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SOCIAL JUSTICE NIGHTS
Fun, interesting, and progressive…
Thursday, November 23 - 7-9pm
at the Free Times Cafe, 320 College Street, Toronto

Join this week’s conversation:
Inequality is Bad for Your Health
with Dennis Raphael (School of Health Policy & Management: York University)
and Blake Poland (Department of Public Health Sciences: University of Toronto)

Come early for dinner and meet like-minded people who share your values.
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Inequality and Health
The CSJ has taken a leading stand in educating Canadians on how socio-economic factors affects
our health. We organized a conference of over 500 social and health policy experts from across
Canada to discuss how societal factors such as housing, unemployment and social inclusion
affect the health of Canadians and how they could be improved. This conference led to the
publication of the book, Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, edited by Dennis
Raphael. In Social Justice is Good for Our Hearts, Dr. Raphael shows heart disease is primarily
due to poverty and inequality; and in Poverty, Income Inequality, and Health in Canada he establishes
that poverty is also the major factor contributing to diabete! s, tuberculosis and several other diseases
that are gaining new ground in Canada.  In our most recent book, Health for Some: Death, Disease
and Disparity in a Globalizing Era, Ronald Labonte, Ted Schrecker, and Amit Sen Gupta investigates
the impact of globalization on human health.
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SOCIAL JUSTICE NIGHTS

The Center for Social Justice is organizing a weekly series of conversations
that promise to be fun, interesting and progressive!

Each Thursday evening from 7:00 to 9:00pm we will offer a discussion
of current issues and events with featured guests, films, music, etc

These are meant to be introductory sessions — Social Justice 101 ­
encouraging a new generation to become more informed and more active on
social justice issues.

We have chosen a licensed venue where people will feel comfortable
socializing after the event — to continue the discussion, forge
relationships and build a stronger movement and political culture.

Our featured guest(s) will jump-start the discussion with some introductory
remarks rather than deliver a lecture.

We want to engage people in thoughtful and provocative conversation, in an
interactive and inclusive atmosphere.

You don’t have to come every week, but when you do, you’ll find interesting
things going on — special guests, a video on current issues, music
and interesting people to meet.

VENUE
Free Times Café offers a central location close to the U of  T.
It also has a reputation for original music, drama and poetry readings  
located in the funky Kensington area.

Free Times Café is located at 320 College Street, Toronto
(Two blocks west of College and Spadina).
It is wheelchair accessible.

ADMISSION POLICY
The series is free. We will encourage donations of $3 to $5 to cover the
costs of publicity.

FALL PROGRAM (this is a draft schedule subject to change)
Nov 30   Immigration and Refugee Issues
Dec 7     Lessons for the Left – Old Reds sharing with Young Pinkos
           
We welcome your suggestions…

POSSIBLE TOPICS FOR THE WINTER
Make Work Pay! - One Million Reasons
Hotel Workers Rising: Lifting one another above the poverty line
Justice and Peace in the Middle East
Women in Prisons
What is Social Justice?
Quebec
Corporate Power / Corporate Accountability
Environmental Issues
Free Trade
Less Military, More Security: An Alternative Defense Policy for Canada
Media and Movements: how to communicate social justice to the mass media

POSSIBLE FILMS AND VIDEOS FOR THE WINTER
An Inconvenient Truth
Walmart: The high cost of low price, and Why Walmart Works  
The World According to George Bush
Check Point