HJC’s Spring online political education course, Understanding and Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex, Part 2 - Climate Justice Edition, begins March 3rd, 2022! It is a 6-session series on consecutive Thursdays at 5 pm - 7 pm PST/ 8 pm - 10 pm EST. Featuring special guest presenter Jen Deerinwater.
This course focuses on the intersections of ableism, medical and environmental racism and their entanglements with the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC). You do not have to have taken Part 1 to enroll in and benefit from Part 2, we’ll provide resources and review to catch you up!
WHEN: Starts Thursday March 3rd and runs through April 7th (Six Consecutive Thursdays). The time is the same on each Thursday session: 5p - 7p PST/ 7p - 9p CST/ 8p - 10p EST
WHERE: Online via Zoom. Attend from anywhere!
COST: $185 - $285, work exchanges and scholarships available. No one turned away for lack of funds. If you are able, please consider using the 'cover fees option' for your enrollment contribution, as FlipCause detracts credit card fees (like all online payment platforms). We are a small, disabled/crip, and member-run organization, so whatever you can give supports the participation of others with less access to funds. Thank you!!!
ACCESS INFO: All sessions will provide ASL, English to Spanish interpretation, and live closed captioning. All sessions will be recorded (with participant permission) for the use of participants.
Work Exchanges/ Scholarships: Work exchanges and partial to full scholarships are available based on participant needs. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. To request a work exchange or partial scholarship, please email us at: HJCommonscontactus@gmail.com. Please put: ‘Course Work Exchange or Scholarship’ in the subject line.
Info on Facilitators: This course will be co-facilitated by Mordecai Cohen Ettinger and Rise.
More course information:
You do not have to have taken Part 1 to enroll in and benefit from Part 2, we’ll provide resources and review to catch you up! The course is online via ZOOM with live closed captions and all sessions are recorded for participant use.
This course focuses on the intersections of ableism, medical racism, environmental racism and classism and their entanglements with the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC).
All Health Justice Commons courses employ 3 primary critical lenses: people’s science, intersectional social justice, and an abolitionist mindset to examine and understand the MIC historically and currently. This course explores how the MIC, as a primary source of racialized and gendered medical ableism and violence, has been complicit with, profited from, and has played a significant role in causing climate crisis. It will also explore the many ways these patterns have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic and 4 years of Trump’s fascism, costing millions of lives. We’ll look at the latest research revealing climate crisis and pollution’s causative roles in the rise of multiple diseases, and learn in-depth how many institutions and industries within the MIC profit from the very diseases they cause.
Topics covered:
— The role of medical ableism, racialized ableism, environmental racism and classism in intensifying the lethal impacts and lengthening the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
— Overview of the settler-colonalist roots of the MIC and the ongoing dynamics of intersectional oppression and racialized/ gendered medical ableism.
— The toxicity, medical ableism and violence of prisons and other institutions of confinement connected to the MIC.
— Environmental Racism: From Louisiana’s Cancer Ally, to Bhopal, to Flint, and Gaza. Exploring environmental toxicology and the neurobiology of intergenerational harm.
— Contested Bodies/ Contested Illnesses: What they reveal about the MIC’s complicity with corporate polluters, climate crisis and disease causation.
— Contested toxins: the hidden history of big pharma and its entanglement with big agro, the global war machine, eugenics and imperialism.
— Ways forward to decolonize healthcare. Tools for disrupting and transforming the MIC, and incubating alternatives that you can practice in your own life, work, and communities.