected over. He was attractive too, the steady stream of girls constantly swarming him was testament to that. Even then Stephanie was aware of at least four in the diner who couldn't keep their eyes off him and two more who were trying to sneak glances when they thought their dates weren't looking. Bucky would be the one the cameras would gravitate to, the reels in the theaters using him to showcase the armed forces. It might work in his favor, might keep him safer as one of the faces of the armed forces...or it might not.

The two of them were as different as night and day. Even if her medical file didn't read like an Encyclopedia of Disease she was too small, too fragile and delicate and, most of all, too female. She'd never added her sex to her list of physical defects before but, right then, it seemed the most glaring one. From the beginning she'd been struck by the video reels in the theaters, images of the Nazis and terrified civilians, soldiers marching forward to meet evil. She'd thought then that, were she a man, she'd have signed up, volunteered to fight. As it was, the only options open to her were nursing which she wasn't trained for, or a secretary which simply wasn't what she wanted. Now, with the knowledge that Bucky would soon be sent off without her, a face suddenly given to the mass of faceless soldiers she watched in the theaters, the war suddenly far more personal than it'd ever been before, the unfairness of it all hit home even harder. Why should she have to stay behind when she wanted to go while he had to go when he wanted to stay?

She found her eyes on one of the girls openly staring at Bucky. She was pretty, all curves and hips, long legs turned to the side and crossed in the hopes of gaining Buck's attention. On any other given day, she'd probably already have it. Bucky was a serial dater. He'd had a lot of relationships but had yet to have one either of them would classify as serious.

Stephanie looked nothing at all like that girl, or any of the usual sorts of young women Bucky dated. She had zero curves. Her chest had taken a vacation during puberty, coming back only at the very end to present her with breasts so small she could barely justify the need, or expense, of a bra. If it weren't for her hair, currently in a thin braid down her back, most would probably mistake her for a... for a boy...

She sucked in a breath and felt adrenaline surge through her. Her eyes widened and she straightened in the chair. The idea was insane but also caused a bright swell of hope to spring up inside her.

"What?" Bucky asked, his voice flat. "What have you thought up now?"

She wasn't stupid enough to tell him. Instead she simply smiled brightly at him, a genuine one this time. "Nothing."

Bucky's eyes narrowed in suspicion but there was little he could do about it. He knew better than anyone how stubborn she was.

He scowled instead. "I don't know if I'm more worried about going over there or what's going to happen to you back here without me to pull you out of whatever you get yourself into."

Stephanie rolled her eyes. "I can take care of myself."

He gave her a look of disbelief and she knew he was thinking of the many, many, many times he'd had to save her from being harassed, or outright assaulted. She couldn't abide bullies and any time one reared their head she'd find herself going after them. The fact that many of these bullies were men, and most were significantly larger than her was what Bucky claimed kept him awake at night. She'd been pushed around more times than she could count, roughed up and even outright punched in the face a few times, usually by those who'd had more than a few beers first. It had led to Bucky developing a serious hero complex around her, as well as a deep seated paranoia about leaving her unsupervised. The longer he was gone, the more likely it seemed he'd come back to find her about to get her bell rung. His worry had gotten worse now that her parents were both gone and his had moved away. Stephanie wasn't exactly what one would call social, leading to Bucky being pretty much the only person she considered a friend, or family, in all of Brooklyn. "I'll be fine," she insisted again. He'd have enough to worry about over there without adding her to the mix.

He didn't look convinced. "Just promise me you won't do anything stupid while I'm gone, alright?"

She rolled her eyes. "Like I could. You'll be taking all the stupid with you."

"You're a punk," Bucky said without heat. He reached for his wallet and tossed some bills on the table, more than enough for her meal, his untouched milkshake and the tip.

"Jerk," Stephanie retorted with a slight smile. She started to argue she could pay for her own meal only to have him raise an eyebrow in a clear challenge, daring her to try it after he'd let her slide on not giving him the promise he'd asked for.

Stephanie scowled but didn't press the issue, instead simply giving him a look that was half glare and half concession. The grin of triumph he shot back had her narrowing her eyes and almost, almost reconsidering but, in the end, she let it go.

Bucky was better off than she was financially. His job at the warehouse paid quite well while she made far less as a secretary. He was always trying to pay for everything they did together, the theater, dinners and the like. If she refused he'd pull out a hurt look that made her feel eight kinds of guilty, even if she did know he was blatantly manipulating her. Bucky was not her personal bank and, in spite of the almost constant trouble she got herself in, she did not need him to take care of her. Usually.

They left a few minutes later, Stephanie absently wrapping both arms around Bucky's bicep as he walked her home, much to the annoyance of the girls in the diner who had set their caps toward him. Stephanie barely noticed, too deep in thought over her slowly growing plan. She did notice the tension in Bucky's arm. When she was deep in thought she tended to walk into, and off, things which meant any time she held Bucky's arm, to keep herself oriented, he automatically worried. She squeezed his arm in reassurance, hoping he'd think she was just worried over him being drafted.

