All Events
Theme for 2013 — 2014: This Is Public Hell
Event pages
- 03/18 General Meeting
- 03/03 After Tiller
- 01/28 Abortion lunchtime discussion
- 01/11 Shock Doctrine screening
- 10/29/2013 A Dream Foreclosed
- 04/22/2013 How to Survive a Plague screening
- 03/21/2013 Absolutely Safe screening
- 03/16/2013 War and Peace
- 02/12/2013 No More Deaths
- 01/28/2013 The House I Live In screening
- 11/12/2012 Revolutionary Doctors
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RPH members: name a page in this box, and click the button to create a new event page.1 Event page names should be in this format: yy-mm-dd event-name. Here are two examples: 14-03-03after-tiller and 14-03-18gen-mtg.
2014 Spring
March | |||
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03/18 | General Meeting | ||
03/03 | After Tiller | film screening | |
03/02 | facilitator meeting | ||
February | |||
presentation | at Minority Health in the Midwest conference | ||
02/18-02/19 | (attended) UIC Faculty Union strike | ||
02/15 | facilitator meeting | ||
January | |||
01/28 | Abortion is a Public Health Issue | lunchtime discussion | |
01/11 | Shock Doctrine | film screening |
2013 Fall
December | |||
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12/08 | facilitator meeting | ||
November | |||
11/24 | APHA report-back | lunchtime discussion | |
the public health impacts of and the policies and ideologies that created this prison nation | presentation | at American Public Health Association conference | |
11/03 | Stop Bloomberg's "Stop and Frisk" policy | protest | at American Public Health Association conference |
October | |||
10/29 | A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home | activist discussion and community forum | with Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Metropolitan Tenants Organization, Minority Students for the Advancement of Public Health, Public Health Student Association, UIC Department of Urban Planning |
10/24 | (endorsed and attended) One Hundred Years of Sexual Health In Chicago: The More Things Change… | lunch symposium | |
10/16 | How Does Housing Relate to Public Health? | discussion | |
September | |||
09/23 | General Meeting |
2013 Summer
August | |||
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08/28 | Radical Data: How (Not) Counting Prison Inmates is Concealing Racial Inequality | lunch lecture | with Becky Pettit, author of Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress and Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington |
08/23 | Gave testimony at Cook County Hospital board meeting | ||
08/02 | (endorsed and attended) IVAW's 2013 National Convention plenary event, 21st Century American Militarism: Occupation Abroad and Resistance at Home | ||
July | |||
07/27 | Where is China Headed? | discussion | |
07/24 | (attended) rally to save Chicago Public Schools at Board of Education meeting | ||
June | |||
06/17 | Governing Obesity in the Neoliberal City | planning meeting and discussion | |
May | |||
05/28 | Wrote statement of support and attended South Side Trauma Care Forum hosted by SHE and FLY | ||
05/11 | 1st Anniversary Party | party | |
April | |||
04/28 | (attended) The Labor Research Action Network's (LRAN) event Labor Scholarship and Worker Justice: Innovative Collaborations in Chicago | ||
04/26 | Gave testimony at Cook County Health & Hospital System board meeting | ||
04/22 | How to Survive a Plague | film screening and panel discussion | |
04/15 | Mass Incarceration | guest lecture and discussion | at College of Social Work class |
2013 Spring
April | |||
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03/27 | (attended) Rally and March to Stop School Closings | ||
03/21 | Absolutely Safe | film screening | |
March | |||
03/18 | (attended) Arundhati Roy lecture (and happy hour debriefing) | ||
03/16 | War and Peace: A Public Health Perspective / The Health Consequences of War | conference | with GHSIG and EMERGENCY (USA) |
03/14 | (attended) Dr. John Rich & Dr. Ted Corbin—Viewing Urban Violence Through the Lens of Trauma | ||
03/12 | Shattering Families: How Mass Incarceration Harms Parents and Children | seminar | with CLAIM and Visible Voices |
03/10 | (attended) National Coming Out of the Shadows Day | ||
February | |||
02/25 | General Meeting | ||
02/22 | Mass Incarceration | presentation | Minority Health in the Midwest conference |
02/12 | No More Deaths: Humanitarian Aid is Never a Crime / Resistance, Immigrant Justice, and What We Can Do to Help | activist discussion and community forum | with Latino Union of Chicago, Immigrant Youth Justice League, EMERGENCY (USA), GHSIG, MSAPH |
02/07 | (attended) Capitalism, Sexism and the Roots of Sexual Violence discussion at UIC's African-American Cultural Center, hosted by Chicago Socialists | ||
02/04 | Guest lecture and discussion at Northwestern University's Public Health and Its Discontents class | ||
January | |||
01/28 | The House I Live In: Mass Incarceration, the Drug War, and Public Health | film screening and panel discussion | |
01/21 | March for Moratorium on Deportations | protest | |
01/10 | The New Jim Crow | winter break book club |
2012 Fall
December | |||
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12/12 | planning meeting | ||
November | |||
11/19 | Prison Industrial Complex | discussion | |
11/18 | planning meeting | ||
11/12 | Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World's Conception of Health Care | lecture by Steve Brouwer and reception | |
11/08 | (attended) Amy Goodman/Tavis Smiley/Cornel West lecture at Northwestern | ||
11/04 | baking party / planning meeting | ||
October | |||
10/26 | (attended) Chicago Area Workers' Cooperatives Conference | ||
10/22 | Status of Cholera Epidemic in Haiti (Draft resolution to be presented at APHA) | lecture and discussion | |
10/17 | (attended) FLY Community Forum on the need for a trauma care center on the South Side | ||
10/15 | Maternal and Child Health: Doulas, Infant Mortality… | discussion | |
10/03 | The Take | film screening | |
September | |||
09/19 | Neoliberalism in Chicago | discussion | |
09/15 | (attended) Chicago Teachers Union solidarity rally | ||
09/05 | Concept-mapping: Homelessness, Violence, Health Disparities (Inequities), Food Security/Food Access | General Meeting | |
09/03 | planning picnic |
2012 Summer
August | |||
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08/24 | Tabled at SPH new student orientation | tabling | |
08/20 | (attended) The Next Movement's Treating Drug Abuse as a Public Health Issue, Not a Crime forum and panel discussion at Stroger Hospital (followed by RPH social debriefing happy hour) | ||
July | |||
07/17 | Nonprofit-Industrial Complex | discussion | |
07/03 | Food Access and Food Security | discussion | |
June | |||
06/13 | discussion | ||
May | |||
05/30 | discussion |
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