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SUMMARY:London Housing and Health Meeting (online)
DESCRIPTION:*Due to planned TfL strikes on the London Underground\, this meeting will now take place online via Zoom* \n\n\n\nMedact’s EJ Housing & Health Group is organising to improve policies for better access to secure and sustainable housing. This includes working alongside local groups to support local campaigns\, as well as demanding policy change on a national level for better support for social housing\, community-owned housing stock and protections for renters. \n\n\n\nSince our last meeting the group has continued with its local work in Harrow\, with outreach and flyering sessions with local organisers and tenants as well as media work\, and has supported the London Renters Union with delivery of events in Brent and other locations. Over the summer\, a Housing and Health Research Group was also formed. \n\n\n\nIn this meeting\, you will be hearing from the members involved in our work\, get updates on our local organising work in North West London\, and help us develop the next steps and identify potential campaigns in other boroughs. \n\n\n\nWe will also be joined by representatives from the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA)\, who will be speaking about their Healthy Homes Campaign pushing for introduction of a Healthy Homes Bill. \n\n\n\nYou don’t have to be a regular member of the EJ&H group or a health worker to get involved\, everyone is welcome!If you’re unable to attend any of the meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign you can contact Jordi: jordilopezbotey@medact.org \n\n\n[Registration has now closed] \n\n\n\nBackground \n\n\n\nThe housing system in the UK is broken. Currently\, 1.6 million households are on social housing waiting lists and millions more are struggling to meet unaffordable rents in the private sector.  One in five dwellings in England fail to meet decent standards for living\, with disregard for basic health and safety measures all too common. Housing is not equitably distributed in the UK: poorer households\, ethnic minority groups\, the elderly and adults with disabilities are all more likely to live in low-quality\, unsafe\, insecure housing. Despite all of this\, social and private rents are growing faster than the cost of living. Social housing stock is dwindling\, yet there are around five times more empty homes in the country than households in need of housing. \n\n\n\nAs part of the health community\, we see and care for the symptoms of an unjust economic system. We are united in struggle with friends and colleagues within and beyond the NHS in organising to end housing-related health inequalities. You can read more in our booklet The Public Health Case for Secure Housing
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/housing-health-mtg-oct/
LOCATION:Medact Office\, The Brick Yard\, 28 Charles Square\, London\, N1 6HT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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SUMMARY:The Oil Machine – FREE film screening with Medact Leeds
DESCRIPTION:Explore our economic\, historical and emotional entanglement with fossil fuels – can we break the bind in time? \n\n\n\n\n\nHow can we break our addition to oil? Join Medact Leeds for a screening of the new film The Oil Machine at 7pm on Thursday 5th October in Beeston Village Community Centre as part of the South Leeds Green Film Festival for an inspiring screening and conversation on our energy future. \n\n\n\n\nSign up on Eventbrite!\n\n\n\n\nThe Oil Machine explores our economic\, historical and emotional entanglement with fossil fuels by looking at the conflicting imperatives around North Sea oil & gas. This invisible machine at the core of our economy and society now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil? \n\n\n\nThe film brings together a wide range of voices from oil company executives\, economists\, young activists\, oil workers\, pension fund managers\, and considers how this machine can be tamed\, dismantled or repurposed. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.theoilmachine.org/
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/the-oil-machine-free-film-screening-leeds/
LOCATION:Beeston Village Community Centre\, Beeston Park Place\, Beeston\, LS11 8DQ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Films,Group,Meetings,Social
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231011T193000
DTSTAMP:20260513T193454
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SUMMARY:October Action Planning Meeting – Health for a Green New Deal
DESCRIPTION:Want to join a movement of health workers fighting for climate justice? \n\n\n\nJoin the next Health for a Green New Deal campaign Action Planning Meeting! You’ll meet our new campaigner\, Maria Carvalho\, to explore a renewed strategy and focus for climate justice campaigning. \n\n\n\nThe Health for a Green New Deal Action Planning group organises national activity and supports our Health for a Green New Deal network. We have started meeting fortnightly to discuss the current climate & health justice landscape and strategise how we can contribute to the wider movement. \n\n\n\nYou don’t have to have been involved before to get involved\, everyone is welcome! If you’re unable to attend any of the meetings but are keen to get involved or develop a local campaign\, get in touch. \n\n\n\nRegister below to receive the meeting link! \n\n\n\nFor more info or any questions\, email Maria: mariacarvalho@medact.org. \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/h4gnd-oct-action-planning/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231016T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231016T203000