What he didn't know wouldn't kill her.

***

She chose the name Steve Rogers for her enlistment form. It was close enough to her own that she felt she'd answer to it when called. The last thing she wanted to do was sit there like a dunce because she couldn't remember the fake name she'd put down.

She wrote it down five different times. Five different recruitment offices, five different enlistment forms, five different places of birth to keep them from putting together it was her over and over again.

She got in the door easily enough. She'd chopped her hair off the day after Bucky told her he'd been drafted, a fact which led to many disapproving looks from people on the street but it was worth it. Her job threatened to fire her for being unprofessional and looking like a hooligan, their words, but had calmed down when she'd claimed a jerk on the street had stuck gum in her hair and her only recourse had been to cut it. Bucky had been stunned when he saw it. She'd given him the same gum excuse she'd given her job. She was sure he saw right through it, particularly when she claimed she hadn't gone after the person responsible and couldn't give him a description so he could track the jerk down, but she was hopeful he wouldn't figure out what she was actually up too. It was pretty insane after all, even for her. Granted, if anyone could put it together, it'd be Bucky but she was banking on the fact he was too preoccupied with getting his affairs in order to put it together. It helped that she didn't see him as often. He spent all day working and the rest trying to get things in place so his life wouldn't fall apart while he was gone. It meant she didn't have to make repeated excuses to him about where she was and what she was doing. There was no possible way he wouldn't have picked up on something then.

Getting a pair of trousers and shirt was also easy. Bucky had given her a key to his apartment ages ago so she could go in and out as she wished. His place was closer to her job than her own and she would occasionally go over on her lunch break to relax when she got worn out. In return she'd prepare dinner for him and leave it in the icebox for when he got home. On one of her trips she scrounged around in the back of his closet and found an older shirt he'd planned to turn into a rag and a pair of trousers he rarely wore. He'd never miss them and she wouldn't feel as bad over having to alter them to fit.

After that it was just a matter of walking through the doors of the enlistment center. No one questioned her gender. Her age and physical ability, yes, given her size, but not her gender. The first time she tried it she was hopeful. Everything went so smoothly she was almost sure it was destiny guiding her way, right up until she was shown into a room full of shirtless men and ordered to disrobe so they could check her physical readiness.

She'd feigned sudden illness to get out of that one with her dignity, and modesty, intact. The next time she'd deliberately picked a center that had separate rooms and beds set up for medical checks. She'd hoped to beg her way in, tell the doctor her story and throw herself upon his compassion and mercy.

The doctor had, in fact, shown mercy, by not having her immediately arrested for falsifying her enlistment form. The third and fourth had not been as kind. The third had chased her out while the fourth had physically thrown her out. Admittedly she had offered him a bribe so it was understandable he'd taken offense. She really should have known better but had been at the point of desperation. The hard landing in the street caused cuts to her hands and knees from where she'd impacted the cobblestone. It had taken Bucky all of a half second to notice and she'd had to explain it away as tripping over her own feet, which had led to good natured teasing from him for days.

The fifth had been the worst experience, and the most demoralizing. The doctor had offered to help her, leading to a surge of hope only to dash it almost immediately by adding he expected a "favor" in return. The lewd way he'd looked at her had made the nature of the favor he wanted abundantly clear. She'd ended up kicking him in his knee, one of several moves Bucky had taught her, and stalked out with her head held high and her back straight.

It was only after she'd snuck into the dressing room of a nearby department store to change and begun walking home that her shoulders had started to droop and a deep sense of depression and resignation had settled over her.

By the time she reached the rickety stairs leading up to her small apartment her feet were dragging and her eyes were fixed on the ground.

She didn't notice Bucky in her kitchen until she'd nearly walked past him and he cleared his throat to get her attention.

She jumped a foot and whirled to see him sprawled out in a chair facing her, one arm resting on the table, the other on his leg. Stephanie opened her mouth to yell at him, only to snap it closed at the sight of the uniform he was wearing, the hat that completed it on the table near his hand.

"You got your orders," she said, her heart falling to her feet.

He held a slip of paper up between his thumb and forefinger. "Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes of the 107th at your service."

Part of her wanted to imagine it was someone else. That somewhere there existed a James Buchanan Barnes who would get up and go overseas while Bucky, her Bucky, would stay behind.

Dimly the rest of what he'd said registered. The 107th. The regiment her father had fought, and died, with.

It was not comforting.

"Where have you been?" Bucky continued and there was the slightest hint of an accusation in his voice that made Stephanie think perhaps he hadn't been as oblivious to her being up to something as she'd hoped.

"Nowhere," she responded shortly. She walked past him stiffly, heading toward the cupboard to make coffee. Well, an approximation of coffee. The real stuff was rationed, and expensive. "When do you leave?"

"Two days."

The mug she'd been in the process of pulling out slipped from her hand. It hit the edge of the counter, cracked and rolled off, shattering on the floor in a smattering of shards about her feet, the sound loud in the otherwise quiet apartment. Behind her she heard the sound of the chair scraping across the floor and then Bucky's boots on the wooden floorboards in the living room. He returned with the dustpan and small brush she kept in the hall closet. He dropped to one knee at her feet and swept the glass up, the shards rattling into the pan.

