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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/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240814T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240814T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240715T165457Z
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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/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240813T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240813T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240606T115437Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T115440Z
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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/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240812T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240812T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240510T101612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T152701Z
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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/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240805T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240805T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240606T113102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T113106Z
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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/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240801T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240606T115246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T115249Z
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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/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T184500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240624T134747Z
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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:20260404T191841
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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/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Launches,Talks & Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240715T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240715T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
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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/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240725T235959
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240604T105616Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240604T105621Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240710T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240710T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T101940Z
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SUMMARY:Medact North East group meeting: July
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-meeting-july/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240710T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240710T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240625T100356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240710T071142Z
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SUMMARY:Unhealthy Liaisons - NHS Collaboration with Counter Terror Policing
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we launch a new briefing: ‘Unhealthy Liaisons: NHS Collaboration with the Counter Terrorism Clinical Consultancy Service (CTCSS)’\, written by Professor Charlotte Heath-Kelly.  \n\n\n\nCT CCS is an NHS–police mental health team that evolved from the Vulnerability Support Hubs\, which were exposed in the 2021 Medact report Racism\, mental health and pre-crime policing. It raises serious concerns about the nature of medical cooperation with Counter Terrorism Policing. \n\n\n\nWe will reveal details about this worrying service\, and be joined by a panel discussion with expert speakers on: the implications of this collaboration\, harms of the securitisation of health\, co-optation of health workers into counter-terror policing\, and the encroachment of counter-terror policing in healthcare and public sector spaces. \n\n\n\nWe will also discuss how we can go about challenging these practices in the current political context\, and as part of Medact’s work campaigning to end Prevent Duty in the NHS.  \n\n\n\nPanelists\n\n\n\nDr Charlotte Heath-Kelly is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She is currently completing a 5 year study\, funded by the European Commission\, investigating the different Prevention of Violent Extremism policies used by European nations. The focus is on the integration of healthcare professionals and pre-crime logics\, or their absence\, in European counterterrorism. Professor Heath-Kelly has published five books with Manchester University Press & Routledge\, and more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in international academic journals. \n\n\n\nDr Layla Aitlhadj is the Director and Senior caseworker at Prevent Watch\, an NGO that supports individuals who have been impacted by the Prevent duty. She has been directly involved with 300 of the 700+ cases that have been documented by Prevent Watch to date. She co-authored the People’s Review of Prevent and the Response to Shawcross report with Prof John Holmwood and has contributed to a number of articles\, UN submissions and reports as an expert in Prevent. \n\n\n\nDr Tarek Younis is the Racial Justice Researcher at Healing Justice London and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex University. He researches and writes on Islamophobia\, racism in mental health and the politics of psychology. He teaches on the impact of culture\, religion\, globalisation\, and security policies on mental health. As a registered clinical psychologist\, he primarily attends to experiences of racism\, Islamophobia\, and state violence in his private practice. His book is called The Muslim\, State and Mind: Psychology in Times of Islamophobia. \n\n\n\nNina Navid is the Racial Justice Campaigner at Amnesty International UK\, focusing on counter-terrorism\, policing and supporting activists to take anti-racist action. She has previously worked in Amnesty’s Government and Political Relations team\, and as a Crisis & Tactical Campaigner. Prior to working at Amnesty\, she worked for the Shadow Minister for Women & Equalities. \n\n\n\nJim Killock is Executive Director at Open Rights Group. Since joining Open Rights Group in January 2009\, Jim has led campaigns against three strikes and the Digital Economy Act\, the company Phorm and its plans to snoop on UK users\, and against pervasive government Internet surveillance. He is working on data protection and privacy issues\, as well as helping ORG to grow in size and breadth. In February 2024\, ORG released a new report\, Prevent and the Pre-Crime State: How unaccountable data sharing is harming a generation. \n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\nThis is a hybrid event\, so please indicate when registering whether you wish to attend online via Zoom or in-person at a venue in Shoreditch\, East London. Deadline for in-person registration is July 8th. The venue is accessible and full details will be provided on registration.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/briefing-launch-unhealthy-liaisons/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Launches
