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Our friends at the Urban League of Portland are hosting a terrific training opportunity.
The Urban League of Portland invites you to join them for the 2010 Social Justice and Civic Leadership Training program. This free program is designed to enhance and focus your critical lens on social issues to strengthen your skills to create the change you want to see. You will build your capacity to advocate for policy change, social justice and increase our community's ability to influence decision-making, whether it be in your neighborhood, city, county or state.
They have a dynamic line-up of trainers who will share their expertise and experiences empowering their communities and strongly recommended that participants attend all 3 trainings in the series. The trainings are July 23-24, September 17-18 and November 12-13. Please take a look at the brochure for more information.
Space is limited so please send in your registration form by July 16th.
Please email registration form to Kyle at kyle@ulpdx.org or Fax it to the Urban League at 503-281-2612.
For more information on the Social Justice and Civic Leadership Training program please contact Inger at imcdowell@ulpdx.org or call her at 503-280-2600.
Please note - the brochure lists the Friday times from 6-8 and Saturdays from 10-4, so please ignore our event time that shows them as all day sessions.
U.S. Congressman Kurt Schrader will be hosting a town hall meeting in Oregon City on Thursday, January 7, 2010. Here is a great opportunity to not only hear from your Congressman about the state of health reform in DC but also to let him know exactly what you & Oregon want out of health reform.
Press Congressman Schrader to see how the current national proposals meet the Triple Aim ("The Triple Aim," developed by by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement)
You can find out who your federal representatives are using THIS tool (works for the entire USA).
Further town hall & contact information can be found at Congressman Shcrader's website - HERE.
Sorry for the late notice. Our friends at Oregon Action are hosting an evening forum on federal health reform and asked us to post this event. Please attend and bring a friend!
Here's the agenda:
6:30 Welcome, Overview: Gary Cobb
6:40 Jo Ann Bowman, Oregon Action
7:00 Betsy Dillner, HCAN
7:20 Liz Baxter, Archimedes Movement
7:40 Question and Answer Session
8:15 Next Steps: Betsy Dillner
8:25 Acknowledgments: Jo Beall and Gary Cobb
8:30 End
Wow, the town halls are hot in the news - but not because the media is talking about what we need in terms of health reform, or how the health crisis is hurting Americans and American businesses, but because of the sound of people trying to disrupt the town hall process by yelling and screaming.
The message below is the result of a collaborative effort among Archimedes Movement Community Leadership Council members and staff. Members of Congress are holding town hall meetings all over the country in August. We're maintaining a list of the Oregon ones here.
Now is the time to share your views on health reform.
Howard Dean was in Portland last Friday at Powell's Bookstore giving remarks to a crowd of about 200 people about a book he has just finished called Howard Dean's Prescription For Real Reform. Rick had been invited to meet with him after the book signing and I tagged along.
Liz Baxter and I attended the ‘Oregon Health Information Technology (HIT) Stakeholder Engagement Meeting' in Salem on Thursday July 23.
Hosted by SAFE: United for a Healthy Oregon, you're invited to a reception to celebrate Oregon's big step forward on health reform with the passage of HB 2009 and HB 2116. IF you have questions you can call Chris Coughlin at 503-312-8178.
Wear your WCDB t-shirt if you have one; if you don't have one let us know and Erick will get one to you for the next event!
Hosted by SAFE: United for a Healthy Oregon, you're invited to a reception to celebrate Oregon's big step forward on health reform with the passage of HB 2009 and HB 2116. IF you have questions you can call Chris Coughlin at 503-312-8178.
Wear your WCDB t-shirt if you have one; if you don't have one let us know and Erick will get one to you for the next event!
HB 2116, which would generate revenue needed to pull down matching federal funds for expanding coverage to uninsured children and low income adults, was passed out of Oregon's House Revenue Committee on Thursday and sent to the Joint Ways and Means Committee with a do-pass recommendation.
It has been off and on and off again, but it has been added to the Human Services Subcommittee agenda for Thursday at approximately 1:30. It's best to check and make sure before heading to Salem.
You can check committee information at http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/
Daily schedules are printed and can be found at http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/pubs/commsch.pdf
Here is the page where you can sign up:
http://www.earlblumenauer.com/media/health_care_signup.html
It says that he and Governor Dean will hold a Health Care Town Hall at Portland Community College, Cascade Campus on June 5th at 3:30 pm.