Stephanie tried to get ahold of herself and reached over him to get a new mug. As she did she was horrified to feel her eyes beginning to burn and mentally cursed. She angled her body away from Bucky and tried to not blink, looking up slightly as her vision blurred as if that would somehow keep the tears in check. She very rarely cried and didn't want Bucky's last memory of her before shipping out to be her blubbering like an idiot. After a moment the feeling faded and she surreptitiously reached up and wiped quickly at her face, trying to pass it off as if she was merely dealing with an itch.

Bucky dumped the shards in the trash and put the dustpan away. He dropped back into his chair and sat in silence, absently tapping the edge of his orders against the surface. He looked deep in thought over something, his eyes fixed on some spot in the far off distance. When he got like that he often forgot where he was, or that he was with anyone. Stephanie left him to it.

It was only when she set a steaming cup of not-quite-coffee in front of him, and sat down with her own, that his eyes returned from wherever he'd been and refocused on her.

"So, I've been thinking."

"That's a first," Stephanie cut in and he glared at her.

"Punk."

"Jerk," she shot back. She raised the mug to take a sip of the hot brew and did her best not to grimace. He caught it anyway and snorted before looking away with a frown.

"Ah, to hell with it," he muttered under his breath a few minutes later. He shifted in his chair, reaching into a back pocket and then tossed something at her. Stephanie caught it instinctively She felt cool metal in her hand and looked down to see a slender, delicate looking gold band lying on her palm, a diamond set into a gap at the top.

"What is this?" she asked blankly.

"Pretty sure it's called a ring," Bucky replied dryly.

Stephanie resisted the urge to throw something at him. "I know that, smartass. Why are you giving it to me?"

"Language," Bucky said absently, not meeting her eyes. "Why do you think? I'm leaving tomorrow. I want you to marry me before I go."

#Captain America #Steve Rogers #Bucky Barnes #Winter Soldier #Female Steve Rogers #Female Captain America #Marvel #romance #fantasy #fanfic #fanfiction #superhero

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salygainen · 5 years

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What to do EXACTLY to start UXing?

Hi to all,

as you know, I’m a cultural anthropologist. And I’m also a UX Researcher. How did it happen? Sadly, not a moonlight, not a cool auntie giving me job in her startup – just a lot of hard (at first: unpaid) work. Then, internship, then a proper job – continue reading and you shall get a handful of hints how to proceed with your occupation transformation *drums*.

Some introductory babbling

Ok, so here’s my first insight and first advice to all of you, young social scientists, trying your best to become a UX warrior: be prepared to do a shitload of money-free effort, so you NEED to have either way some external support (I lived with my parents), some serious savings or somehow divide your time between learning and your day-job. It's how our life is, but it’s not ok. It’s not right, when guys from poor environments can excel their talents and polish their skills, cause they can’t afford unpaid internship, not to mention private UX schools. I was lucky, in my generation it’s still not obligatory to have such certificate, but it opens a lot of doors. I’m double lucky, cause finally anthropology/ ethnography became recognized as a valid and valuable vocational training. Many of UX specialists come from business-oriented backgrounds: they just “re-oriented” in their previous jobs. We need folks with consulting or graphics roots, but the second they become overrepresented, the industry looses broader perspective: we all put different flavors on a plate. Psychologists, frontend devs, linguists and social scientists, we are all needed. UX Research differs from Marketing Research simply by its orientation: we want to investigate the real human person within our product/service, not the product within the market. I know that CX (Customer Experience) is for some a new brand term for UX. It’s true, BUT only in some specific contexts. And every time we replace user/person/human with “client”, we use free market narrative and see the design process through the narrow, capitalistic logic. But that’s a different story.

So, what to do to transform into UX someone? Oh sister.

1. Easy stuff.

Join all the UX-related groups and pages on Facebook, subscribe to newsletters, visit all the meetups and free/low cost workshops, follow Them Famous UX Gods on Twitter – not gonna prepare a list now, go Google yourself.

Oh, and if you’re still a student: check if any faculty at your uni has any technology/design related courses or even associations. You don’t have to sign in, just go there and listen. It’s the very last moment in your life, when you get formal knowledge for free. That’s what I did during my Erasmus scholarship – I took my sneaky butt to IT students-oriented lectures. I’m pretty sure that host Erasmus supervisor still hates me, she kicked me out from almost all of the courses (“you’re from anthropology, you can’t sit with us”). Official way doesn’t always work. World might not be ready for you. Be ready to bite back.

2. Tough stuff (aka everything else).

Think. Think who you are: what are your skills? What are their names in UX/commercial research lingo? What do you mean they’re not the same? Wait, so in-depth ethnographic interview is not correct? HOW COME.

Yep, my young padawan. We all spend hours reading Clifford, Hastrup and Geartz, and yet it taught us nothing about communicating non-etno-peeps what kind of tools are we using. Yes, they are tools, not sacred means of humanitarian contact. Get over it.

