The First professional Doctorate in acupuncture. Oh boy!

Please, next time you're at the clinic, remember to read our petition against the proposed requirement of a Doctorate degree for acupuncture licensing. If you're interested in acupuncture being affordable to people with ordinary incomes, or in acupuncturists being able to make a living with their work without help from a trust fund, or in the profession not becoming even more white, then you you will find the proposal for the "First Professional Doctorate" quite ridiculous and unjust.

Here's a wonderful article by Lisa Rohleder which does a great job with humor describing the debate. This stuff really makes a difference to us, so it would make a difference to us if you read this and/or signed the petition. 

Thanks, Korben and Ellen and Rebecca.

The Case for Working with Our Hands

One reason we love our jobs is that we're lucky enough to work with our hands, and with other people, every day. Here's a great article about the "trades" and working with one's hands.
(Thank you once again to Nora from Detroit Community Acupuncture for this link.)

Local TV News Story on PCA

Philadelphia Community Acupuncture was featured on Fox News in Philly last night. Check out the clip here.

Acupuncture is Like Noodles. New Book on Community Acupuncture now at PCA

For 20 - 25 bucks, you can own the wonderful, radical, and important new book by the founder of the Community Acupuncture Network, while helping raise money for our clinic.

"Acupuncture is Like Noodles: the Little Red (cook) Book of Working Class Acupuncture", by Lisa Rohleder and the staff of Working Class Acupuncture in Portland, is meant to be read by patients and other non-acupuncturists interested in the community acupuncture model, and "the calmest revolution ever staged".

' Noodles' does a great job simply and clearly explaining what acupuncture is (and isn't), why thousands of people are getting treated every week at community acupuncture clinics around the country, and what this might mean for health care in general.

Rohleder and others, including us, founded and run The Community Acupuncture Network, or CAN. CAN's intention, and that of the book, is to expand the scope of interest and activism in all matters of affordable acupuncture to include all who have interest in the revolution - in order for current and additional clinics to develop and thrive.

We support the idea of multiple community acupuncture clinics in Philadelphia and in every city. We don't support acupuncturists or other health care providers using the buzz and language of community acupuncture to attract clients to their essentially boutique style clinics.

We invite you to pick up a copy of 'Noodles' at PCA', and join a powerful wave of everyday
people advocating for affordable acupuncture and keeping the revolution moving forward.


$1 from each sale of 'Noodles' will be donated to CAN - and used as part of upcoming
initiatives to help secure the growth of future budding community acupuncture clinics. And, about $10 goes straight to Philadelphia Community Acupuncture

If you'd like to see the book, you can look at this link, but be sure to buy one from us next time you come in for a treatment.
(http://www.workingclassacupuncture.org/node/17)

Acupuncture and pro football?

Thanks again to Nora, at Detroit Community Acupuncture, for the link.

Acupuncture for Prison Inmates in Baltimore

Here's the Philly Enquirer article.

Acupuncture Thoughts

Here's a wonderful blog piece by a patient talking about her community acupuncture experience.