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SUMMARY:Forum 2014 - Health In Action
DESCRIPTION:This year’s forum\, chaired by Gill Walt\, Emeritus Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a long term Patron of Medact\, was in partnership with Health Poverty Action\, a London based international NGO. HPA\, whose social justice approach to health mirrors that of Medact\, works with the most marginalised communities in low income countries to strengthen their struggle for health. \nMore details on the conference page
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-forum-2014-health-action/
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SUMMARY:Launching The People Vs PFI
DESCRIPTION:Follow us on twitter @thepeoplevspfi and help spread the word by using the #PPLvsPFI hashtag\nPFI – The Biggest Scam You’ve Never Heard Of\n\n\n\nYou’d never be able to tell from the outside\, but hundreds of our hospitals\, schools\, prisons roads and even homes are no longer controlled by us\, the people. Why? Because politicians have given away our public buildings to private companies – only to have us rent them back at extortionate cost. Our money is making these tax-avoiding corporations rich\, while we end up losing frontline services. This is what they mean by the Private Finance Initiative (PFI).\n\n\n\nPFI – Doesn’t Make Sense\n\n\n\nEvery year PFI costs us £10 billion – more than the entire 2012 Olympics! The UK taxpayer will pay almost £300bn for PFI – but most of that will end up in offshore tax-havens.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe government and private contractors consistently conceal details of PFI contracts. Why should public spending be allowed to be kept secret?\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe worst part of it all is that the public were given no choice about PFI. PFI was implemented by corruption of the democratic process. We need to take back our rights.\n\n\n\nPFI – Needs To Go\n\n\n\nThere is an alternative – there are cheaper and better ways to provide public infrastructure. It’s time for us to stand up and say NO to the politicians and private contractors that want privatisation-by-stealth. It’s time to make public services ours again. Join public sector workers\, professional groups\, trade unionists\, campaigners\, researchers\, journalists and members of the public for a one day event to launch this vital campaign to end PFI. Hear from experts in the field to learn how you can make a difference\, and tell your own story about how PFI is harming you\, your family and your country.\n\n\nTo find out more\, learn how to contribute and register\, email: peoplevspfi@gmail.com\n\n\n\nMorning \n9-9:45 am Registratio9 \n8:45 am Introduction Why This Conference – Dr David McCoy \n10:00 – 11:30 am  Why PFI is Unacceptable \nPFI in context: financialisation\, privatisation and the debt industry – Ann Pettifor (Advocacy International) \nPFI impact on the NHS: financially disastrous and clinically unsafe – David Price (Queen Mary University) \nPFI inequity: shifting the debt burden to the next generation – Ashley Seager (Inter-generational Foundation) \nPFI and the Global South: financial extraction and the growing wealth gap – Nick Hildyard (Corner House) \nPFI and social housing: ruthless profiteering at the expense of democratic accountability – Stuart Hodkinson (University of Leeds) \n11.45– 1pm \nPublic Testimony Against PFI Campaigners\, public service users\, communities Chair: Dr. Jacky Davis\, (Keep Our NHS Public) \n2-4pm Parallel Workshops \nFollow the money – how does private finance work as a corporate scam? Who pays and who profits? – Dexter Whitfield (European Services Strategy Unit) & Tamasin Cave (Spinwatch) \nFreedom of Information for beginners – Sid Ryan (Centre for Investigative Journalism) & Megan Waugh (University of Leeds) \nGetting stories into local news and social media – Centre for Investigative Journalism\, John Lister (London Health Emergency) & Caroline Molloy (openDemocracy) \nContract monitoring – how to hold public bodies and private contractors to account – Stuart Hodkinson with PFI housing activists \nMobilising communities around protest and direct action – UK Uncut & Focus E15 Mothers \n4.15- 5.30pm Roundtable Debate on How to Fight PFI \nRoundtable Debate on: \n\nHow to Fight PFI\nLegal challenges\nCivic Strategy – local action\nNational co-ordination\nPolitical strategy – providing the alternatives\nMedia and Public Education\nContractual Strategy – helping managers locally\n\nChair: Dr Guddi Singh (Medact) \nSpeakers: Joel Benjamin (Move Your Money) Fran Boit (Positive Money) Richard Brooks (Private Eye) Rosa Curling (Leigh Day legal firm) Cat Hobbs (We Own It) John Lister (London Health Emergency) Dexter Whitfield (European Services Strategy Unit) \nBOOK YOUR PLACE NOW BELOW OR AT: http://www.peoplevspfi.org.uk/\nContact us: peoplevspfi@gmail.com\nClick here to download a PDF version of the programme
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/launching-people-vs-pfi/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140607T140000
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SUMMARY:Medact Afternoon Conference - Climate Change\, Tax Justice and Health
