<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear all,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">PHM South East Asia Pacific region is organising a webinar on tensions between the USA and China in Asia and potential impacts on people’s health.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">The webinar will be exploring regional concerns about rising tensions between the USA and China and risks of an armed conflict. </span></i><i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">What are the potential consequences for people’s health? What can be done by PHM and by citizens of the SEAP countries to minimise that risk? <u>Details below:</u></span></i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Are we sleepwalking into war?</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Webinar by</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">PHM South East Asia Pacific region</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Wednesday September 28;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">10 pm Canberra; 8 pm Philippines (12:00 UTC)</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Zoom link: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83276197418?pwd=d1Erd05tU0RrcWVLdVNOSjV3eWdYdz09" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83276197418?pwd=d1Erd05tU0RrcWVLdVNOSjV3eWdYdz09</span></a><br>Passcode: 218383<br>Webinar ID: 832 7619 7418.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:center;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Youtube Live: People’s Health Movement (English)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Introduction:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Roman Vega</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, Global Coordinator, People’s Health Movement</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Speakers<i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">:</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Prof Walden Bello</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prof Bello is a scholar and activist, Professor of Sociology and Public Administration at the University of the Philippines Diliman; former member of the Phillipines parliament and a Vice-Presidential candidate for recent elections.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Prof Ken Hammond</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Kenneth J. Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Hammond has focused his study and research on China and Chinese culture. He has been a strong critic of the US diplomatic, economic and military approach to China. He is the editor of the journal Ming Studies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Dr Sue Wareham</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr Wareham has spoken and written widely on peace and disarmament issues and is President of the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) and a board member of ICAN (the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) Australia which was awarded a 2017 Nobel peace Prize.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Dr Toru Honda</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr Honda is a physician who has worked in Fukushima and is following the nuclear power plant disaster. Environmental radioactive contamination is widespread in Fukushima and will be for years to come. Dr Honda has campaigned  to reduce the risk of harm from war and the nuclear industry and for the waiver on intellectual property for Covid-19 and other vaccines.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Moderator:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Paul Laris</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, Coordinator, South East Asian Pacific Region, People’s Health Movement</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;line-height:24px"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Link on PHM website: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://phmovement.org/webinar-on-tensions-between-the-usa-and-china-in-asia-and-potential-impacts-on-peoples-health/">https://phmovement.org/webinar-on-tensions-between-the-usa-and-china-in-asia-and-potential-impacts-on-peoples-health/</a></span></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Best,</font></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Jyotsna</font></p><p style="margin-right:0cm;margin-left:0cm;font-size:medium"></p></div></div>