POCA’s 2022 Annual Report & Other Ramblings From The President’s Desk
It goes without saying (but I’m going to say it anyway): lots of things (everything?) had to change and adapt starting in early 2020. Whether…
Tag: social justice
Join Us to Celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Dear fellow POCA people,
It seems like every day there is a new brutal blow to our collective humanity. Like many of you, we are feeling so much rag…
What Tools Do Our Clinics Have? Fundraising for the Florence Project
In July, 2018, in response to the news of children being separated from their families at the border, 8 POCA clinics successfully raised over $5,000 f…
Don’t Stop Believing: Why CAP Supports POCA’s Membership Drive
At the Community Acupuncture Project in West Seattle, we can’t, don’t and won’t stop believing in POCA! Since our inception in 2009, we’ve been a…
The Acupuncture Profession has 99 problems, but NADA ain’t one of them.
One year after New Hampshire makes changes to it’s acupuncture law.
Videos from Liberation Acupuncture in Portland, OR 2018
At the Liberation Acupuncture workshop in June 2018, POCA’s Movement Building Circle (MBC) led an afternoon of inquiries into movement building in t…
Incarceration & Access to Care: One Clinic’s Story
There are many ways our clinics work to ally ourselves with local community organizations, campaigns and efforts. Fortifying local movements through offering organizers and directly…
Time to Make Friends!
(outside of the acupuncture profession) That’s the theme of our upcoming June 1-2 workshop in PDX. It’s all about relationship-building, reaching out, and cultivating partnerships…
Support Puerto Rico!
Health and Acupuncture for the People
Can you give to support grassroots hurricane relief in Puerto Rico?
Help POCA raise $1500 for volunteer run acup…
How Do We Get Where We Need To Go: Movement Building’s First Webinar + Clinic Assessments
There are currently more black men in prison in the United States than were enslaved in 1850. One in nine people currently incarcerated are serving…