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Medact Sheffield Meeting
2022-04-05 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London)
Medact Sheffield are currently focusing their campaigns on Patients Not Passports and Health for a Green New Deal.
The group meets fortnightly on Tuesdays in a hybrid format – in person at the Medical School (room to be confirmed each time) and online via Zoom.
To get involved, sign up to their mailing list or email the group coordinator.

A People’s Economy: the fight for health and economic justice
2022-04-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Join us for the online launch of three brand new pamphlets developed by members of the Economic Justice & Health group.
These booklets explore the key campaigning areas of secure housing, tax justice and liveable incomes, and provide an informative resource for those looking to fight against economic and health injustice.
We’ll hear from a great line-up of speakers on the issues covered by the booklets:

Guppi Bola, strategist, organiser and co-founder of Decolonising Economics and author of “Reimagining Public Health”.
Abigail Acheampong, cleaner at Royal London Hospital. UNITE representative and key leader in the campaign that ended outsourcing in England’s biggest NHS trust, and
Representatives from Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth and London Coalition Against Poverty

A decade of austerity policies and vast cuts to public finances have contributed to worsening health for people and communities that are marginalised by our current economic systems.
As members of the health community, our work is as much about caring for those in immediate need as it is about advocating for and building new societal systems in which all are able to live well and thrive.
Download the digital booklets in advance of the event here:

Questions? Contact our campaign lead Jordi.
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Economic Justice & Health Group Meeting
2022-04-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
The Economic Justice & Health group meet regularly on Zoom 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 campaigner Jordi.
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Medact Sheffield Meeting
2022-04-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-04-26 19:00 - 20:30 | University of Sheffield Medical School, University of Sheffield, Beech Hill Road, Broomhall, Sheffield, S10 2RX, United Kingdom
Medact Sheffield are currently focusing their campaigns on Patients Not Passports and Health for a Green New Deal.

The group meets fortnightly on Tuesdays from 7pm – 8pm in a hybrid format — in person at the Medical School (room to be confirmed each time) and online on Zoom.

Sign up to the Medact Sheffield email list below to get involved — or email sheffield@medact.org.

Medact North East Meeting
2022-04-13 20:00 - 21:00
Medact North East is an active local group based around Newcastle, Sunderland, Tynemouth and across the North East.

The group meets at the same time 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:

Working with Newcastle City Council to endorse the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Writing to the Foreign Secretary requesting that British children in Syrian refugee camps be returned to Britain.

Giving talks on planetary health at the Royal Victoria infirmary.

Contacting Newcastle City Council to find out which energy supplier they use.

Fore more information or to join a meeting, get in touch via northeast@medact.org. Sign up to the North East group’s mailing list –

'The Five Health Frontiers: a New Radical Blueprint' with Chris Thomas
2022-04-14 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
A transformative approach to public health and social care in the wake of Covid-19.
“The boldest blueprint for public health since Bevan”—Sonia Adesara, NHS Doctor and Campaigner
Join us as we explore the The Five Health Frontiers: a New Radical Blueprint, out now from Pluto Press.
Author Chris Thomas, IPPR health and care Research Fellow, will explain the book’s main arguments and delve into strategies for the health justice movement given the opportunities posed by the current increased focus on public health.
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Christopher Thomas is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, where he leads on health and care. He is co-editor of Progressive Review, a journal of ideas and politics. He regularly comments on health and care issues in print and broadcast media, and regularly writes in the Independent and the Times. Before working at IPPR, he led on public health and inequality at major charities including Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK.

Economic Justice & Health group meeting
2022-04-25 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-05-09 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-05-23 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-06-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
If you’re interested in getting involved, register below. Questions? Get in touch with campaign and programme lead Jordi at jordilopezbotey@medact.org.

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Medact North East Meeting
2022-04-27 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
Medact North East is an active local group based around Newcastle, Sunderland, Tynemouth and across the North East.

The group meets at the same time 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:

Working with Newcastle City Council to endorse the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Writing to the Foreign Secretary requesting that British children in Syrian refugee camps be returned to Britain.

Giving talks on planetary health at the Royal Victoria infirmary.

Contacting Newcastle City Council to find out which energy supplier they use.

