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SUMMARY:Medact Scotland: Spring Planning Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Now that spring is springing\, Medact Scotland will be meeting to discuss their ideas and plans for the next few months. \nItems on the agenda include ICAN and the ICAN Cities Appeal\, Don’t Bank on the Bomb (DBOTB)\, the COP26 coalition\, Green General Practice and the Scottish Health Green New Deal group. \nTo join the meeting or get involved in the group\, please email Lesley: scotland@medact.org
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/medact-scotland-spring-planning-meeting/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210302T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210302T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T164614
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SUMMARY:Migrant Solidarity Group: Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Our Migrant Solidarity Group will be meeting on Tuesday 2nd March at 6:30pm – 8:00pm. \nTo find out how to join the online meeting please email migrantsolidarity@medact.org
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/migrant-solidarity-group-meeting-8/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210311T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210311T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T164614
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Climate & Health Group - March Meeting
DESCRIPTION:We’re postponing the group meeting that was planned for tonight. Sorry for the late notice! Provisionally the new date is 22nd March but we will email to confirm ASAP.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/climate-health-group-march-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Group,Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210311T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210311T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T164614
CREATED:20210303T104219Z
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SUMMARY:Patients Not Passports Campaign Launch Greater Manchester
DESCRIPTION:We’re launching the Patients Not Passports campaign in Greater Manchester on Thursday 11th March at 7.00pm – 8.30pm. \nRegister your place
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/patients-not-passports-campaign-launch-greater-manchester/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210312T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210312T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T164614
CREATED:20210223T175150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210310T112731Z
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SUMMARY:IPPNW Europe Meeting
DESCRIPTION:International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War\nMedact is part of an international network IPPNW and this meeting is an opportunity to find out about their plans for the year. \nIf you would like joining details of the meeting please email benjaminwalpole@medact.org \nPlease note the 5-7pm timings previously listed here was CET ─ the meeting is 4-6pm UK time.
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/ippnw-europe-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210315T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210315T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T164614
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SUMMARY:Medact Race & Health Justice: Second Reading Group - “What’s in a name?”
DESCRIPTION:For our next reading group event we will explore and critique a short paper examining categorisations used to refer to minority groups\, alongside the roots and potential limitations of these terms. Please find the paper details below: \n\n\n\nSelvarajah S\, Deivanayagam TA\, Lasco G\, et al Categorisation and Minoritisation BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e004508. Accessible via this link: https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/12/e004508\n\n\n\nPlease consider the following questions when reading the article: \n\n\n\n\nWhat are the aims and interests of the authors for suggesting a change to the term BAME/BIPOC?\n\n\n\nHow does the term ‘minoritised’ change the way we think about race and racism?\n\n\n\nWhat are the consequences of changing terms like BAME/BIPOC? What different actions can result from different terms such as minoritised\, BAME and BIPOC?\n\n\n\n\nIn line with our group vision we see the reading group as a space where we can unlearn and challenge internalised racism\, expand our anti-racist skills\, encourage curiosity and openness\, and to reflect on bringing this learning into our working and campaigning lives. \n\n\n\nPracticalities and accessibility:\n\n\n\n\nWe will circulate our group ground rules when you sign up\, and ask that you only join us if you are happy to commit to these principles.\n\n\n\nPlease read the article ahead of the reading group. If you would like an audio version\, or to read it collectively with others before the group\, please email us.\n\n\n\nWe expect most attendees will be people working in healthcare\, but the group is open to all.\n\n\n\nThe reading group will be on Zoom – we will run through logistics at the start of the meeting\, but if you are new to zoom there is a user guide here. The zoom application will download automatically when you click on a meeting link for the first time.\n\n\n\nWe can provide captioning and/or BSL interpreting\, please email us\n\n\n\nYou are welcome to have your camera on or off\, and to eat during the session\, but please do come willing to contribute to the discussion!\n\n\n\nWe will have a scheduled break halfway through.\n\n\n\nWe will cap numbers in order to have a small and active discussion.\n\n\n\nPlease let us know if there is anything else we can do to support you to attend.\n\n\n\n\nIf you have any queries prior to the event please feel free to email us: racehealthjustice@medact.org \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to join this session\, please do join our mailing list to hear about future events and how to get involved. \n\n\n\nThis event is now full! If you’re interested in joining a future session please subscribe to the group mailing list below and look out for details
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/race-health-justice-march-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Group,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210316T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210316T203000