Start with reading blogs (e.g. Medium offers a tone of cool short articles) to update your vocabulary. Then read books: “UX Research” by Brad Nunnally and David Farkas, or if you know Polish: “Badanie jako podstawa projektowania UX” by Iga Mościchowska and Barbara Rogoś-Turek. Desk research, IDI, observation… yep, continue. I’ll get some coffee.

You know your skills (more or less)? Cool, now think again: what do you want to do within design process? For social scientists (anthropologists, sociologists…) it’s natural to aim into UX Research specialization. There are others, the names and scope of competences can vary a lot in every company. In general, you have UX designer or product designer, a person who’s responsible for flow, interaction, logic and basic interface structure. In package come also UI designer, who will make the prototype beautiful, usable and real-life-looking, so developers can start production. There are unicorns, that just do everything. You can think about it later.

Once you know what you want to do, I recommend learning more about general usability and design process. You will need this knowledge no matter which specialization you want to pursue. And, darling, you need to have be able to back up your future design decisions – people will challenge them. They’ll challenge them so hard. Pages like Coursera or Udemy can help you – you just need a lot of motivation to finish the courses. You register (and pay) to get access to recorded video lectures, sometimes there are readings. If you pay for a course on Coursera, then you’re able to participate in a class project and get feedback on your work, afterwards you get a certificate. Cool beans, I did the free version, cause I was poor. I found myself some offline occasions to practice.

Other options are (mentioned above) local meetups: find a UX community in your area and check if they’re organizing anything. Even better, ask if they need volunteers: you’ll help, you’ll meet interesting people and you’ll get the free pass for all the events. Same goes for conferences: email them and ask if they need volunteers. Some NGOs run continuous projects (does TechSoup ring a bell?) and they always welcome new people. Don’t be shy, all the programmers build their portfolio that way, you can do it too. Learn and help the world, even if it’s just for a few months. Same organizations conduct mentoring programs – I took part in TechLeaders by Women in Technology: totally recommended! You do your own project and have a personal couch to give you feedback, inspire and most of all, guide through the process. Go for it, mate.

If you’re a student, join or start an association. It’s easy, it’s free, you can play your “I’m an university student doing great scholar things” card, while dealing with institutions. Find people like you, creative, eager to learn and responsible (I’ll write a post on that one day). Think about a small project you can do together: new website for your institute, new service for foreign students, series of meetings with interesting specialists. The latter can become mentors/patrons for any design project you want to run – these people are busy, but also very friendly and enjoy sharing their UX wisdom.

Alright, how about internships? Well, they’re the hardest to get. The more known the company is, the more advanced recruitment process becomes. They might ask you for your portfolio, for sure they’ll ask you for a CV. Luckily, in IT it’s more common to pay interns (everywhere else – not so much). My internship turned into a fixed contract, so hooray for me. But even if you don’t get hired, internships are crucial. Worst case scenario: you just brew coffee and get a happy stamp on your Linkedin profile. Better case scenario, you learn things, you network and leave the place way smarter.

Last but not least: UX schools and long-term paid courses. Oh my. I’d love to enroll. I’d love to have people watching out for my education. But, as all the good things in life, it’s expensive and it’s requires free weekends (your lifestyle has to be regular enough to not skip classes every week). Plus, if you’re not from a big city, they usually it’s just not happening in your area. I got my skills anyway, but I can’t show THE paper. Still, I can show my two diplomas from the best uni in my country, so I think I’m covered 😉

Another thing is: UX is quite a young discipline, at least in terms of vocational training. There are very few places offering legitimate knowledge. Still, UX is hot, is trendy and it opens our pockets, so there are also “schools” offering courses with “experts” with two years of experience. Just don’t fall for that.

Bye, bye

Did you manage to read all of that? Neat, mate. Now go and learn some Axure 😊

… or let me know YOUR STORY.

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berkeleyfreeclinicthesis-blog · 8 years

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02.02.2017 - Highlights from the Inner Leaf 1975-1978: BFC as a radical “street-type” clinic.

all of the Berkeley Inner Leaf’s from 1975-1984 have been digitized. You can access the archived as PDF’s by clicking here.

Using the Inner Leaf’s own words: Page 6 of first issue: “What is the inner leaf – “statements which are not official Clinic policy and cannot be released to the community at large. We can use it to discuss the clinic’s vulnerabilities, short-comings and internal problems”

Please let me know if you would like help getting access to these resources.

o 07.02.1975 – first edition of the inner leaf

§ Rap center principles of unity: (1) we believe that a collective, non-competitive community encourages mental health (2) we encourage our clients to gain a sense of the importance of community in their struggle (3) demystify (4) we oppose the capitalistic system of our socity because it exploits peoples’ abilities rather than encouraging their growth.

§ Poem page three by Michael S. – “thousands of latin American have drowned in my cup of imperial coffee.”

§ Page 4 – “I enjoy working in an institution which allows the merging of technical/political/economic side of life with the personal/emotional sides – at least our rhetoric implies this merger.”

