[van-announce] 3 Events and Announcements from the APH

[Martha Roberts]

*Three announcements and upcoming events from the Alliance for People's
Health*

*1.  Immigrant and Refugee Health Series Still Accepting Participants!*

Are you or someone you know from an immigrant or refugee background and
interested in improving your own health, the health of your family, or
learning skills to advocate for health in your community?  Then join the APH
for this series of workshops.  The Alliance for People’s Health is excited
to host the upcoming Immigrant and Refugee Health Series.

   - *Share how migration and settlement impact health*
   - *Gain valuable preventative health skills & information*
   - *Find out what health and social services are available*
   - *Participate and lead cultural and social activities*
   - *Learn skills to do community health advocacy*

*This new series runs for 9 Thursdays @ 6:00 pm, from September 30 to
November 25.
Dinner, childcare, and bus tickets are provided.

**Topics:
*

   - *Our Health Matters! Migration and Resettlement*
   - *Work With Dignity: Deskilling and Workers Rights*
   - *Relaxation Techniques for Stress and Anxiety*
   - *Healthy Eating for Life*
   - *Collective Cooking Party*
   - *Rebuilding the Body: Exercises for Back and Neck Pain*
   - *Healthy Heart and Lungs*
   - *Smile With Dignity! Why Dental Care Matters*
   - *Culture of Resistance Night*

*We do ask that participants complete a short application form, either by
phone or on the computer, and attempt to attend all sessions.

Contact us at: 604 215 2775;  allianceforpeopleshealth at gmail.com;
http://aphvan.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/now-accepting-applications-for-the-immigrant-and-refugee-health-series/
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*2.  Launch of the People's Health Radio show!**  Does injustice make you
sick? ** **From the mountains of the Philippines to the alleys of the
EastVan a conversation about how racism, sexism, poverty and capitalism
shape the health of our communities and grassroots struggles for health and
justice.**  Listen to the new show*..**

*PEOPLE’S HEALTH RADIO*

***Wednesday from 1 to 2pm on Vancouver Co-op Radio 102.7 FM CFRO -- For
audio archives or internet streaming: *http://www.coopradio.org/

This Week: “Is Capitalism a Disease?”

*Feature interviews* with *Dennis Raphael*, health researcher at York
University and author of *About Canada: Health and Illness* on the social
determinants of health; *Richard Levins*, mathematical ecologist, long-time
political activist and co-author of *The Dialectical Biologist* on
non-capitalist approaches to health in Cuba and Venezuela; and *Martha
Roberts*, Registered Midwife and organizer with the Alliance for People’s
Health on strategies for grassroots organizing for health.  Also, community
members answer our question of the week, “what do you need to be healthy,”
and great music.

http://organizingcentre.wordpress.com/
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3.  Money-Driven Medicine: A Public Film Screening *

*Friday October 15 - 7:00 pm - Organizing Centre for Social and Economic
Justice - 672 East Broadway (@ Fraser)
*

*Money-Driven Medicine* provides the essential introduction we need to
understand the American health care system.  Produced by Academy Award
winner Alex Gibney (*Taxi to the Dark Side; Enron: The Smartest Guys in the
Room*) and inspired by Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book, *Money Driven
Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much*, the film offers a
behind-the-scenes look at how a $2.6 trillion a year health care system went
so terribly wrong and what it will take to fix it.

The U.S. spends twice as much per person on health care as the average
developed nation, 17.5% of GDP - yet outcomes, especially for chronic
diseases, are very often worse. What makes the U.S. the exception? The U.S.
is the only industrialized nation that has chosen to turn medicine into a
largely unregulated, for-profit business.*
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http://www.moneydrivenmedicine.org/

-- 
Alliance for People's Health
allianceforpeopleshealth at gmail.com
604-215-2775
672 E Broadway
Vancouver, BC V5T 1X6

http://aphvan.wordpress.com/
http://smilewithdignity.wordpress.com/

-- 
Martha Roberts, Registered Midwife & Community Organizer
Open Door Midwifery
Alliance for People's Health
http://aphvan.wordpress.com/
http://philippinessolidarity2008.blogspot.com

"Development with social justice can take place only when we are clear where
injustice is taking place."
Anne Hope