For more information or to join a meeting, get in touch via northeast@medact.org. Sign up to the North East group’s mailing list –

Economic Justice & Health New Joiners Meeting
2022-04-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Want to get involved in Medact’s Economic Justice campaigns?

The best way to get up to speed with the campaign and meet other members of the EJ&H group is to come to our next New Joiners meeting.

To challenge economic and health inequalities, we need to build power and get as many people as we can involved. You don’t need to work in healthcare to participate!

In this meeting you’ll:

find out about the group,
what we understand by economic and health inequality,
ongoing projects and campaigns,
how we can fight for economic and health justice,
hear from some of the people working in our different campaign areas, and
explore the ways you can get involved.

There will be monthly new joiners meetings so check our calendar or sign up to our mailing list to receive all the updates.

We can also arrange a call if you’re unable to attend any of the meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign. Just get in touch with Jordi!

Recommended actions:

Read our booklets on secure housing, liveable incomes and tax justice.
Read our ‘Health vs Wealth’ report
Learn more on this campaign area
Check out information on Medact membership

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Medact Scotland Group Meeting
2022-04-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Zoom
What’s going on in Scotland? Please come to our online meeting to find out and to share ideas! New members are very welcome. We’ll have some exciting updates from across Medact:

Reem Abu-Hayyeh, Campaign and Policy Lead on peace and security, will give an overview of the role and mission of Medact,
Long-time member Michael Orgel will talk about the work of the Nuclear Weapons Group and Don’t Bank on the Bomb,
Claire Goughan will discuss the group’s climate work and upcoming actions, and
Sian Ashby will share info about the Glasgow’s Greener Practice group.

There will be time to talk about the in-person meeting we’re planning in the autumn to connect with other Scottish health activists and health organisations and encourage them to help progress our interconnected work. We’ll hear from Carey Lunan, GP and previously chair of the College of GPs in Scotland.
If you’re involved with another health organisation that you think should be invited in the autumn, please let us know!
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Migrant Solidarity Group meeting
2022-05-05 18:30 - 20:00 | Medact Office, The Brick Yard, 28 Charles Square, London, N1 6HT, United Kingdom
Medact’s Migrant Solidarity Group meets monthly. The group develops projects to defend access to healthcare rights for refugees and migrants, and informs civil society about existing rights and barriers to accessing healthcare. They are a friendly and welcoming group of healthcare professionals and students who invite people to join and commit as little or as much time as they feel able. They attend events which raise awareness of forced migration, from theatre, poetry evenings, debates and lectures.

Sign up to the MSG mailing list to receive meeting details:

Organising for Power: The Core Fundamentals
2022-05-10 17:00 - 19:00 | Online
Do you want to build your skills to support your campaigning for health justice?

Medact will be joining the Organising for Power (O4P) Training Sessions to learn, practice and reflect together on core skills to bring into our campaigning for health justice.

Organising for Power: The Core Fundamentals is organised by lead trainer Jane McAlevey and hosted by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

Jane McAlevey has spent years organising in health settings across the UK and Europe – this training exists to support groups to develop core skills to strengthen their campaigns. We will be joining these sessions as Medact to collectively explore approaches to organising in the workplace and communities, how to bring people in and build power for health justice. We will practice the core skills and reflect on how we can bring these practices into our campaigns.

You can sign up below to participate with Medact for the O4P training — please register your interest by Friday 22nd April.

Logistics

The 6-week course is due to take place every Tuesday from 5 – 7pm BST between the 10th May and 14th June.

We will hold an additional session at the end of the course to reflect as Medact on the training.

We appreciate that starting at 5pm may be difficult for people to join and we would like to support as many people as possible to access and engage in the training — so are considering running an alternative later timeslot of 7 – 9pm on Wednesday. Please indicate which timings would work for you on the registration form.

For the training, it is important as far as possible to have a consistent group of people, so please only register if you would be able to make the majority of sessions.

Further Information

To see more details and the background to the programme, please see this Organising for Power Explainer.

If you have any questions at all about joining the training with Medact, please get in touch with Medact’s Organiser, Ben Eder, at beneder@medact.org.

Registration has now closed!

