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SUMMARY:Medact Bristol group meeting: November
DESCRIPTION:Medact Bristol is interested and engaged in local\, national and international issues that affect public health. Since its creation\, Medact Bristol has focused its efforts on campaigns on climate\, environment and sustainability\, divestment\, and migrant access to healthcare. The group’s current focus is supporting  Reclaim our Buses\, a campaign in Bristol to bring buses back into public control. New members are welcome.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-bristol-november/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20241009T161124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T161125Z
UID:34510-1730314800-1730318400@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Economic Justice National Organising Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Medact Economic Justice & Health group meets 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. \n\n\n\nThe main focus of this meeting will be to discuss the strategy of our housing and health lobbying and advocacy campaign focusing on Royal Colleges. We will also provide updates on our work as part of the Homes for Us alliance. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions please contact jordilopezbotey@medact.org!
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/economic-justice-national-organising-group-meeting-oct-2024-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241021T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241021T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240910T160956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T143832Z
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SUMMARY:Making the Case for Social Homes: Messaging workshop with NEON
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online messaging workshop in collaboration with NEON! Learn how to communicate the public health case for social homes to a wider audience\, for use in broadcast media and campaigning. \n\n\n\nHomes should be a place of comfort\, health and security. Instead\, across the UK\, homes have become sites of illness. They are rendered cold and damp by poor insulation and sky-high energy prices. They are insecure due to unaffordable rents\, evictions\, and poor-quality housing. \n\n\n\nWe need to rethink housing beyond commodification and take action to reclaim housing for our health and as a public health asset. \n\n\n\nWith a new government in place\, new opportunities will emerge to cut through the political and media narrative on homes and communicate our vision of the public health case for social homes. \n\n\n\nThis workshop is for health workers and campaigners who want to use health framing in their campaigns. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a workshop on how campaigners can effectively advocate for social homes! \n\n\n\nWe will cover: \n\n\n\n\nMessaging guidance on how to use health framing to draw the links between the housing system and our physical and mental health \n\n\n\nHow to use case studies from your experience as health workers\n\n\n\nSolutions that lead to a better health and housing for everyone\n\n\n\n\nGet the messaging guide here!
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/making-the-case-for-social-homes-social-homes-messaging-workshop-with-neon/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Training,Workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T184500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20241001T132141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T115156Z
UID:34375-1729190700-1729197000@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:London Housing & Health meeting: October
DESCRIPTION:Medact’s Housing & Health Group is organising to improve policies for better access to secure and sustainable housing. \n\n\n\nThis 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\nIn this meeting\, you will be hearing from the members involved in our work\, get updates on our local organising\, and help us develop the next steps and identify potential campaigns in other boroughs. \n\n\n\nYou don’t have to be a regular member of the Economic Justice &Health group or a health worker to get involved – everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nSign up to the Medact London email list to hear about all Housing & Health London Meetings! If you’re unable to attend meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign\, you can contact Jordi:  jordilopezbotey@medact.org. \n\n\n\nRegister to attend!