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240709T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240709T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240606T112646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T112649Z
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SUMMARY:Medact Glasgow group meeting: July
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-july/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240708T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240708T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240510T134503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T134657Z
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SUMMARY:Securitisation of Health group meeting: July
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-july/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240704T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240704T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240606T115155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T115159Z
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SUMMARY:Medact Leeds group meeting: July
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-group-july/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240703T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240703T194500
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240523T161550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240627T151004Z
UID:33428-1720031400-1720035900@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:From Fuel Poverty to the Just Transition: How Health Workers Can Join the Fight to Win
DESCRIPTION:Our homes are making us sick\, shortening lives and stealing children’s futures. Join us this July for two online gatherings\, where we will learn about how and why our homes have become sites of illness\, and the political solutions towards reclaiming the relationship between homes and health. \n\n\n\nMillions of people in the UK live in homes that are cold\, damp\, and mouldy. We can’t afford our energy bills\, our houses are poorly insulated\, and our government continues to rely on dirty\, expensive fossil fuels. While people get sick\, energy and fossil fuel companies are raking in record profits.  \n\n\n\nCold and damp homes cost thousands of lives every year. This is the direct result of political choices—putting profit for shareholders and landlords above everyone’s right to live in a safe\, warm home.  \n\n\n\nWe know the solutions. As our Public Health Case for a Green New Deal stated loud and clear: we need quality homes for all\, fair access to energy\, and a rapid just transition to cheap\, renewable energy.  \n\n\n\nAt this online gathering\, we’ll hear from speakers on how fossil fuels are powering the crisis of cold and damp homes\, how mass insulation of homes and reform of our energy system is central to a just transition\, and how organising in solidarity with tenants and communities builds power to force change.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll share the tools that you need to learn\, pressure decision makers\, and build the health voice alongside communities—fighting to win healthy homes for all.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers at the event will include: \n\n\n\n\nSimon from the End Fuel Poverty Coalition & Warm This Winter campaign—EFPC is a broad group of anti-poverty\, environmental\, health and housing charities\, trade unions and campaigners\n\n\n\nStuart Bretherton from Fuel Poverty Action—which campaigns to protect people from fuel poverty. We challenge rip-off energy companies and unfair policies that leave people to endure cold homes. We take action for warm\, well-insulated homes and clean and affordable energy\, under the control of people and communities\, not private companies\n\n\n\nRepresentative from Living Rent—based in Scotland\, Living Rent is a mass-membership organisation of low-middle income renters\, working and fighting together to win concrete improvements to our daily lives and put political and economic power back where it belongs\n\n\n\nScott McAulay from Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) and Anthropocene Architecture School\n\n\n\nDr Isobel Braithwaite\, Medact member  Public Health Doctor—currently doing research on Housing and Health\, Isobel has worked as a medical doctor and on public health issues including climate change and extreme weather\, air pollution and mental health\n\n\n\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-gathering1/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Launches,Talks & Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240701T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240701T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240606T112954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T112956Z
UID:32860-1719856800-1719860400@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Bristol group meeting: July
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-july/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240627T184500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240627T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240501T095525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T115733Z
UID:33268-1719513900-1719520200@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-2/
LOCATION:Medact\, Pelican House\, 144 Cambridge Heath Road\, London\, E1 5QJ
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240618T200000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240513T153606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240520T181553Z
UID:33331-1718735400-1718740800@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Movement Assembly
DESCRIPTION:Movement Assemblies (formerly “Group Check-in”) are a space for people active in Medact local or issue groups to connect\, to share collective learning from our organising—the challenges and successes and how we can support each other to win in our struggle for health justice.  \n\n\n\nThis Assembly will take place ONLINE on Zoom. The first part of the assembly will focus on sharing updates and learnings from across the Medact network. We will hear national campaign updates from: \n\n\n\n\nPatients Not Passports\n\n\n\nPeace and Security\n\n\n\nClimate and Health\n\n\n\nEconomic Justice\n\n\n\n\nWe will then share updates from across local Medact groups—all are welcome! Each group being represented will spend two minutes sharing a few highlights and any challenges you’ve had over the last few months\, and any plans you have coming up. \n\n\n\nIn the second half of the assembly\, we will have a skill-share on organising. We’ll be exploring an example together; how we can apply these learnings in our contexts; and the skills\, knowledge and resources we need to put them into practice.  \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions or would like to chat through anything\, do get in touch with Ben Eder:  beneder@medact.org
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/movement-assembly/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240617T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240617T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240402T143632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T152656Z
UID:32734-1718647200-1718652600@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Nuclear Weapons Group meeting: June
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-meeting-june/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240611T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240611T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240606T112634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240606T112638Z
