Patients Not Passports National Network Meeting
2022-05-17 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-07-12 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/London) | 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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Patients Not Passports Action Working Group
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.

Economic Justice & Health group meeting
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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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
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 –

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

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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

Patients Not Passports Action Working Group
2022-06-13 19:00 - 20:00

Economic Justice & Health group meeting
2022-06-20 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 North East Group Meeting
2022-06-22 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.

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 New Joiners Meeting June 2022
2022-06-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
Want to get involved in the Patients Not Passports campaign?

The best way to get up to speed with the campaign and get connected with work going on across the country is to come to our next online New Joiners meeting. To win, we need everyone working together to oppose NHS charging – you don’t need to work in healthcare to be involved!

In the meeting we’ll explore how NHS charging works, how we can fight back, hear from some of the groups working on the Patients Not Passports campaign, and explore the different ways you can get involved.

The meeting will be held online on Zoom, Thursday 30th June, 7:00pm to 8:30pm.

If you can’t make the next New Joiners meeting, don’t worry as you can see and register for dates for future meetings below. We can also make time for a quick phone call with you or connect you directly with your local group – get in touch by emailing sarahlasoye@medact.org.

If you have time, you could:

check out How NHS staff are fighting back against the ‘hostile environment’ for an overview of the campaign,

watch this brilliant video from DocsNotCops on NHS Charging and the fight for Universal Healthcare, or

listen to this excellent podcast Internal Borders in Britain: Still We Rise Podcast – exploring the development and use of internal borders in Britain, and their particular harms on minoritised communities.

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Economic Justice & Health group meeting
2022-07-04 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-09-12 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-09-26 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 EJ&H campaigner Jordi.
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'The Suspect' Author Talk: Mental Health, Counterterrorism, and the Surveillance State
2022-07-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Brady Arts & Community Centre, 192-196 Hanbury St, London, E1 5HU, United Kingdom
*** RESCHEDULED: from 21st June to 5th July ***
Due to industrial action on the transport network, we have moved the date of this event to Tuesday 5th July. Solidarity with the striking rail workers!
What impact has two decades’ worth of policing and counterterrorism had on the state of mind of Muslims in Britain? The Suspect draws on the author’s experiences to take the reader on a journey through British counterterrorism practices and the policing of Muslims.
Join Rizwaan Sabir and Tarek Younis for discussion on the traumatising effects of Sabir’s surveillance, arrest and detention for suspected terrorism.
Writing publicly for the first time about the impacts of these experiences, Sabir argues that these harmful outcomes are not the result of errors in government planning, but the consequences of using a counterinsurgency warfare approach to fight terrorism and police Muslims.
To resist the injustice of these policies and practices, we need to centre our lived experiences and build networks of solidarity and support.
Please register to receive a 20% discount code for The Suspect when purchasing via Pluto Press.
This is an in-person event with an option to livestream via Zoom. The venue is Brady Arts & Community Centre, 192-196 Hanbury St, London E1 5HU (map).
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Dr Rizwaan Sabir is a Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK and author of The Suspect: Counterterrorism, Islam, and the Security State.
Dr Tarek Younis is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex University. He researches and writes on Islamophobia, racism in mental health, and the securitisation of clinical settings. He teaches on the impact of culture, religion, globalization and security policies on mental health.

Medact North East Meeting
2022-07-06 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 –

Securitisation of Health group meeting
2022-07-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
**Postponed: new date TBA**
A number of policing and counter-extremism measures are embedded by the government into UK health services, at times requiring health workers to work closely with the police and other security agencies.
These 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.
Through 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.
The Securitisation of Health group is for health workers interested in working on these issues through campaigning, lobbying and research. New members are welcome! If you have any questions, please email Reem Abu-Hayyeh.

Economic Justice & Health group meeting
2022-07-18 19:00 - 20:30

Economic Justice & Health: Welfare & Health Workshop
2022-07-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Zoom
Healthcare workers are in a unique position to witness how contact with the welfare system can be harmful to people’s physical and mental health.

Healing Justice London’s Deaths by Welfare Project investigates deaths linked to welfare reform and the violence of state austerity. Deaths by Welfare is led by China Mills and co-created with John Pring (Disability News Service). The knowledge and leadership of disabled people fighting fatal reforms is central to this work.

The Deaths by Welfare Project and Medact are working together to better understand how healthcare workers bear witness to the harms of the welfare system; navigate complicity in a system that is often disempowering and enraging; and how they practice, or dream of practising, allyship with those with lived experience.

Register

This workshop is for you if you…

are a healthcare worker who witnesses the impact of the welfare state on people’s health

are navigating feelings of complicity with a system that doesn’t leave you many other options

want to think more about, or share existing practices of, allyship

This will be an exploratory space for sharing, discussion and collective learning, which aims to:

identify and understand the kinds of resources that healthcare workers know about and/or need to support people in their contact with the welfare system

think collectively about what allyship might, and does, look like

Please read before registering…

Everything about the project is distressing, so we’ve spent a lot of time creating processes for supporting people to engage – co-designed and informed by the expertise of people with lived experience.

However, the session will likely be triggering for different people in different ways, especially depending on how folks are positioned in relation to the welfare system, their experiences of cumulative harm, trauma, and distress.

We want to honour the legitimacy of your self-knowledge (that you know yourself best) while also understanding how the violence of the system shows up in so many ways (in our bodies, and our emotions) both every day and sometimes unexpectedly. We would like you to participate in a way that honours how you’re feeling and that prioritises care. There will be other opportunities to connect with us if now isn’t right for you. Please do what’s right for you at this time.

Please find some resources available here:

HJL aftercare menu

The GEN Grief toolkit

HJL’s events including monthly grief circle, weekly breath circle and restorative yoga

Registrations are limited to 30 people. Please only register if you are able to attend. Once capacity has been reached, you will be waitlisted and contacted if a space becomes available.

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Medact Research Network Quarterly Meeting
2022-09-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Zoom
The Medact 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 ONLINE every three months, and is a great way to connect with others interested in activism-oriented research. If you’re looking for a way to get involved in new projects, the quarterly meeting is a good place to start.
At the 7 September meeting, we will:

hear from Dr Jo Dobbin, a member of the Migrant Solidarity Group, about research into contingency accommodation and charging in primary care
hear from Dr Hil Aked, Medact’s Research and Policy Manager, about the research network’s upcoming project ‘Criminalising Distress’ and how you can get involved

Interested? Register below! Feel free to get in touch with Hil if you have any questions.
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Medact North East Meeting
2022-09-14 20:00 - 21:00, 2022-09-28 20:00 - 21:00
