Year One: A Few Highlights from the first year of POCA
Wow. Year One of POCA saw some major accomplishments.
Month: August 2012
More on Privilege:
A great (old, re-introduced) article by Rebecca Solnit is making the rounds of the interwebs lately. Nominally, it explains the phenomenon that has become known…
Science Explains Why POCA Patients Are So Nice and Why POCA Punks (mostly) Love Each Other
“While having money doesn’t necessarily make anybody anything,” Piff says, “the rich are way more likely to prioritize their own self-interest…
POCA Micro-Loans Are Here!
One of the many ways POCA volunteers are working to further POCA's goals!
Mods and Rockers
This is not a blog about factions of British youth fighting in the early 1960s, but instead a blog about using the POCA forum.
It’s All the Same
I've been working on materials for the Big Damn Clinic workshop and an analogy occurred to me: working in a CA clinic is a lot like being a patient in…
So You Want To Be Employed as a Punk?
If you think you’d like to work in an established community acupuncture clinic as an employee punk, here are some points to consider. Clinic owners…
What Makes For A Busy Clinic? Looking At The Annual CAN Clinic Survey
What can the CAN Survey tell us about successful clinics?
POCA’s Code of Ethics: It’ll Be Interesting
We need to put together an ethics statement for POCA. Cris put out a call for volunteers recently but I don’t think we’ve exactly been deluged wit…