UID:32718-1718130600-1718134200@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Glasgow group meeting: June
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-june/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240601T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240601T160000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240325T153608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T114759Z
UID:32670-1717237800-1717257600@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Securitisation of Health group: strategy day & social
DESCRIPTION:The Securitisation of Health group is meeting to prepare campaign strategy and actions for the next twelve months of continued resistance to the Prevent Duty in the NHS. We’ll be building a clear strategy for the coming year\, and explore actions and events that will form milestones for this work. We’ll also have a social afterwards! This is an in-person event\, so for those of you who are unable to join in-person\, please indicate in this form your interest in joining online sessions at a later date. \n\n\n\n\nRegister your interest\n\n\n\n\nAbout the group: \n\n\n\nThrough research and campaigns\, the Securitisation of Health Group 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\nIf you have any questions or concerns about attending\, please email our Campaign Lead Sarah Lasoye at sarahlasoye@medact.org.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/sohg-strategy-day/
LOCATION:Pelican House\, 144 Cambridge Heath Road\, London\, London\, E1 5QJ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Group,Workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240402T140907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T130120Z
UID:32668-1717702200-1717705800@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Leeds group meeting: June
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-group-meeting-june/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240606T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240402T140646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T130120Z
UID:32666-1717700400-1717705800@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Sheffield group meeting: June
DESCRIPTION:The Sheffield group come together monthly\, alternating between the first Tuesday or Thursday of the month. Meetings are hybrid. Medact Sheffield are organising locally on the Patients Not Passports campaign\, seeking to end the Hostile Environment in the NHS. The group are also organising for climate and health justice as part of the Health for a Green New Deal network. All are welcome. Please sign up to the mailing list to join the group and get the details for the next meeting.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/sheffield-group-meeting-june/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240605T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240605T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240402T141645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T130120Z
UID:32662-1717610400-1717615800@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Securitisation of Health group meeting: June
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-of-health-group-meeting-june/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240603T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240603T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240402T135549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T130121Z
UID:32554-1717437600-1717441200@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact Bristol June group meeting
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. Join the email list to get involved.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/bristol-group-meeting-june/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T184500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240530T203000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191841
CREATED:20240501T095521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T115723Z
UID:33266-1717094700-1717101000@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/
LOCATION:Medact\, Pelican House\, 144 Cambridge Heath Road\, London\, E1 5QJ
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240520T193000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191842
CREATED:20240311T130459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T153850Z
UID:32524-1716228000-1716233400@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Nuclear Weapons Group May 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/nuclear-weapons-group-may-meeting/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240515T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240515T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191842
CREATED:20240402T141224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T141431Z
UID:32518-1715803200-1715806800@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Medact North East group meeting: May
DESCRIPTION:Medact North East is an active local group based around Newcastle\, Sunderland\, Tynemouth and across the North East. \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. The North East group are currently involved in a campaign against waste incinerators in local communities. For more information or to join a meeting in-person\, get in touch at northeast@medact.org.  \n\n\n\nTo attend online\, register to receive the Zoom link!
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/north-east-group-meeting-may/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240509T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240509T210000
DTSTAMP:20260404T191842
CREATED:20240402T102318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T102323Z
UID:32803-1715283000-1715288400@www.medact.org
SUMMARY:Concert for Peace: Music by Les Six 
DESCRIPTION:Eminent pianist Julian Jacobson is joined by some of the country’s finest wind players at Lauderdale House\, in a concert of French music by the group of composers known as ‘Les Six’.\n\n\n\nThis title was coined in 1920 by the critic Henri Collet\, in recognition of their shared aim of writing music that showed no influence of earlier musical giants like Wagner or Debussy. Even so\, each of the six possessed strong individuality\, and they often pursued very different paths.   \n\n\n\nSince 1983\, Musicians for Peace (formerly named Musicians Against Nuclear Arms) have been organising events which raise funds for the peace movement. The famous guitarist John Williams OBE is MPD’s President\, and many leading figures from different areas of music make up the list of Patrons. \n\n\n\nThe programme encompasses a huge range of styles\, and includes works for different combinations of instruments\, ending with Poulenc’s ebullient Sextet. Along the way\, we will hear solos for several instruments; duos including Poulenc’s Élégie for horn and piano\, written in memory of Denis Brain\, and providing a darker\, more serious foil to the generally lighter style of the other works; a trio by Louis Durey – one of the lesser known names – and Milhaud’s popular wind quintet La cheminée du roi René\, which evokes the atmosphere of the court of René 1 in the 15th century. \n\n\n\n\nBuy tickets
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/mpd-concert-for-peace/
LOCATION:London
CATEGORIES:External
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ORGANIZER;CN="Musicians for Peace & Disarmament":MAILTO:info.mpdconcerts@gmail.com
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