Patients Not Passports Action Working Group
2022-05-10 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-24 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-31 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
The Patients Not Passports Network is growing! We’re launching new National Working Groups that will support local organising happening around the country and help plan the big events and actions we run through the year.
The action planning working group currently meets weekly to organise and strategise upcoming PnP actions, with the next action scheduled for June.
Interested? Sign up here.

Medact North East Group Meeting
2022-05-11 20:00 - 21:00
Medact North East is an active local group based around Newcastle, Sunderland, Tynemouth and across the North East.
The group meets at the same time every two weeks. The time is used to discuss current campaigns and anything else relevant. Some past campaigns and activities include:

Working with Newcastle City Council to endorse the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
Writing to the Foreign Secretary requesting that British children in Syrian refugee camps be returned to Britain.
Giving talks on planetary health at the Royal Victoria infirmary.
Contacting Newcastle City Council to find out which energy supplier they use.

Each meeting is facilitated by a different person and they welcome new members! If you want more information or the Zoom link to join, please feel free to get in touch via northeast@medact.org.

Patients Not Passports National Network Meeting
2022-05-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Patients Not Passports National Network Meetings are for local and national campaigners.
Are you interested in PNP and keen to get involved at a local or national level? Register for our next New Joiners meeting.
If you’ve already attended a New Joiners meeting and would like to join one of our national working groups, you can do that here.
Any questions about PNP? Get in touch with our Campaigns Officer Sarah Lasoye.

Prevent duty in the NHS: May action-planning meeting
2022-05-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
Join the Securitisation of Health group’s meeting to develop our plans around how to counter the Prevent duty in healthcare, and its connections with broader securitisation and racism in the NHS.
You must register for this meeting below, and details of the Zoom meeting will be emailed to you on the day.
If you are unable to attend but are interested in being involved in future meetings or actions, you can sign up to our Securitisation of Health mailing list or email reemabuhayyeh@medact.org
Our main priority is that as much as possible, health workers, patients and others impacted by Prevent who may attend this event feel safe both professionally and personally participating in Medact’s activities. As such, we ask that if you work in Prevent, the police or the Home Office, that you do not register to attend this event.
For any queries or for further discussion on this, please email Reem!
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Online Rally: End The Hostile Environment!
2022-05-25 18:00 - 20:00
The system is not broken: UK borders are hostile by design.
10 years since the introduction of the Hostile Environment, the Solidarity Knows No Borders Community of Resistance (comprising over 60 grassroots organisations including #PatientsNotPassports) are calling for a national Week of Action to #EndtheHostileEnvironment, from the 13 to 19 June.
If you are ready to stand up and fight back, join us for the launch rally on May 25, where we will hear from speakers on the frontlines of the fight for migrant and racial justice.
Speakers include:

Andrea Martinez – Kanlungan Filipino Consortium
Asad Rehman – War on Want
Ed Wong – IWGB
Erfan – Former Resident of Napier Barracks
Gracie Mae Bradley – organiser and co-author of “Against Borders”
Loraine Mponela – Coventry Asylum and Refugee Action Group (CARAG)
Mariam Yusuf – Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) Manchester
Marissa Begonia – Voice of Domestic Workers
Mary Atkinson – JCWI
Maya Goodfellow – journalist and author of “Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Become the
Scapegoats”
Polish Migrants Organise for Change (POMOC)
Nanou – Abolish Reporting Campaign
Rossana Leal – The Refugee Buddy Project
Simba Mujakachi – Justice for Simba Campaign
Tipping Point UK
Veeca Smith – These Walls Must Fall
West London Resistance Collective
Zita Holbourne – BARAC UK
Zrinka Bralo – Migrants Organise

Read more & register via Action Network.