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/london-housing-health-meeting4/
LOCATION:Pelican House\, 144 Cambridge Heath Road\, London\, London\, E1 5QJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241017T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240821T111206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241001T133729Z
UID:33851-1729188000-1729193400@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Nuclear Weapons Group meeting: October
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
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/nwg-october/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241016T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240821T110304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T110633Z
UID:33844-1729101600-1729107000@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Securitisation of Health group meeting: October
DESCRIPTION:What 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\nThis event will be held online on Zoom.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/securitisation-meeting-october/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241009T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241009T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240821T104329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T104331Z
UID:33819-1728504000-1728507600@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact North East group meeting: October
DESCRIPTION:Medact North East are a collective of health workers and students based across the North East\, from Northumberland to Newcastle to Middlesbrough! \nCurrently we are working on a climate justice campaign\, supporting a grassroots group to win the fight against a large waste incinerator on Teesside\, which would pollute the air of the local community as well as accelerating the climate crisis.  \nWe are also exploring campaigns around migrant health justice issues through our new ‘Migrant Health’ group.  This includes supporting No to Hassockfield which is fighting to shut down a women’s detention centre in County Durham.     \nThe group meets monthly. 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. For more information or to join a meeting in-person\, get in touch at northeast@medact.org. or subscribe below.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-north-east-october/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240821T110121Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T110123Z
UID:33808-1728412200-1728415800@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Glasgow group meeting: October
DESCRIPTION:Medact Glasgow is a collective of healthcare workers\, students and people from other related social disciplines. We organise around\, learn about and share information on campaigns related to health justice. \n\n\n\nOur current focus is on fighting fuel poverty. We are working alongside Fuel Poverty Action\, who organise for affordable and sustainable energy and against the inadequate living conditions which are making people sick. \n\n\n\nOur main meeting is in person (or you can join on Zoom) on the second Tuesday of each month – all are welcome! Please get in touch with us on glasgow@medact.org if you want to join our meetings or find out more\, or subscribe to the mailing list:
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-glasgow-october/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241007T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241007T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240821T104021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T104024Z
UID:33787-1728324000-1728327600@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Bristol group meeting: October
DESCRIPTION:Medact Bristol is interested and engaged in local\, national and international issues that affect public health. Since its creation\, Medact Bristol has focused its efforts on campaigns on climate\, environment and sustainability\, divestment\, and migrant access to healthcare. The group’s current focus is supporting  Reclaim our Buses\, a campaign in Bristol to bring buses back into public control. New members are welcome.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-bristol-october/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241003T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240821T105649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T105713Z
UID:33781-1727983800-1727987400@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Leeds group meeting: October
DESCRIPTION:The Leeds group come together monthly for meetings on the 6th of the month. Meetings are online mostly and sometimes in person! Medact Leeds are organising locally for climate and health justice as part of the Health for a Green New Deal network\, and also taking action to end the hostile environment\, campaigning for Patients Not Passports. All are welcome. Please sign up to the mailing list to join the group.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-leeds-october/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241002T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241002T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240920T085705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T090117Z
UID:34294-1727895600-1727899200@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Economic Justice National Organising Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The Medact Economic Justice & Health group meets 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. \n\n\n\nThe main focus of this meeting will be to discuss the strategy of our housing and health lobbying and advocacy campaign focusing on Royal Colleges. We will also provide updates on our work as part of the Homes for Us alliance. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions please contact jordilopezbotey@medact.org!
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/economic-justice-national-organising-group-meeting-oct-2024/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240924T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240924T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240801T112313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T142728Z
UID:33878-1727200800-1727209800@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:AGM 2024 & Panel Discussion - Building solidarity movements and demanding health justice amid poly-crisis