§ Page 4 – poem – A Maoist Lovesong by Jude – red book, wrought silver rings in hand we teethe on contradictions toss our hopes aside and live the cray dream our red sun rising in the west

§ Page 5 – poem – electro shock demonstrations – “and this shock. They call it a therapy!”

§ Page 5 – 24 hour switchboard service – paid $1/hour

§ Page 6 – poem – War comes home – Howie – The war comes home, the consciousness is different, It penetrates like lead in the bones, tomorrow there will be fire.”

§ Page 6 – What is the inner leaf – “statements which are not official Clinic policy and cannot be released to the community at large. We can use it to discuss the clinic’s vulnerabilities, short-comings and internal problems”

§ Page 7 and 8 – Weather Underground article – “imperialism cannot meet the needs of the US people. Revolution is the only path of liberation for oppressed and exploited people.” “White organizers have a tremendous amount to learn. First we must struggle to build principled working relationships with Black and Third World People.” “Overcoming racism means dealing with Third world people with absolute equality and respect.”

o 09.24.1975

§ Page 1 – All Clinic Advisory Counsel (AC) “functioning as the clinic board of directors as mandated by the clinic community has been operating with primary decision-making responsibility for some time.”

§ Page 2 – editorials on the AC – “The AC was given some power – since then they have gone mad—they do what they want throwing co-operation and collectivity out of the window.”

§ Page 3 – editorials on the AC – I consider myself a hard ass liberal and I object to the wishy washy central party communist tactics of the AC. Unfortunately, I think some of the AC members are ripping off clinic money.

§ Page 3 – poem – Surgery – “comrade- motherfucker,” “comrade-lover-friend,” “red blood kin.” – Jude

§ Page 8 – we need to “reduce the atmosphere of mystification, isolation and mistrust that had formed over the last several months.”

§ Page 9 - “ the factionalism and antagonism; these things are sapping the vitality of the clinic to the point where I fear that we will be spending all our energy on our internal problems.

§ Page 10 – AC discussion of revenue sharing –

· Advantages – draws community groups together around issues, third world contacts, breaks down isolation

· Disadvantages – giving into country demands, giving info that we don’t want to give, changes in our language and changes in our concepts – COMPROMISE, contracts locks us in, prevents flexibility of direction, forces lying

o 03.11.1977 –

§ Page 2 – switchboard section went on retreat to Tahoe – “why are we an almost lily white clinic? A tentative correlation can be made between the amount of structure and organization that the clinic has adopted and the racial homogeneity of its workers over the same period.” “Many people in the workshop felt strongly that 3W (third world) hiring a token effort to increase 3W participation in the clinic, and hat without concurrent efforts being made to recruit 3W volunteers we will not achieve an integrated staff at the clinic.”

§ Page 3 – a third issue was raised – “volunteerism is racist and classist, that not paying people for work excluded a segment of the population that could not afford it.” Ideas for encouraging minority participation: work/study opportunity, CETA hiring, 3W outreach, 3W agencies –

§ Page 4 – poem by Judy – “two comrades”

§ Page 5 – “The AC has had to take on more and more power within the Clinic in order for the organization just to get by day by day – I feel that the AC has taken too much power and responsibilities upon itself. The larger the group the harder it is to come to any kind of collective decision due to the wide variety of perspectives.”

§ Page 9 – “workshops in may 1975 delegated some of the powers of the board to the AC in brief because the board did not have consistent enough membership to make informed decisions.”

§ Page 10 – pros of accepting CETA funds – “more third world participation.”

§ AC-Medical Section meeting Feb 27, 1977- July 1975 salaries were raised to $400/month with extra money if you had a dependent. In July 1976 they raised to wages to $500/month one of the reasons for this was , “to provide the possibility that other than white middle-class drop-outs might want to work here.”

o 03.28.1977

§ Page 3 and 4 – an early clinic history – “I have a personal interest in the clinic’s history, and have been spending some time with other workers trying to compile a history of the development of our structure, policies, funding and orientation. I will start by focusing on the history of salaries in the clinic – Harold In 1971, the medical director ($400) and the clinic administrator ($200) were essentially the only salaried positions. The clinic appointed two full-time co-administrators at $300 a month each to take over their tasks, this was the summer of ’71. By 72 section coordinators received $100/mo. (I believe there were four sections at this time: medical, dental, switchboard and rap.) and an extra $25 for taking on administrative tasks and responsibilities. This was eventually increased in 73 to $200/mo for coordinators and $300/mo for administration. In oct 74, the salaries of all paid workers were equalized to $275/month. After the workshops, the AC was delegated board powers (05.18.1975) with a re-evaluation scheduled for three months. In july 75, the AC voted to raise salaries to $400/month and the rest is as reported in the last issue.”

o 04.01.1977

§ Page 2 – city elections - :rent control initiative, the Tenant Union-Landlord Relations Ordinance, Berkeley City Council election and the Berkeley school board are important “the 9-person city council, dominated by a conservative majority, has continually held community services to be a low priority for they city, has funded the Free Clinic and other agencies at a minimal level and has generally been unresponsive to the agencies needs.