By now you've heard about the Archimedes Movement Lobby Day in Salem this Thursday, March 26th (there's still time to RSVP). If you're unable to join us then do the next best thing - sign our online letter and we'll make sure to hand deliver it to your legislators and the Governor's office
Three ways to get your message heard in Salem
In the midst of a legislative session with tough economic decisions to be made, it's very easy for the well-intentioned Oregonians serving in our legislature to lose sight of the goals of health reform. We have three ways to help you remind them to be bold and set a course for Oregon's future health system.
Lobby in Salem for Health Reform
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Are you a health reform "Maverick" filled with "Hope"? Want John Kitzhaber In Your Living Room? You got it! » Sign-up to host a house party If this link doesn't work, please email Matt Webber of the Archimedes Movement staff (matt@wecandobetter.org).
It's Real Simple:
What You'll Then Need:
These house parties will occur all over Oregon and will give people a chance to come together around a common goal: working to fix a broken health care system trough grassroots education and mobilization. With your help this event accomplishes the following:
» Sign-up to host a house party If the above link doesn't work, or if you have a question, please send a note to Matt Webber at matt@wecandobetter.org. |
John Kitzhaber invites you to join him at our 1st Annual Membership Conference. You can see Gov. Kitzhaber's invitation in his blog.
Agenda
9:30 am - Pre-conference workshops (optional, but pre-registration is required)
12:00 pm - Registration and lunch, and bumper sticker contest
1:30 - Plenary Session and Member Convention with John Kitzhaber and the Interim Steering Committee (see grassroots structure document here)
2:45 - Concurrent workshops
4:30 - Looking Forward: Our Next Steps, John Kitzhaber
5:30 - 7:00 pm - Members-only Reception with John Kitzhaber: Appetizers, no-host bar and live music by the Bobby Torres Ensemble - Fun!
» Workshop details (tentative)
Accommodations
Lewis and Clark is making dorm rooms available for those who wish to spend the night Friday and/or Saturday evenings. The lodging must be pre-arranged and costs between $22-$27 per person.
Cost
$30 - Conference sessions, materials and lunch
$35 - The above, plus the Members-only Reception and 1-year membership
A limited number of scholarships are available. You may also inquire about a travel stipend.
For more information or to reserve a room or to arrange to pay onsite, please contact Matt Webber at 503-860-5854 or matt@wecandobetter.org.
To register and pay for the Conference, please use our secure online process. To reserve a place now, but register and pay on-site, or to request a scholarship. Please contact Matt.
Our second Leadership Training will be held the first Saturday in April. Please RSVP using the sign-up link below (preferred, though you must be logged-in to use the sign-up feature) or by sending an email to matt@wecandobetter.org.
This training will focus on three things:
We will also hope to introduce our new staff members.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel will be in Portland, OR, on January 30 for appearances before academic, business, civic and health providers to discuss the need for comprehensive healthcare system reform and the role of HealthCare Vouchers in truly fixing what ails the system.
Dr. Emanuel can be heard at either of two public appearances. The first event will be hosted by the Oregon Health Forum and will begin at 11:30 at the Governor Hotel. For more information consult their Website, http://www.healthforum.org/events/Emanuelluncheon.html.
The second event will be sponsored by the Portland City Club and will take place at the City Club Commons starting at 6:00. For more information consult their Website, http://www.pdxcityclub.org/. Both events are open to the public.
HealthCare Vouchers is the brainchild of two prominent healthcare professionals. Dr. Emanuel is the Chair of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health; he is also a breast oncologist. Victor Fuchs is the Henry J. Kaiser, Jr., Professor ofEconomics and of Health Research and Policy, emeritus, Stanford University.
Want to know where the Presidential candidates stand on health care reform?
The Archimedes Movement invites you and your guests to join us on a statewide (and beyond) house party conference call with John Kitzhaber on Thursday, October 16th. The call is to discuss the health reform plans of Presidential candidates Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama, as well as address the need for grassroots reform at the state level. This is a great opportunity for you to invite family, friends, and neighbors into your home to not only learn learn about the candidates' plans but also to grow the Archimedes Movement. 