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Our Mission | Liberation Acupuncture, Collective Healing & Social Justice

Liberation Acupuncture & Our Mission: Health Is Not Just Individual; It’s Collective

Liberation Acupuncture is rooted in the belief that personal health and community health are linked.

As a Liberation Acupuncture Clinic, our mission is to be an oasis for accessible mental and physical healthcare and to be a part of creating a healthy, inclusive and just community. 

Our patients’ symptoms don’t exist in a vacuum.

The healing sparked by community acupuncture treatment ripples out into families, workplaces & community.

Equally, stressors and injustices in community show up as health consequences in our clinic.

As we bring the relief our tiny needles and shared healing space can so powerfully bring, we recognize the link between personal wellness and community health/ structural justice. 

Solidarity and Statement of Inclusion

Open Space Acupuncture stands in solidarity with the liberation movement of the Palestinian people.

We recognize that individual health is inseparable from collective justice. The ongoing occupation, displacement, and violence against Palestinians devastate physical and mental health -both in Palestine and in diaspora communities, including here in Somerville. As a community acupuncture clinic rooted in accessibility and mutual care, we affirm that healing work must stand against oppression.

At Open Space we recognize the equal dignity of every human being, and support efforts to uphold this truth. We recognize that anti-racism, collective liberation, bodily autonomy & opposition to oppression are all essential to the health of a community. We denounce all forms of systemic oppression, including racism, queermisia, transmisia, xenomisia, sexism, ableism, anti-fat bias, Islamomisia, and antisemitism. We recognize that settler-colonialism, arbitrary detention, racial profiling, separation of families and all other forms of racism and oppression both devastate immediately impacted communities and also have downstream effects on all of humanity.
 
Injury to any is injury to all.
 
We stand in solidarity with anti-oppression and community building efforts. We affirm our commitment to promoting physical and mental health as part of the broader struggle for justice and liberation.
Muslims, Jews, people of all faiths and no faith are welcome here as are all sexual orientations, ethnicities & immigrant statuses.

Find a rotating list of fundraisers for Gazans here.
 

“Without Healing there is No Justice; and Justice Work Itself Must Be Healing.”
–Justice Teams Network

Joy, rest, pleasure, cultural/spiritual practice and healing are necessary for sustained justice movements. Community acupuncture is a natural tool to help folks get re-resourced, address trauma & physical and mental health in a peaceful space alongside neighbors.

We are available to provide healing services at any upcoming protests or actions.

If you are part of a community impacted by systemic harm, or work in solidarity/justice and want to:

  • Bring free or discounted acupuncture to your community
  • Collaborate on a fundraising event
  • Use our space for a meeting or gathering
  • Have us help amplify your message
  • Bring our attention to resources and collaboration opportunities we can share

Contact Daphne:
call or text: 617-627-9700 with a brief message regarding healing justice

We are members of Integrative Healers for Palestinian Human Rights.  Add your name or business here.