§ Page 2 – the international hotel—medics from the BFC offered medical services to the filipino tenants of the International Hotel when they refused to be evicted

§ Page 3 – Letter from Angola – physician from angola, working with the soviet-backed MPLA, maintains communications with the BFC – highly political – FOR SOME CONTEXT: Rothschild, Donald (1997). Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Pressures and Incentives for Cooperation. Washington: The Brookings Institution. pp. 115–120. “The Soviet Union and Cuba became especially sympathetic towards the MPLA and supplied that party with arms, ammunition, funding, and training.” The Angolan doctor writes, “based on a unique spirit of Internationalism mainly Cuban doctors but also medica from other (socialist) countries were asked to fill- temporarily- the most urgent gaps in some of the main hospitals of the country.

§ Page 4: Revenue Sharing CETA – didn’t accept county money because it did not want to have to hand over patient information during the audits—patients would be afraid that they might be leagally punished for using drugs

§ Page 5 – financial statement

§ Page 6 – a graphic that illustrates the values of the bfc succinctly

· It lists the aims of the BFC – the Berkeley community health project is working to give people back control over their own bodies

o By demystifying medical care with full explanations to our patients

o By promoting open, whole-person relationships between patient and health worker

o By making patients away of their legal rights

o By studying and sharing information about the US medical system and how it can be changed to meet the peoples needs

o By teamwork between doctors and community paraprofessionals

§ Page 7 – gives an indepth look at fundraising methods

· Raffle – “over 100 berkeley merchants donated prizes to our drawing.”

· Direct mailing – 2,000 letters sent

· Panhandling “panhandling was once again the major source of community contributions. The clinic made about $5,000 through the panhandling operation during December and January combined.

§ Page 10 – basic description of service: There were four sections: medical, dental, RAP and Switchboard

§ Page 15 – musings – “do we have a common political philosophy that can be consistently reflected in the way we deliver our service?” “Can we join forces to work toward our goal of increasing third world participation in the clinic?”

o 05.02.1977

§ Page 5 – Notes on a lecture by Vicente Navaro on the social determinants of health and the structure of corporate medicine in the US

§ Page 6 and 7 MORE PANHANDLING – some guy tried to steal the panhandling boxes

o 07.13.1977

§ Page 3 – announcement for the formation of the GMHC – gay men’s health collective “we are a collective of gay men who see that gay health needs are not being met by established medical institutions.”

§ Page 7 – the clinic is not offering free childcare for clients and staff

§ Page 8: CLIENT SURVEY RESULTS

· INCOME;

o 18% had no income

o 12% earned 100/mo

o 15% 100-200/mo

o 20% 200-300/mo

o 10% 300-400/mo

o 5% 500-600/mo

o 20% above 600/mo

o “the board of supervisors comment when tabling the health-funding request was that the BFC was not seeing enough poor people.”

· BENEFITS: 60% received no welfare benefits, 6% got unemployment, 15% had medi-cal, 7% SSI, 6% had aid to families with dependent children, 6% had food stamps

· GENDER : “half of the people we see are females.”

· RACE: 85% white. 15% ethnic minorities

· SEXUAL PREFERENCE: 10% gay. 90% hetero

· RESIDENCE:

o 36% lived in bay for more than 5 years

o 30% between 1 and 4 years

o 30% less than one year

o 60% were Berkeley residents

o 30% were Oakland residents

o 01.01.1978

§ Page 2- David Werner- author of the Donde No Hay doctor manual is speaking at a picnic

§ Page Three – denouncing the AC

· “we are all experiencing discomfort with the AC process. A double standard exists for workers of the Administrative collective. Some workers are consistently more than 30 minites late at AC meetings and they are not asked why or encouraged to be prompt. Others are criticized.”

· “members are often interrupted when they speak. It is not uncommon for speakers to be laughed at or to have faces made by those who disagree with them.

· Organizing and political study are highly valued in the AC. Direct services are floundering. It seems that the AC priority is on administrative and management to the detriment of our function as a community health care facility.”

· We suggest that the current administrative collective be dissolved and that the clinic reinstate a Board of Directors according to out by-laws.”

§ Page 4 – announcement of revenue sharing contract – “we used revenue sharing only for indirect services—trainings, orientations and outreach also SWB, because of requirments for access to client records (breach of confidentiality) for those seen for direct services”

§ Page 5 – A community meeting on moving – DAVE: opposed to meeting, likes being in between Shattuck and Telegraph—what would the street people do in our absence. MARTY – decision to move came from a Racism Workshop – the BFC is located in a white, student part of town. ANGELA – changing the healthcare system involves working with various community groups, especially Third World groups who have interest in changing the health care system PAUL- we should distinguish between moving from this building and changing who we serve. Motion by Paul: that we reaffirm the clinic’s commitment to moving to a more humane and healthier environment and reaffirm the clinic’s intent to serve five underserved groups: women, gay people, third world people, drug abusers and street people.