DESCRIPTION:The AGM is our yearly opportunity to come together and explore the overall running of Medact and to bring together members old and new from the UK and beyond. In addition to essential governance matters\, we’re excited this year to be hosting a panel discisson:  \n\n\n\n\nPanel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe panel discussion will be followed by our AGM\, where you’ll hear about successes and reflections from the last year of work across the Medact movement\, an update on our organisational finances\, and have a chance to vote in Trustee elections. \n\n\n\nEveryone is welcome to join the meeting\, but you must be a member to vote. If you would like to get involved in running Medact\, why not join as a member today? \n\n\n\nSubmitting motions\n\n\n\nThe deadline for motion submissions has passed. \n\n\n\nElection of Trustees \n\n\n\nThe deadline for Trustee applications has passed. \n\n\n\nLogistics\n\n\n\nWe are hosting this year’s AGM online via Zoom. Register to let us know you are coming below\, and provide any access requirements you may have. We will share the agenda as soon as it is finalised. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker bios\n\n\n\nChairs: \n\n\n\nAnuj Kapilashrami is an interdisciplinary social scientist\, academic activist\, and Professor in Global Health Policy and Equity in the School of Health & Social Care\, and chair of Medact’s Board. Her current work focuses on advancing an intersectional approach to examining health inequalities and structural determinants of health and well-being. She has long been involved in People’s Health Movement (PHM) in India and the UK\, formerly as Chair of PHM Scotland where she led the first public hearing on social determination of mental health and the development of people’s health manifesto for Scotland.  \n\n\n\nKamran Abbasi is a doctor\, journalist\, editor and broadcaster. Following five years in hospital medicine\, working in various medical specialties such as psychiatry and cardiology\, he moved into senior editorial roles at the British Medical Journal from 1997 to 2005. He returned to The BMJ in his role as executive editor for content\, leading the journal’s strategic growth internationally\, digitally\, and in print. Kamran was made Editor in chief of the BMJ in December 2021. \n\n\n\nPanelists: \n\n\n\nGuppi Bola is a senior economic strategist\, previous Interim-Director of Medact and formerly Chair of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants. In 2020 she explored themes of planetary dysregulation\, illness and oppression\, and their intersections with the economy for Common Wealth using her 15 years of experience in climate and public health organising. More recently\, she has spent the past five years establishing Decolonising Economics\, alongside her partner in crime Noni Makuyana. \n\n\n\nRhiannon Mihranian is doctor\, organiser\, and researcher focused on health justice as a tool for radical systems change. Her work focuses on environmental justice\, anti-colonialism\, and re-imagining health systems. \n\n\n\nMartin Drewry is CEO of Health Poverty Action (HPA) – an international NGO part of the People’s Health Movement\, and ally of Medact. HPA works in 15 countries\, with 400 staff mostly from the marginalised communities they serve. A background in Peace Studies\, Martin played key roles in several large coalition campaigns. \n\n\n\nDr. Inga Blum is a neurologist from Hamburg\, Germany currently specializing in family medicine. She joined IPPNW as a medical student with an interest in global health and justice and got involved in ICAN at its founding at the IPPNW World Congress in Helsinki in 2006. In her view the abolition of nuclear weapons is not only an urgent necessity because of the acute danger nuclear weapons pose for global survival but likewise a great chance to shift international security policies from being based on the threat of mutual annihilation to a human security system based on cooperation. Having witnessed the constant failure of disarmament conferences as a member of IPPNW Delegations she initiated a study on attitudes towards nuclear weapons among political decision-makers at the University of Hamburg. She has conducted numerous workshops and delivered speeches with a special focus on motivating the next generation to get active for nuclear disarmament and is active in promoting the Ban Treaty in Germany. She served on the board of the German section of IPPNW from 2013 to 2021 and has started the annual IPPNW Summer Camp to protest against the stationing of NATO nuclear weapons in Büchel\, Rhineland-Palatinate.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-agm-2024/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240510T135232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T144639Z
UID:33362-1726682400-1726687800@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Securitisation of Health group meeting: September
DESCRIPTION:What 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\nThis event will be held online on Zoom.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/sohg-meeting-sept/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240916T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240916T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240510T112742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240827T144632Z
UID:33350-1726509600-1726515000@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Nuclear Weapons Group September 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
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/nwg-sept-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240912T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240912T194500
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240801T140504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240823T122050Z
UID:33913-1726165800-1726170300@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Join the fight for Healthy Homes: New joiners meeting
DESCRIPTION:The so-called housing crisis makes the spaces in which we live damp\, mouldy\, insecure and impossible to afford. The housing system prevents vast numbers of families from simply feeling at home\, and calling the place they live a place of safety. Austerity and the commodification of housing has turned the domestic into a site of illness\, violence\, precarity\, insecurity\, and in some cases death.  \n\n\n\nWe need urgent political action to respond to the public health crisis that health workers are witnessing. This requires rethinking housing beyond commodification and taking action to reclaim it as a public health asset. We need to reclaim housing for health. \n\n\n\nIt will take a movement\, with tenants\, health workers and all sectors of society working together to shift the narrative and end the public health crisis in housing. Join us to get involved with the fight for healthy homes! \n\n\n\n In this meeting you’ll: \n\n\n\n\nFind out about the group and our Housing and Health campaign\n\n\n\nUnderstand what we understand by economic and health inequality\,\n\n\n\nHear about ongoing projects and campaigns\,\n\n\n\nLearn how we can fight for housing justice\n\n\n\nHear from some of the people working in our different campaign areas\, and\n\n\n\nExplore the ways you can get involved
