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<br>From: Lily Walkover <<a href="mailto:phm@hesperian.org">phm@hesperian.org</a>><span style="font-family:Arial"><font size="3"><font face="arial black,sans-serif"><br><br></font></font>Please note the following sessions at the American Public Health Association meetings in </span><span style="font-family:Arial">Washington</span><span style="font-family:Arial">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial">DC</span><span style="font-family:Arial">, Oct. 29 - Nov. 2. Sessions will include issues onr Trade & Health Forum and Medical Care, as well as the Global Health Watch 3 launch.</span><div class="gmail_quote">
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:'Arial Narrow'"><font size="4">SUNDAY, October 30</font><span><i> </i></span></span>2:30-4:00PM<span style="font-family:'Arial Narrow'"></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt">Roundtable and conversation with trade and health experts:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:SymbolMT;font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">• </font></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt">Aaron Schwid, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:SymbolMT;font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">• </font></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt">Peter Maybarduk, Global Trade Watch/Public Citizen</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:SymbolMT;font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">• </font></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt">Celeste Drake, AFL-CIO</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:SymbolMT;font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">• </font></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt">Ellen Shaffer, CPATH; Don Zeigler, AMA; and others…</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:11pt">Discuss the latest news on trade agreement negotiations, including access to medicines and tobacco control, and what we can do to promote public health. Plus, Forum business and elections. Please join us!</span></p>
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<h2><font size="4">Can public health prevail on Medicare, social programs, reproductive rights? P. Ellen Parsons Memorial Session, <span><font style="background-color:#f1eedf">4321</font></span> </font> </h2>
<div><font size="4">Tuesday, November 1, 2011: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM </font></div>
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<div>The 2011 P. Ellen Parsons session reviews public policy issues of critical importance to public health: <b>debates on the federal budget and on Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security; and reproductive rights.</b> This annual session honors and memorializes the life of P. Ellen Parsons, a scientific researcher and a passionate and humorous advocate, and a leader in this session's APHA sponsors: Medical Care Section, Women's Caucus, Spirit of 1848 Caucus, and Women's Caucus. </div>
<div><b>Session Objectives:</b> Identify threats to major U.S. social insurance programs - Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security - and to reproductive health. Discuss how the Congressional Progressive Caucus and other policy makers are responding to these threats Evaluate strategies for advancing reproductive rights and justice. </div>
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<div><a href="http://apha.confex.com/apha/139am/schedule/Role465026.html" target="_blank"><font color="#006699">Ellen R. Shaffer</font></a>, PhD MPH </div></div>
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<div>2:30 PM: <a href="http://apha.confex.com/apha/139am/schedule/Paper253707.html" target="_blank"><font color="#006699">What is Congress doing about social insurance?</font></a><br><span><b><b><i><font face="Trebuchet MS">Cathy Hurwit, Chief of Staff, Rep. Jan Schakowsky</font></i></b></b></span></div>
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<div>3:00 PM <a href="http://apha.confex.com/apha/139am/schedule/Paper253679.html" target="_blank"><font color="#006699">Women's rights: Where does our movement stand?</font></a><br><span><b><b><i><font face="Trebuchet MS">Louise Melling, American Civil Liberties Union, </font></i></b></b></span> <b><i>Director, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project</i></b></div>
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<p><b>CE Credits:</b> Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) <font color="#888888"><br></font>--</p><p><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Occupy</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> Wall St and </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Occupy</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> movements in cities and towns across the country</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">have opened up great opportunities to link the struggles for social justice</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">with public health. </span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">An APHA panel session will discuss this</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">important and exciting development of the </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Occupy</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> movements along with</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">popular protests around the world. </span><b><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">The panel (Session 4339) will be on</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
</b><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><b>TUESDAY, NOV. 1st at 2:30 PM in ROOM 147-B of the Convention Center (WCC)</b>.</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Panelists will include health activists participating in the movements in</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Egypt, Wisconsin, Baltimore, NY and elsewhere.</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">After the session, join panelists in a march to the nearby </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Occupy</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> DC site to</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">show solidarity of public health activists with </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Occupy</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> DC and to demand</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">healthcare for all instead of a system that delivers health care services</span><br style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
<span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">only for profits for the 1% at the expense of health for the 99%.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">--</span></p>
<p><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:helvetica;font-size:15px">Join PHM-US at the </span><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11pt"><a href="http://e2ma.net/go/7316348915/208717819/226353592/35444/goto:http://www.apha.org/meetings/AnnualMeeting" rel="APHA conference" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 204)" target="_blank">APHA conference</a> in Washington, DC</span><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:helvetica;font-size:15px"> for wine and cheese on <span style="text-decoration:underline">Tuesday, 11/1 from 4:00 – 5:30</span> to celebrate the launch of</span><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11pt"><i> <span style="background-color:rgb(169, 218, 146);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">Global</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(169, 218, 146);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">Health</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(169, 218, 146);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">Watch</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(169, 218, 146);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">3</span>: An Alternative World <span style="background-color:rgb(169, 218, 146);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">Health</span> Report</i>! We will be gathering at the Hesperian <span style="background-color:rgb(169, 218, 146);color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-repeat:initial initial">Health</span> Guides table, <u>Booth 6000</u>, and </span><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11pt">copies of the new report will be available hot off the press</span><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11pt">.</span><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span></p>
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