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SUMMARY:Economic Justice & Health Group ─ March Big Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us to: \n\n\n\n\nGet a quick refresher on our Health vs Wealth? UK economic policy and public health during COVID-19 briefing\n\n\n\nFind out more from the people behind the campaign for Fair Furlough for Cleaners & Facility workers and those calling for a raise of legacy benefits in order to match the £20 increase of Universal Credit\n\n\n\nHear from a few of the members involved in the Economic Justice & Health Group\n\n\n\nFind out ways you get involved with the work of the Economic Justice & Health Group\n\n\n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/economic-justice-health-group-march-big-meeting/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210318T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210318T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T164614
CREATED:20210317T092756Z
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SUMMARY:Patients Not Passports Greater Manchester: Taking Action to End the Hostile Environment
DESCRIPTION:This event is a great opportunity for health workers from the Greater Manchester area who would like to get involved in the Patients Not Passports campaign. \nThere will be lots of time for ideas and discussion; to find out about what we’ve done so far and who’s involved; and plan our next steps. We’ll think through campaign tactics and strategy\, run sessions on action planning and power mapping\, and develop a winning strategy for the campaign. \nRegister your place
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/patients-not-passports-greater-manchester-taking-action-to-end-the-hostile-environment/
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210322T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210322T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T164614
CREATED:20210217T093648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T093648Z
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SUMMARY:Banning the Bomb\, Smashing the Patriarchy: An Evening with Ray Acheson
DESCRIPTION:Our friends at Scottish CND are hosting an evening of conversation and readings with nuclear disarmament activist\, Ray Acheson\, to celebrate the release of their new book: “Banning the Bomb\, Smashing the Patriarchy”. \nOn 22 January 2021\, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons came into force. In the words of ICAN’s first staff member\, Felicity Ruby\, in her book “Acheson tells the story of seven decades of activism transforming an impossible dream into international law.” \nThe book offers a look inside the antinuclear movement and the recent successful campaign to ban the bomb — from scrappy organising to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 and achieving a landmark UN Treaty banning nuclear weapons. \nRegister your place now
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/banning-the-bomb-smashing-the-patriarchy-an-evening-with-ray-acheson/
CATEGORIES:External,Meetings
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210324
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SUMMARY:Online Storytelling Action for Green Jobs
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 23rd March\, we’re teaming up with Green New Deal UK to run an online storytelling action\, calling on MPs to support the creation of secure\, well-paid green jobs as part of a post-COVID recovery. \n\n\n\nWhy ‘green jobs for all’?\n\n\n\nAs many as 1.9m jobs are at risk of being lost permanently as a result of the impacts of the pandemic. It is vital that the Government now intervenes to invest in job creation\, but if our recovery only increases emissions\, we will only pivot from one crisis to another: Climate Change. \n\n\n\nCreating new\, secure\, well-paid green jobs has to be a priority if we are to build a healthy and sustainable recovery post-COVID. Research by Green New Deal UK shows that\, with the right investment\, the Government could create as many as 1.2m green jobs over the next two years alone. \n\n\n\nGreen jobs aren’t just what we might traditionally expect: people in hard-hats building wind turbines. They’re also jobs in vital\, low-carbon\, sectors such as education and healthcare. By focusing on such key industries\, a green recovery can help us tackle staff-shortages in the NHS at the same time as fighting the climate crisis! \n\n\n\nHow do I take part in the storytelling action?\n\n\n\nAll you need to join the action is a phone to record a video on\, and yourself! The aim of the action is to amplify support in the health community for the creation of a national green jobs scheme\, highlighting the benefits to public health of ensuring employment that is both secure and sustainable. \n\n\n\nYou can take part at any time during the day of the 23rd March ─ whenever you have 5-10 spare minutes in your day. \n\n\n\n\nSign up now to receive a copy of our digital action guide that lays out in more detail the steps to follow to participate in the action! \n\n\n\n\n[Registration has now closed]
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/online-storytelling-action-for-green-jobs/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Actions,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210329T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210329T193000
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SUMMARY:Alternative Training on Prevent in Healthcare
DESCRIPTION:It is possible to create a society in which our collective safety and wellbeing are prioritised. Developing trusting\, healthy relationships with all of our patients is essential to this work. \nHowever\, Prevent ─ with the government’s stated aim of identifying “vulnerability to radicalisation” ─ compromises all of this\, and is a source of harm and increased marginalisation. \nWhy is the NHS the only healthcare system in the world with a legal obligation to engage with such a strategy? What aren’t you being told about Prevent in safeguarding training? \nJoin our Alternative Training on Prevent online on Monday 29th March at 6pm to learn more\nThis training will seek to shed light on some unanswered questions about Prevent. We will hear from: \n\nMembers of Medact’s Securitisation of Health Group (SHG)\nDr Tarek Younis ─ a cultural and clinical critical psychologist and lecturer in psychology\nMarcelo Camus ─ member of Medact’s SHG\, a social practice artist and co-founder and organiser of the Social Art Network\nReem Abu-Hayyeh ─ Campaigns and Policy Lead: Peace and Security at Medact\n\nThis event is particularly aimed at people who work or are training in\, study\, or who have worked in health. \nWe are aware that some people may feel some concern or worry about attending the event. As such\, we will be sending an email out to attendees prior to the event detailing how we will be seeking to make this event as safe and secure as possible. \nThe event is now full! You can register for the waiting list below: \nAdd your name to the waiting list
URL:https://www.medact.org/event/alternative-training-on-prevent-in-healthcare/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Training
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