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/ej-new-joiners/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240911T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240911T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240821T103550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T103554Z
UID:33630-1726084800-1726088400@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact North East group meeting: September
DESCRIPTION:Medact North East are a collective of health workers and students based across the North East\, from Northumberland to Newcastle to Middlesbrough! \nCurrently we are working on a climate justice campaign\, supporting a grassroots group to win the fight against a large waste incinerator on Teesside\, which would pollute the air of the local community as well as accelerating the climate crisis.  \nWe are also exploring campaigns around migrant health justice issues through our new ‘Migrant Health’ group.  This includes supporting No to Hassockfield which is fighting to shut down a women’s detention centre in County Durham.     \nThe group meets monthly. 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. For more information or to join a meeting in-person\, get in touch at northeast@medact.org. or subscribe below.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-north-east-september/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240910T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240910T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240821T101940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240902T135924Z
UID:33626-1725993000-1725996600@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Glasgow group meeting: September
DESCRIPTION:Medact Glasgow is a collective of healthcare workers\, students and people from other related social disciplines. We organise around\, learn about and share information on campaigns related to health justice. \n\n\n\nOur current focus is on fighting fuel poverty. We are working alongside Fuel Poverty Action\, who organise for affordable and sustainable energy and against the inadequate living conditions which are making people sick. \n\n\n\nOur main meeting is in person (or you can join on Zoom) on the second Tuesday of each month – all are welcome! Please get in touch with us on glasgow@medact.org if you want to join our meetings or find out more\, or subscribe to the mailing list:
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-glasgow-september/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240905T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240905T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240821T101731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T101734Z
UID:33616-1725564600-1725568200@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Leeds group meeting: September
DESCRIPTION:The Leeds group come together monthly for meetings on the 6th of the month. Meetings are online mostly and sometimes in person! Medact Leeds are organising locally for climate and health justice as part of the Health for a Green New Deal network\, and also taking action to end the hostile environment\, campaigning for Patients Not Passports. All are welcome. Please sign up to the mailing list to join the group.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-leeds-september/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240903T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240903T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240702T113400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240823T122022Z
UID:33722-1725388200-1725391800@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Climate & Health: Energy Justice campaign New Joiners meeting
DESCRIPTION:Medact’s Climate & Health Group is organising to improve policies to end the crisis of cold & damp homes and fuel poverty\, and ensure our homes are not sites of illness. \n\n\n\nThis includes working alongside local groups to support local campaigns\, as well as demanding policy change on a national level for better support for quality homes for all\, energy justice & a rapid just transition away from fossil fuels.  \n\n\n\nThe New Joiners meeting is a space to meet other Medact members and health workers interested in the intersections of climate\, housing and energy justice. You have the opportunity to hear about: \n\n\n\n\nMedact’s structure\, mission and goals\n\n\n\nHistory and function of the group\n\n\n\nAn overview of how we understand the roots causes of cold & damp homes & possible solutions\n\n\n\nCurrent campaign and organising work\n\n\n\nHow to get involved!\n\n\n\n\nIf you’re looking for ways to contribute to affect meaningful change to one of the key climate justice issues in the UK. this is a great way to do it. You don’t have to be a regular member or a health worker to get involved—everyone is welcome \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions about attending\, drop Maria\, Climate Campaign lead\, an email at mariacarvalho@medact.org 
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/climate-health-new-joiners-sept/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240902T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240902T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240606T113148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T113150Z
UID:33497-1725300000-1725303600@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Bristol group meeting: September
DESCRIPTION:Medact Bristol is interested and engaged in local\, national and international issues that affect public health. Since its creation\, Medact Bristol has focused its efforts on campaigns on climate\, environment and sustainability\, divestment\, and migrant access to healthcare. The group’s current focus is supporting  Reclaim our Buses\, a campaign in Bristol to bring buses back into public control. New members are welcome.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/bristol-group-meeting-september/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240821T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240821T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240510T134918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240723T143504Z
