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Lisa Campbell [ Profil ] |
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TONIGHT - Health for All: Health Care Provision and Direct Action Politics Panel
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May 22nd, 2009 - 15:33:25 |
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> *********************************
> May 22, 7pm
> 63 Gould Street (Ryerson University)
> Health for All!
> Health Care Provision and Direct Action Politics Panel
> with speakers from NY, Montreal and Toronto
> **********************************
>
> Join Students for Medicare and No One is Illegal as we bring together
> health professionals, organizing alongside their communities in the
> fight
> for health for all!
>
> Health care professionals are on the front lines of care every day,
> and
> are direct witnesses to the inadequate resources and access to
> health care
> facing many marginalized populations in our own communities. It is
> during
> their professional lives that health care providers realize that just
> showing up to the clinic will not be enough to make everyone well.
>
> This evening will provide opportunities to discuss the difference
> between
> patient advocacy and patient solidarity. We will learn from example
> how
> community members and health care professionals have used creativity
> to
> build safer, healthier communities and a healthy analysis of what it
> is
> that really makes us sick, and what it will take to realize health for
> all.
>
> Panelists include:
>
> *Bethany Schroeder, Executive Director of the Ithaca Health Alliance,
> Ithaca, NY (www.ithacahealthalliance.org)*
> Bethany Schroeder will discuss the Ithaca Health Alliance which has
> been
> working for over ten years to facilitate creative health solutions
> for the
> uninsured. Their work includes providing grants for medical
> procedures,
> and the Ithaca Free Clinic, which provides 100% free conventional and
> holistic healthcare services to the un- and under-insured.
>
> *Roland Wong, M.D., Toronto*
> Dr. Wong is a community physician who works primarily with patients
> living
> in poverty. He has recently been challenged by the College of
> Physicians
> and Surgeons of Ontario regarding his professional "misconduct"
> because he
> continues to fill out Special Diet Forms for patients desperately in
> need.
> Dr. Wong has will speak on the direct link between poverty and
> health, and
> how he has successfully worked with OCAP to meet his patient's needs.
>
> *Samir Shaheen Hussain, M.D, Montreal*
> Over the years, Samir has been involved with Indigenous solidarity,
> migrant justice and anti-police brutality organising, with groups
> like the
> Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement (IPSM), Solidarity Across
> Borders
> (SAB) and No One Is Illegal-Montreal (NOII). He will provide a
> critical
> overview of the barriers imposed on migrant folks in accessing
> healthcare,
> and will discuss the significant potential of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
> policies based on his experiences with migrant children during his
> pediatric residency. Samir will also speak about the politicization of
> both health care workers and community members as being necessary for
> Health for All.
>
> *Cathy Crowe, R.N., Toronto Disaster Relief Committee, Toronto*
> Cathy Crowe has been a Street Nurse in downtown Toronto for over 20
> years.
> She has worked as a nurse and activist helping to found numerous
> coalitions that have fought for social justice including: Nurses for
> Social Responsibility, Toronto Coalition Against Homelessness, TB
> Action
> Group, and the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee which in 1998
> declared
> homelessness a national disaster.
>
> *************************************
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> http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org
> nooneisillegal (at) riseup.net
>
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