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SUMMARY:Economic Justice & Health Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Economic Justice & Health group meet regularly to discuss current and future campaigns\, plan events\, work on strategy and share knowledge. The group is open to all and welcomes new members. Questions? Email our EJ&H campaign lead Jordi. \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/ejh-oct16/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231023T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231023T203000
DTSTAMP:20260513T193454
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SUMMARY:Nuclear Weapons Group meeting
DESCRIPTION:Medact’s Nuclear Weapons Group represents the longest standing aspect of Medact’s work towards nuclear abolition\, and to address war\, armed violence and conflict as global threats to health. \n\n\n\nWe will meet to provide an update on our ongoing work\, and discuss the current global political landscape as related to nuclear weapons and disarmament. Register below to receive the meeting link! \n\n\n\nFor more info or with questions\, email Sarah: sarahlasoye@medact.org \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/nwg-oct-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231025T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231025T193000
DTSTAMP:20260513T193454
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SUMMARY:Health for a Green New Deal: Action Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Want to join a movement of health workers fighting for climate justice? Join the next Health for a Green New Deal campaign Action Planning Meeting!  \n\n\n\nThe Health for a Green New Deal Action Planning group organises national activity and supports our Health for a Green New Deal network. We meet every 2 weeks\, on the second and fourth Wednesday of the month\, to discuss the current climate & health justice landscape and strategise how we can contribute to the wider movement. \n\n\n\nYou don’t have to have been involved before to get involved now—everyone is welcome! If you’re unable to attend any of the meetings but are keen to get involved or develop a local campaign\, get in touch. For more info or any questions\, email Maria: mariacarvalho@medact.org. \n\n\n\nRegister below to receive the meeting link. \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/h4gnd-oct25/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231025T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231025T210000
DTSTAMP:20260513T193454
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SUMMARY:Medact North East Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Medact North East is an active local group based around Newcastle\, Sunderland\, Tynemouth and across the North East. \nThe group meets every two weeks. Each meeting is facilitated by a different person and they welcome new members! The time is used to discuss current campaigns and anything else relevant. Some past campaigns and activities include: \n\nWorking with Newcastle City Council to endorse the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.\nWriting to the Foreign Secretary requesting that British children in Syrian refugee camps be returned to Britain.\nGiving talks on planetary health at the Royal Victoria infirmary.\nContacting Newcastle City Council to find out which energy supplier they use.\n\nFor more information or to join a meeting in-person\, get in touch at northeast@medact.org. Register to receive the Zoom link. \n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/north-east-mtg-oct25/
CATEGORIES:Group,Hybrid,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231026T193000
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SUMMARY:Securitisation of Health group: October Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid meeting: Online and at Medact’s office in Hoxton\, London \n\n\n\nWhat is the securitisation of health?\n\n\n\nA number of policing and counter-extremism measures are embedded by the government into UK health services\, which at times require health workers to work closely with the police and other security agencies. \n\n\n\nThese measures risk undermining therapeutic relationships\, confidentiality and trust in practitioners – as well as drawing health services and workers into becoming an arm of policing and counter-terror agencies. \n\n\n\nThrough research and campaigns\, Medact aims to shift understandings of ‘security’\, from typically “hard” measures (border enforcement\, a punitive criminal justice system\, counter-terror measures) and advocate for collective and human security\, health and wellbeing. Read more about our work on Securitisation here. \n\n\n\nAbout the group\n\n\n\nThe Securitisation of Health group is for health workers interested in working on these issues through campaigning\, lobbying and research. New members are welcome!  \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions or concerns about attending\, please email our Campaign Lead Sarah Lasoye at sarahlasoye@medact.org  \n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/sohg-october-meeting/
LOCATION:Medact Office\, The Brick Yard\, 28 Charles Square\, London\, N1 6HT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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