UID:33361-1724263200-1724268600@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Securitisation of Health group meeting: August
DESCRIPTION:What 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\nThis event will be held online on Zoom.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/sohg-meeting-aug/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240814T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240814T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240606T113536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T165457Z
UID:33416-1723665600-1723669200@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact North East group meeting: August
DESCRIPTION:Medact North East are a collective of health workers and students based across the North East\, from Northumberland to Newcastle to Middlesbrough! \n\n\n\nCurrently we are working on a climate justice campaign\, supporting a grassroots group to win the fight against a large waste incinerator on Teesside\, which would pollute the air of the local community as well as accelerating the climate crisis.  \n\n\n\nWe are also exploring campaigns around migrant health justice issues through our new ‘Migrant Health’ group.  This includes supporting No to Hassockfield which is fighting to shut down a women’s detention centre in County Durham.     \n\n\n\nThe group meets monthly. 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. For more information or to join a meeting in-person\, get in touch at northeast@medact.org. To attend online\, register to receive the Zoom link.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/north-east-group-august/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240813T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240813T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240606T115437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T115440Z
UID:33410-1723573800-1723577400@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Glasgow group meeting: August
DESCRIPTION:Medact Glasgow is a collective of healthcare workers\, students and people from other related social disciplines. We organise around\, learn about and share information on campaigns related to health justice. \n\n\n\nOur current focus is on fighting fuel poverty. We are working alongside Fuel Poverty Action\, who organise for affordable and sustainable energy and against the inadequate living conditions which are making people sick. \n\n\n\nOur main meeting is in person (or you can join on Zoom) on the second Tuesday of each month – all are welcome! Please get in touch with us on glasgow@medact.org if you want to join our meetings or find out more\, or subscribe to the mailing list:
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/glasgow-meeting-august/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240812T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240812T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240510T101612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T152701Z
UID:33349-1723485600-1723491000@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Nuclear Weapons Group August 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
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/nwg-aug-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240805T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240805T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240606T113102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T113106Z
UID:33329-1722880800-1722884400@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Bristol group meeting: August
DESCRIPTION:Medact Bristol is interested and engaged in local\, national and international issues that affect public health. Since its creation\, Medact Bristol has focused its efforts on campaigns on climate\, environment and sustainability\, divestment\, and migrant access to healthcare. The group’s current focus is supporting  Reclaim our Buses\, a campaign in Bristol to bring buses back into public control. New members are welcome.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/bristol-group-meeting-august/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240606T115246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T115249Z
UID:33299-1722540600-1722544200@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Leeds group meeting: August
DESCRIPTION:The Leeds group come together monthly for meetings on the 6th of the month. Meetings are online mostly and sometimes in person! Medact Leeds are organising locally for climate and health justice as part of the Health for a Green New Deal network\, and also taking action to end the hostile environment\, campaigning for Patients Not Passports. All are welcome. Please sign up to the mailing list to join the group.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/leeds-meeting-august/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T184500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240501T095605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T134747Z
UID:33270-1721933100-1721939400@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:London Housing & Health meeting
DESCRIPTION:Medact’s Housing & Health Group is organising to improve policies for better access to secure and sustainable housing. \n\n\n\nThis 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\nIn this meeting\, you will be hearing from the members involved in our work\, get updates on our local organising\, and help us develop the next steps and identify potential campaigns in other boroughs. \n\n\n\nYou don’t have to be a regular member of the Economic Justice &Health group or a health worker to get involved – everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nSign up to the Medact London email list to hear about all Housing & Health London Meetings! If you’re unable to attend meetings but keen to get involved or develop a local campaign\, you can contact Jordi:  jordilopezbotey@medact.org. \n\n\n\nRegister to attend!\n\n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\nYou can read more in our booklet\, The Public Health Case for Secure Housing.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/london-housing-health-meeting-3/
LOCATION:Medact\, Pelican House\, 144 Cambridge Heath Road\, London\, E1 5QJ
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240606T114303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240725T111936Z