§ Page 6 – Angela makes a motion: to establish a new section call the Health Action Section – coordinate political trainin; work changing the health care system – advocacy, organizing, political information, corporate medicine lobbying, legislation,

o 04.03.1978

§ Page 2 – Upcoming workshops – racism: possible sub-topics are “in our services”, internal, evaluation of ommunity hiring, encouraging 3rd world participation – april 11

§ Page 5 – distressingly small amount of time spent in direct services, outreach education and self-education vs. the enormous time in meetins

§ Page 6 – how do we expect the clinic to go in a more political direction n o matter how you define that if our full-time workers cannot even study the healthcare system—our country and basic socialist ideas. POLITICAL ADVOCACY – city and county meetings

§ Page 7 – in all categories of the tally sheet that could be related to more direct political activity than direct services, we were putting in almost no time. This was a shocker to me since we have very political tatements in our principles of unity and our goals as a clinic. – these figures indicate that we should either change some of our public statements and the way we see ourselves to fit the reality of our work or do some radical relooking at the question of political work at the clinic.

§ Page 11- Berkeley Community Health Project, Inc – Principle Office, Corporate Seal, membership and voting, board of trustees – all BCHP members – all corporate powers shall be exercised by and under the authority of the board of trustess – all memebers of the BCHP

§ Page 15 – goals for internal restructuring – stipending all workers – actualize political study – training for and definition of community—politicizing, organizing, skills, --

§ Page 17 – outside of the building – clinic politics – talk of potentially having a political section at the clinic - eight categories of things that I regard the clinic as having been politically oriented to some degree

· Joanne little defense funds an African-American woman whose trial for the 1974 murder of a white prison guard at Beaufort County Jail in Washington, North Carolina, became a cause célèbre of the civil rights, feminist, and anti-death penalty movements. Little was the first woman in United States history to be acquitted using the defense that she used deadly force to resist sexual assault.[1] Her case also has become classic in legal circles as a pioneering instance of the application of scientific jury selection.[2] Pickard et al., 2002:885 – Wikipedia

· Black repotory theater

· Free gary tyler committee

· Bakke march

· Electro shock demonstration

· Attend NAPA sit-in in sacramento

· Psychosurgery demo

· Coalition against forced treatment

· Conservatorship hearing

· Support for Cambodia and Vietnam

· Protest treatment of prisoners in Chile

· Money for a tour of red china

· Penicillin for vietname

· Zimbabwe medical drive

· International hotel

· West Berkeley crisis center

· Woman’s day coalition

· Gov. brown position pro abortion

· Women’s rights rally

· Hyde amendment – abortion

· Court accepts paraprofessional as drug consultation

· Longest march – for native americans

· Gay Men’s Rally –

o 04.05.1978

§ Page 4 – demographics of our community

· 18-29 is 60% of clients, 30-39 is 31%

· 52% female, 48% male

· 4% gay, 13% bisexual, 83% hetero

· 5% Asian, 11% black, 9% latino, 2% native American, 73% white

· 10% nonresident, 21% east bay for less than 1 yr, 31% 1-4 yrs, 25% 5-10 yrs, 13% 11+ years.

· Average monthly donation: $0-1 65%, $1-5 25%, $5+ 3%.

· Way person was received: 80% warm and friendly, 0% cool and distant, 20% hurried

o 04.10.1978

§ Page 6 – racism workshop –

§ Page 8 – General History Summary by scottosaurus

· People’s park uprisings the medics squad sprung into visibility

· They allied with the Radical Psychiatry group under the umbrella of the BCHP which had been worked out by some community activits who felt that something more ws needed than the street health information office which the city had sponsored on Telegraph previously

· Radical Psychiatry Group became RAP center

· Got together with the woman’s health collective

· 314-D drug contract

· Prohibit general crashing in the clinic

· Director was paid $750/mo – was the only formally paid worker

· RAP center was staffed 24/7

· Medical section 24/7

· 1970- located at Haste and Dana at the old McKinley School- this was the building that the police came into during a riot an threw the x-ray machine down the stairs along with a couple of medics

· Then moved to the Bancroft and dana –

· Moved to current location, dana and Durant in December 1970

· Dec 1970 the free church closed its switchboard and incorporated it into the Berkeley free clinic swb section

· three sections, medical, RAP and swb each coordinator getting paid $250/mo

· the development of the AC is a major part of early clinic history – how did so much authority get invested into it

· made a rule where there needed to be two people from each section in a board meeting for something to be passed- and there was one short from dental – so people wanted a different system .

o 04.17.1978

§ Page one – vicente Navarro – medical advisor to the late president salvadore Allende of chile and author of medicine under capitalism—will be here to give a talk on 4.20.1978

§ Page 3 and 4 – racism workshop report –

§ Page 5 – on april 10 – 14 1978 the clinic suspended normal services to hold a week of evening workshops

· Monday – the budget

· Tuesday was racism

· Wed was directions and service: funds should go for improvements—because they don’t know how long it will take to move it is better to expand and improve services where they are – want to establish a political outreach committee

