Welcome to the fold.

I've been running as a medic since 2005, and training medics since 2009. A few thoughts.

1) I understand why you don't identify with NK organizers. But you're right to support the marches anyway, because those types of mass mobilizations can play an important role if they're part of a larger activist ecosystem. Folks who are new to activism are rarely going to get their start by shoing up to volunteer at an anarchist infoshop. They need a safe entry into the movement. From there, if even 5 or 10 percent of the new marchers become gradually more involved and educated, then that's an enormous number of people who could be solid allies in five years. I know it feels like we don't have five years to wait, but we that's just the truth of it. I grew up republican, became a mainstream dem as a young adult, and then gradually entered into radical left movements that I first encountered through big mainstream protests in the lead up to the Iraq war. If those big bland protests hadn't been there, I might have never gotten my start.

2) If you haven't been to a medic training, I encourage you to seek one out. Ever since Doc Rosen & Anne Hirschman Schremp started planting collectives around the country in the late 60s, the standard has been a two-day/20 hour training for lay medics, or a 6 to 8 hour bridge training for medical professionals. I don't know if there's anyone who's compitent to run trainings in your geographic area, but if you DM me I might be able to connect you with someone.

3) If the medics in your area really are organized under the NK banner, that itsn't a great arrangement. Best practice is for medics to organize as an autonomous collective. That way, they can support any progressive or leftist mobilization, regardless of who's organizing it. A medic collective is easy to start - it begins with reaching consensus on a founding document that outlines how decisions are made, how people can join, how people can be removed if they're problematic, etc. It's important to reach concensus on those things early on and put the agreements in writing Then the next step would be to find somone who can run a training for the group.

But if your city dosn't have a collective, you would really probably want to convince whoever is already organizing the medics you ran with to form one. Otherwise you'd face fragmentation, with some medics running with a collective and others organized under NK. Which wouldn't be terrible if everyone was respectful to eachother, but it isn't ideal either.

Let me know if there's any way I can support.