UID:33527-1721932200-1721937600@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Homes for Health: The Public Health Case for Social Homes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the second of our series of online gatherings to discuss together how health workers can join the fight for housing and health justice! \n\n\n\nThe so-called housing crisis makes the spaces in which we live damp\, mouldy\, insecure and impossible to afford. The housing system prevents vast numbers of families from simply feeling at home\, and calling the place they live a place of safety. Austerity and the commodification of housing has turned the domestic into a site of illness\, violence\, precarity\, insecurity\, and in some cases death.  \n\n\n\nWe need urgent political action to respond to the public health crisis that health workers are witnessing. This requires rethinking housing beyond commodification and taking action to reclaim it as a public health asset. We need to reclaim housing for health. \n\n\n\nIt will take a movement\, with tenants\, health workers and all sectors of society working together to shift the narrative and end the public health crisis in housing. Join us to get involved with the fight for healthy homes! \n\n\n\nIn this second online gathering\, we will hear from speakers about how health workers are joining the fight for housing justice and how tenants and communities across the country are building power to force change. \n\n\n\n\nMedact members Dr Abi Secker\, Dr Amaran Uthayakumar-Cumarasamy and Dr Isobel Braithwaite\n\n\n\nAdam Gabsi – chair of Inclusion London and Harrow Association of Disabled people. Adam is passionate about Disabled people receiving the justice they deserve and wants to use his position to the benefit of all Disabled people\, London-wide and beyond.\n\n\n\nLaura Vicinanza – leads Inclusion London’s strategic engagement with the Greater London Authority (GLA) and supports DDPOs with influencing local and national government policies.\n\n\n\nGreater Manchester Tenants Union – a democratic\, member-led union\, working across the 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester. They organise and represent members in the private and social rented sector and fight for safe\, secure and affordable housing for everyone\n\n\n\nDr Abi O’Connor (New Economics Foundation) – an urban sociologist whose expertise centres on understanding the relationship between urban governance\, local politics and the (re)structuring of place\, specifically focusing on the impact of this on communities and areas impacted by regional inequality. She has a keen interest in democratising knowledge through grassroots movements.\n\n\n\n\nBased on London? Join us for an in-person watch party at the Medact office in Pelican House\, Bethnal Green! Just let us know you’re joining in person in the form below! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHomes should be a place of comfort\, health and security. Instead\, across the UK\, homes have become sites of illness. They are rendered cold and damp by poor insulation and sky-high energy prices. They are insecure due to unaffordable rents\, evictions\, and poor-quality housing.  \n\n\n\nCold\, unaffordable and insecure homes are no accident. They are the symptoms of a political system that produces mass illness and deepens inequalities in both health and wealth.  The root causes are political—and this means the solutions are too. \n\n\n\nAt these online gatherings\, together we will gain the tools we need to take action as health workers. Join the fight to win healthy homes for all\, as part of the wider struggles for climate\, housing and economic justice.  \n\n\n\nIn the run up to the general election & beyond we intend to get organised\, fight for healthy homes\, and win. 
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/healthy-homes-gathering-social-housing/
CATEGORIES:Launches,Talks & Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240715T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240715T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240510T090600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T152653Z
UID:33218-1721066400-1721071800@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Nuclear Weapons Group July 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
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/nwg-july-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240715T000000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T150927
CREATED:20240604T105616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T105621Z
UID:33492-1721001600-1721951999@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Lakenheath Peace Camp
DESCRIPTION:Lakenheath Alliance for Peace (LAP) is holding its major summer event\, the Lakenheath Peace Camp\, at USAF Lakenheath on Monday 15th July. The camp will continue until 25th July. There will be inside accommodation as well as camping nearby and a continuous presence at the base throughout.  \n\n\n\nTo take part\, please contact LAP\, not Medact\, using the link below. \n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Lakenheath Peace Camp\n\n\n\n\nAbout RAF Lakenheath\n\n\n\nRAF Lakenheath is home to the 48th Fighter Wing.  The base is used by F-15E and 54 F-35A fighter/bombers.  \n\n\n\nAlthough the USAF can “neither confirm nor deny” the presence of nuclear weapons at RAF Lakenheath it is suspected that nuclear weapons were based there\, possibly with the B-29 in the 1950s. Lakenheath has won a ‘nuclear safety award’ and in 2003 was part of a exercise Dimming Sun which simulated a USAF plane crashing with nuclear weapons on board. \n\n\n\nIt is believed that 110 B61 nuclear weapons were deployed at Lakenheath. However\, these weapons were withdrawn by 2008. \n\n\n\nAlthough there is no evidence that nuclear weapons are being moved to Lakenheath in the near future\, facilities are being built to house them. The F-35A has been flight tested with the B61-12 thermonuclear bomb. \n\n\n\nLakenheath has been involved in a wide range of operations and prides itself as being to “get out the door”. After the Hamas attacks on the 7th October 2023\, F-15Es from the Lakenheath landed at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan on the 13 October 2023 to bolster US presence in the region. Read more.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/lakenheath-peace-camp/
LOCATION:RAF Lakenheath\, Brandon Road\, Lakenheath\, Suffolk\, IP27 9PS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:External
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