Medact Research Network Quarterly Meeting
2022-05-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
The Medact Rights Research Network Quarterly is a space for us to come together, share our work, discuss new projects, or delve into deep discussion about research that has caught your interest. We aim to collectively develop our thought and research practices.
Our network meets every 3 months, and is a great way to connect with others interested in research in this area. If you’re looking for a way to get involved in new projects or invite people to join your own – the quarterly meeting is a great place to start.
As always, we invite you to share your work with the group! This could be talking briefly about a research project you’ve recently completed or are currently working on, or a paper you’ve seen that you’d like to share and discuss with the group.
You’ll have 5 minutes to introduce the project, and then we’ll have space in the meeting for people to further discuss the projects that interest them. It’s a great opportunity to explain a new idea and connect with other researchers keen to collaborate on your project.
Interested? Get in touch with Sarah, including a few details of what you’d like to talk about!
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Medact North East Meeting
2022-05-25 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom

Challenging the Securitisation of Health: New Joiners Meeting
2022-05-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Zoom
Are you concerned about the encroachment of policing and counter-terror policies in healthcare?
Do you want to take a stand with others to protect health workers’ duty of care to their patients, and against the erosion of trust?
Join the Medact Securitisation of Health Group’s first ever New Joiners meeting on Thursday 26 May!
This meeting will provide a space for people interested in getting involved in the group’s activities to meet others, recap our recent actions to End Prevent in Healthcare and the Alternative Trainings on Prevent series, and explore the different ways you can get involved.
This meeting is the best way to get up to speed with the work of the Securitisation of Health Group and the work to end Prevent in healthcare!
“It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.” – Angela Davis
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Economic Justice & Health Open Meeting
2022-05-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Want to get involved in Medact’s Economic Justice campaigns?
The best way to get up to speed with the campaign and meet other members of the EJ&H group is to come to our next open meeting.
To challenge economic and health inequalities, we need to build power and get as many people as we can involved. You don’t need to work in healthcare to participate! Register below.
In this meeting you’ll:

find out about the group,
what we understand by economic and health inequality,
ongoing projects and campaigns,
how we can fight for economic and health justice,
hear from some of the people working in our different campaign areas, and
explore the ways you can get involved.

There are monthly open joiners meetings and weekly group meetings, so check our calendar or sign up to the mailing list to receive updates.
We can also arrange a call if you’re unable to attend any of the meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign. Just get in touch with Jordi!
Recommended actions:

Read our booklets on secure housing, liveable incomes and tax justice.
Read our ‘Health vs Wealth’ report
Learn more on this campaign area
Check out information on Medact membership

[Registration has now closed]

Global Health Watch 6 Launch
2022-05-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Medact Office, The Brick Yard, 28 Charles Square, London, N1 6HT, United Kingdom
Global Health Watch 6 Launch Event – 30 May 2022Watch this video on YouTube

7PM – 8:30PM BST

Join us to celebrate the publication of the sixth edition of Global Health Watch, the definitive alternative voice on health compiled by activists and academics from around the world.

Order your discounted copy from Medact

We’ll hear from speakers who contributed to this essential volume, which integrates rigorous analysis with stories of struggle and hope for radical transformation, at this once-in-a-generation moment of focus on the issue of health justice.

Speakers include:

Dr Chiara Bodini, co-editor of GHW

Members of the Medact Research Network: Roman Gnaegi, Catia Confortini and Michael Orgel

Dr Annabel Sowemimo, sexual and reproductive health doctor and founder of Decolonising Contraception

Dr Lauren Paremoer, senior lecturer in the Political Studies Department at the University of Cape Town and member of PHM South Africa

Rhiannon Osborne, medical student, organiser with Health for a Green New Deal and Stop Cambo, and member of People’s Health Movement UK.

Global Health Watch (GHW), now in its sixth edition, is the definitive alternative voice on health. Published since 2003, with contributions from activists and academics from around the world, GHW6 integrates rigorous analysis of the social, economic, political and environmental determinants of health with stories of struggle and hope for radical transformation.

The book has been co-produced by People’s Health Movement, Medact, Third World Network, Health Poverty Action, Medico International, ALAMES, Viva Salud and Sama.

We’re pleased to hold this event in collaboration with Health Poverty Action, People’s Health Movement UK and People’s Health Movement Scotland—please check out their work!

This event will be held on Zoom, but we are encouraging people to come together to watch and discuss the event in person, if you feel comfortable.

Medact is holding an in-person gathering to watch the event, so check the box when you register if you want to join us at our office in Hoxton.

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Medact North East Group Meeting
2022-06-08 20:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
