User:Gobblehook

Gobblehook is the family name of the Displaced Persons, as mispronounced by Mrs. Shortley in Flannery O'Connor's short story "The Displaced Person." In the story, the "good country people/negro/trash" order of things on a World War II -era Georgia plantation is stirred up then apocalyptically destroyed with the introduction of the Guizacs (or Gobblehooks). The Guizac family was violently displaced from Poland, losing neices and cousins to the Nazis as they fled. According to Mrs. McIntyre, the owner of the plantation, now she has some that has to work.

But "...Mrs. Shortley had the sudden intrusion that the Gobblehooks, like rats with typhoid fleas, could have carried all those murderous ways over the water with them directly to this place. If they had come from where that kind of thing was done to them, who was to say that they were not the kind that would also do it to others?"

I have been displaced a few times in my life. I come from where that kind of thing was done to me.

Ms. Gobblehook's biography
I am a health worker and  adult educator from New Orleans.

I have taught community-based health work classes to student, neighborhood, church, and issues-based groups; and have spoken on power disparities and health outcomes at the 24th and 25th annual reproductive rights conferences hosted by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program at Hampshire College.

I am the co-founder (with South African freedom fighter  Mongezi Sefika wa Nkomo) of an organization through which I consult with health and community-based groups to promote approaches to health work that strengthen the fabric of the community.

As a StreetMedic, I have provided first aid support at fourteen political actions, including the 2004 March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C. and the 2006 Great Flood Commemoration March in New Orleans.

I ran an underground free health post in my inner-city neighborhood from 2003-2004, and currently assist in the development of Common Ground Health Clinic, a post- Katrina free integrative family medicine center I helped to found in September 2005.

I am a pre-nursing student at Delgado Community College. My home congregation is St. Matthew Central United Church of Christ.

My heritage: I am the Pennsylvania German /  Appalachian granddaughter, grandniece, and great-grandniece of  coal miners from Schuylkill county.

I am working on

 * The whole Medic mini wiki

I have contributed to

 * Barefoot doctors
 * Deacons for Defense and Justice
 * German American
 * Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Native speaker
eu:Txantiloi:·Hizkuntza (ru)

To do

 * Heat illness
 * Taser information
 * Eyeflush
 * High-voltage electric fence
 * Gunshot wound
 * Protester health and safety (long march)
 * Chemical weapons aftercare
 * Documenting police brutality
 * Initial assessment
 * Action reports: Anti-globilization
 * Action reports: anti-war / anti-recruitment
 * Action reports: eco-defense
 * Action reports: anarchist
 * Action reports: anti-fascist
 * Action reports: anti-poverty
 * Action reports: self-determination