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SUMMARY:Health Lobby of MPs for Green Jobs
DESCRIPTION:Why green jobs?\n\n\n\nAs many as 1.9m jobs are at risk of being lost permanently as a result of the impacts of the pandemic. It is vital that the Government now intervenes to invest in job creation\, but if our recovery only increases emissions\, we will only pivot from one crisis to another: Climate Change. \n\n\n\nCreating new\, secure\, well-paid green jobs has to be a priority if we are to build a healthy and sustainable recovery post-COVID. Research by Green New Deal UK shows that\, with the right investment\, the Government could create as many as 1.2m green jobs over the next two years alone. \n\n\n\nGreen jobs aren’t just what we might traditionally expect: people in hard-hats building wind turbines. They’re also jobs in vital\, low-carbon\, sectors such as education and healthcare. By focusing on such key industries\, a green recovery can help us tackle staff-shortages in the NHS at the same time as fighting the climate crisis! \n\n\n\n\n\nHow do I join the lobby?\n\n\n\nSign up via the form. After registering you will receive a link to our digital action guide that sets out the steps on how to set up a meeting with your MP and then prepare for it. We will then be in touch to make sure you linked up with other health workers/students in your area interested in joining the lobby. \n\n\n\nI’m feeling a bit unprepared to lobby my MP….\n\n\n\nThere will be some resources to help you in the action guide\, including a template letter to use to send to your MP and a DIY workshop plan on lobbying MPs that you can look at together with your group. We will also be running MP lobbying training sessions together with Hope For Future on 12th April and 22nd April – you can sign up for these via the registration form. \n\n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/health-lobby-of-mps-for-green-jobs/
LOCATION:Constituencies up and down the UK!
CATEGORIES:Actions
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SUMMARY:Race & Health Justice Reading Group ─ "The Language of Race"
DESCRIPTION:In March\, the government’s report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities was published. The report has come under heavy criticism from charities working on racial equality to medical communities. While both BMJ and BMA expressed disappointment at and concerns with the biased and scientifically flawed report\, the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ response is the most courageous voice amongst medical authorities. They write: \nWe see this as another wasted opportunity for the Government. We recognise that people from ethnic minority groups will likely feel let down\, anger and sadness at the CRED report. \nAt Medact’s Race & Health Justice Group\, we were shaken and angered by the report and felt it was important to explore how we can stand up in the face of tools which may be used against us. \nFor our third reading group\, we would like to focus on ‘the language of race’ section of the report (pages 33-37). We wish to go deeper to explore the process of racialisation and reflect on our shared language of race when engaging in the discourse on race and racism. Without denying the importance of politics and power relations behind the report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities\, we also believe it reveals the harms that arise when race and racism as a historical and socio-cultural construct are denied in the lives of individuals and societies. \nHere are some questions to consider whilst reading the section of the report: \n\nWhat is happening here in the section titled ‘language of race’?\nHow do you relate to what is happening in this section? What themes stood out to you the most?\nWhat are your thoughts on the Commission’s proposed framework to distinguish between different forms of racial disparity and racism?\nWhat terms do we use when discussing racism? Are we using the same terms with the same meaning?\nHave you come across any responses to the report – how did these speak to you?\n\nPracticalities and accessibility:\n\nWe will circulate our group ground rules when you sign up\, and ask that you only join us if you are happy to commit to these principles.\nPlease read the article ahead of the reading group. If you would like an audio version\, or to read it collectively with others before the group\, please email us.\nWe expect most attendees will be people working in healthcare\, but the group is open to all.\nThe reading group will be on Zoom – we will run through logistics at the start of the meeting\, but if you are new to Zoom you can read this user guide. The Zoom application will download automatically when you click on a meeting link for the first time.\nWe can provide captioning and/or BSL interpreting\, please email us & we’ll arrange\nYou are welcome to have your camera on or off\, and to eat during the session\, but please do come willing to contribute to the discussion!\nWe will have a scheduled break half way through.\nWe will cap numbers in order to have a small and active discussion.\nPlease let us know if there is anything else we can do to support you to attend.\n\nTo sign up to the reading group\, or for any questions about it\, please email racehealthjustice@medact.org \nIf you are unable to join this session\, please do join our mailing list to hear about future sessions. \nRegister below to receive joining details for this online event \n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/race-health-justice-reading-group-the-language-of-race/
LOCATION:Zoom
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