Showing posts with label sickness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sickness. Show all posts

2.09.2007

How To Not Break Certain Bodily Stuff


What with the recent and not-so-recent (and highly admirable) work that friends of mine have been doing in New Orleans, I figured it would be fitting to spread this zine across the internet. It is An Activist's Guide to Health and Safety in New Orleans, and can be found on the website of STORM-NYC, an activist medical health collective.

Hopefully this can be useful to any other readers of How To Break Stuff who plan to go to NOLA again, or who know people planning to go to NOLA again. Knowledge is power, safety is strength, and bodies are tools to keep in good working order.

1.28.2007

How to break your health

Hey all. Apologies for the dry spell... Got very sick after my last trip to New Orleans. It's a motto of ours here at HtBS
that one can only abuse a machine as much as one takes care of it, and
apparently that's true of the human body as well. So, as always, equal
parts safety with your stupidity.

The trip was good, I learned a lot that will make its way here, from a quick-and-dirty set of methods for checking a building's structural integrity (definitely not comprehensive or foolproof) to inventive ways to repair engines with epoxy--all stuff that I can't wait to share. But bare with me as I recuperate.
Keep your tools and wits sharp, and I assure you, in due time, more stuff will be broken.