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Health Care Reform: Myths and Facts

Event info: Thursday 17 September 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Are you struck by the sneaking suspicion something fishy is going on with health care reform? Can’t tell your Medicares from your Medicaids? Come learn about the facts and fictions surrounding national health reform. Benjamin Day from Mass-Care will help arm you with the facts to sort myth from reality and provide an inside account [...]

Tagged as: health care, public option, social movements

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!Salud! Film and Discussion with Dr. Marty Schotz and Nancy Kohn

Event info: Friday 24 October 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Find out what puts Cuba on the map in the quest for global health …   Cuba has trained more than 30,000 medical doctors from over 68 countries, including 100 from the United States, for free. Now they are working with the poorest of the poor all across the globe. Learn about their battle for [...]

Tagged as: Cuba, health care

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“Unnatural Causes” Film Screening at English High School

Event info: Thursday 1 May 2008 – 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Thursday, May 1st:  6:00pm – reception, 6:30-8:30 – screening English High School Community Center, 144 McBride St., Jamaica Plain Refreshments will be served. “Unnatural Causes” is a documentary series that explores the racial and social inequalities in health. Please come to a special Jamaica Plain neighborhood viewing of the episode “Place Matters.” English-to-Spanish translation available. [...]

Tagged as: community, feedback, health care

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“SiCKO” Documentary Screening and Discussion

Event info: Thursday 8 November 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist Parish Hall 6 Eliot St. (Across from the Monument) Please come join us for the screening of Micheal Moore’s film “SiCKO,” followed by a discussion led by members of the Boston Liberation Health Group. We will discuss bill HR 676, the Expand and Improve Medicare For All Act. [...]

Tagged as: Cuba, economics, health care

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Exporting the Drug War Overseas

Event info: Friday 27 July 2007 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Friday, July 27th, 7:00pm First Church of Jamaica Plain Unitarian Universalist, Parish Hall Presenting Sanho Tree, Fellow at Institute for Policy Studies and Director of the Drug Policy Project. Our jails are filled with nonviolent drug offenders and our militarized approach to combating drugs overseas is destroying indigenous economies and sewing seeds of antagonism toward [...]

Tagged as: colonialism, drug policy, health care, Latin America

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“Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita”

Event info: Friday 11 January 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Friday, January 11th at 7:00pm First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist 6 Eliot St, Jamaica Plain, MA Some consider stem cell research the Holy Grail of regenerative medicine. Others view the idea as morally wrong. But what would you do if your child became paralyzed from the waist down and you had access to [...]

Tagged as: health care, stem cells

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