DESCRIPTION:Book your free ticket online via eventbrite by clicking here.\n This is an open mini-conference hosted by Queen Mary University London and Medact. It is one of several global health conferences aimed at creating a shared environment for academics\, researchers\, clinicians and activists working on areas of common interest and concern.  Speakers:  \n\nJohn Christiansen (Director\, Tax Justice Network)\n\n\nJohn is Director of Tax Justice Network (TJN). TJN is a independent international network launched in 2003. They conduct high-level research\, analysis and advocacy on international tax; on the international aspects of financial regulation; on the role of tax in society; and on the impacts of tax evasion\, tax avoidance\, tax ‘competition’ and tax havens. TJN seeks to create understanding and debate\, and to promote reform\, especially in poorer countries.\n\n\nJohn Hilary (Executive Director\, War on Want)\n\n\nJohn is Executive Director of War on Want. He has worked in the field of international development and human rights for the past 25 years\, and has authored numerous publications on globalisation\, trade and development. His new book\, The Poverty of Capitalism\, is published\nby Pluto Press.\n\n\nAlice Bell (Science Writer\, alicerosebell.com)\n\nAlice is a writer\, teacher and researcher interested in the politics of science\, technology and the environment. In addition to freelancing\, she has worked as a Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit\, University of Sussex\, Lectured in the Science Communication Group at Imperial\, has been a Special Projects Officer for Science Year and an Explainer at the Science Museum. She has also taught at UCL.\n\n The conference will be preceded by our Annual General Meeting – if you are member of Medact and wish to attend please register by emailing office [at] medact [org] To find out more about the AGM click here.   The afternoon conference is open to everyone\, student admission is free.  \nProgramme \n\n  2pm             Welcome and introduction                                 Dr David McCoy  2:15pm        Tax\, Development and Health  2:35pm        Tax\, development and health: What              John Christensen                     health professionals should know and do.  2:50pm        A Case study of Boots Alliance                          Elisabeth Molinari  3:05 pm       Discussion  3:25pm        Break  3:35pm        Politics\, Development and Health                        3:50pm        Capital Resource Flows                                         Natalie Sharples   4:05pm        Capitalism and Politics: How do we discuss         John Hilary                       this in polite society?                            4:25pm        Discussion           4:45pm        Science and Politics                                                   Alice Bell  5:05pm        Closing Remarks       \n\nFor more information please contact office [at] medact [dot] org\n For more information on the afternoon conference\, please contact office [at] medact.org.  \nBook your free ticket online via eventbrite by clicking here.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-afternoon-conference-climate-change-tax-justice-health/
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SUMMARY:2nd People's Health Assembly
DESCRIPTION:This event is being run by the People’s Health Movement. For more information about PHM\, please visit www.phm-uk.org.uk.  The People´s Health Movement (PHM) has its roots deep in the grassroots people’s movement and owes its genesis to many health networks and activists who have been concerned by the growing inequities in health over the last 25 years.  \nBackground and Context\n The word ‘austerity’ has recently gained prominence. It is used to describe a wide range of cuts to public spending across services including welfare support\, education\, health and social care. What is often overlooked is how ‘austerity’ is a deliberate policy by the government to redistribute resources from the poor to the rich through bailout of banks\, corporate tax evasion and private finance initiatives.  Austerity and its’ effects are being imposed selectively\, unevenly and unfairly across society with devastating impacts on disadvantaged groups pushing them further into poverty\, deprivation and poor health. It is also being used to justify a further expansion of privatisation\, corporate welfare and excessive profiteering – not least of all in the NHS. Whilst this is happening in various ways and at different speeds in Scotland\, England\, Wales and Northern Ireland\, it is a crisis affecting the whole of the UK.  Therefore\, the political\, economic and ideological underpinnings of austerity need to be questioned and challenged. This is a priority for those working in the health sector\, and for those seeking to reverse the trend of widening health inequalities.  \nWhy attend?\n – Learn more about the background to austerity measures and their impact on local and global determinants of health\, on health and related services and on health inequity in different parts of the UK. – Learn skills for movement building and activism with community and campaign groups; and strategies for challenging austerity – Dialogue and Network with organisations and individuals involved in health and social activism. – Take part in developing a People’s Health Manifesto and help build a progressive health movement to challenge austerity and exclusion throughout the UK  \nClick here to download the flyer.\nFor more information and to register\, please click here.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/2nd-peoples-health-assembly/
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