· Thursday was internal structure

· Friday is the synthesis of the rest of the week

§ Page 6 – “our location is not central to the “Berkeley community.” We should be more involved with the third world community, as well as the telegraph-campus community

§ Page 8 – in depth discussion of the potential political action committee

§ Page 9 – start considering income sources no vulnerable if the JARVIS-Gaines intiative should pass – fee for service, voluntary sliding scale fee system – FIRST MENTION OF PROP 13

§ Page 11 and 12 – notes from the racism workshop- SUPER IMPORTANT-

· RACISM IN OUR POLICIES (1) process and standards for applying for jobs within the clinic—volunteers (2) the way we deliver our services—the policy choices which we make about our style of delivery (ie our tyle of dress, our concern or non-concern with cleanliness. We need to understand the cultural aspects of healthcare deliver—the irony of this is that often our current style was deliberately chosen to attract people who otherwise might on have come what is the middle ground? (3) location both physical location and atmosphere or image

o 05.01.1978

§ Page 11 – ideas about the health action section – aka the political action section – “I see the clinic approaching its work from two directions- through direct service and through political activity—“on one hand it is necessary to develop alternative institutions. These alternative institutions provide a means of exploring ways to work out the existing contradictions in the health care system… the alternative institutions will provide the seeds from which to create new systems once the Revolution occurs – on the other hand however is the need for political action.

o 05.29.1978

§ Page 2- remember to vote on june 6, 1978 – prop 13—yikes ALSO – highland hearing “last ditch effort to keep highland under ommunity rather than private corporate control

§ Page 5 – description of christiana in Copenhagen Denmark – its like a big coop or something

§ Page 17 – have put in an increase in city General fund to about 36000 from 28000 there will be a public hearing on 06.08.1978. 714d (drug) contract expires 06.30.1979—city is waiting for the results of Jarvis-Gann (Prop 13) before requesting proposals

§ Page 18 – revenue sharing proposal being submitted is the same as last years contract 0 with a cost of living adjustment –

§ Page 24 – ask for CETA funds - highland hospital hearing

o 06.13.1978

§ Page 2 - Visualizations and Aura reading in counselling- basically a bunch of new age crap

§ Page 6 – open letter calling for the layoff of all paid workers (the AC) in response to the passage of Prop 13 “I feel strongly that if layoffs of paid workers are to occur, they must be totally across the board. There are two basic reasons for this 1) it will prevent the incredible political storm sure to occur if selective layoffs are attempted 2) it is equally unfair to everyone..”open board system be re-established—whether or not the clinic continues to have paid workers—it is obvious that they will not be in a position to be responsible for the major decision making –

§ Page 7 – Jarvis-gann passed last Tuesday—initial estimates were that it probably would kill virtually all of out contract funding, kiocking the annual income down from about $190,000 to the approximately $40,000 we get from various donations – MAJOR NOTE: All-Clinic Community Meeting – 6/20/1978 – to discuss what to do about paid staff due to the Jarvis gann “only a dummy would miss this one

§ Page 8 – The Hiring committee in the Dental Section had narrowed their choices to two people, a black woman and a black man – it was decided to have outside hiring

§ Page 12 – Jarvis-gann bulletin

§ Page 14—Jarvis gann casualty list

· Mental health advocates- down to one

· Pro Per collective – emergency reorganizing meeting

· Tenants union – rumor from ed stress that its floundering

· Berkeley city v.d. clinic – termination notices have been sent out to employees

· Over 60’s clinic – their staff is being cut back dramatically they are referring people here

· I’ve heard that the county of alameda has issued notices of termination to something like half of its employees

o 09.03.1978 – missed some of the immediate responses to Prop 13—were those inner leaves every produced ?

§ Page 4 – report on state-wide network of all California clinics – last month in sf 40 people attended the first meeting to establish a statewide network of all california free clinics – it was apparent that alameda county has suffered the most cutbacks in health workers due to prop 13

§ Page 5 – explanation of what occurred over the summer – “july 14 were the first lay offs – august 30 was the final A.C. board meeting

§ Page 6 – summary of summer community meetings—this is the general overview of the dissolution of the all-clinic council –

· June 1: failed to meet due to quorum

· June 20 – freezes the savings at 25,000

· July 6 – discussion – no motions presented

· July 10 – Redelegation of the board pwers – looked at some alternatives to the AC—board structure—no motions passed

· July 13 –“all salaried clinic positions be terminated Aug 31.” That motion was the subject of considerable discussion- and the meeting kept extending later and later – finally it passed 17 to 11.

· July 20 – salaried clinic positions ended by the july 13 motion did not terminate the CETA positions, 2 stipended childcare workers, YEP and YES workers, graveyards, panhandlers, and medical section stipended I and R workers

· July 26 – racism in the clinic – especially whether to fire faith or Andrew – CANCELLED

· July 28 – meeting minutes are no longer around – the only motion passed on this day was to rescind the july 13 termination of all paid employees

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