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Doctors for Global Health
2005 General Assembly Registration

Ten Years of Accompaniment

Agenda

Register on site! All are welcome.
Columbia University, School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA)
420 West 118th Street, New York, NY

Doctors for Global Health is pleased to invite you to the 10th Annual DGH General Assembly. This participatory event is an opportunity to come together and meet others working to advance health and human rights. It's a time to learn, support one another, have fun and re-energize yourself to continue working for social justice around the world. The program includes keynote speakers; a panel discussion led by our overseas partners; discussions of DGH accompaniment work in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico, Uganda, and with the People's Health Movement; and social/networking time. Topics to be covered include accompaniment and volunteerism, and how communities can foster healing in the wake of violence. Please join us!

Special Guest Speakers:

    Charlie Clements, MD, MPH, is a public health physician and a human rights activist. His MD and MPH are from the University of Washington, where he's a Distinguished Alumnus of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Charlie has been widely recognized for his humanitarian efforts working as physician in a 'free fire zone' in El Salvador during the civil war. He has served on the boards of both Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). He represented PHR at the treaty signing in Ottawa and a week later at the Nobel peace prize ceremonies is Oslo for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Charlie is the author of Witness to War (Bantam, 1984) and subject of an Academy Award winning documentary of the same title. He is currently President and CEO of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Earlier in his life he was a Distinguished Graduate of the USAF Academy and was a pilot in Vietnam until his conscience led him to refuse further service.

    Kathy Kelly, MA, helped found Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the UN/US sanctions against Iraq. For bringing medicine and toys to Iraq in open violation of the UN/US sanctions, she and other campaign members were threatened with 12 years in prison and eventually fined $50,000, which they have refused to pay. Ms. Kelly has been to Iraq more than twenty times since January 1996, when the campaign began. In October 2002, she joined Iraq Peace Team members in Baghdad where she and the team maintained a presence throughout the bombardment and invasion. Ms. Kelly has taught in Chicago area community colleges and high schools since 1974. She is active with the Catholic Worker movement and, as a pacifist and war tax refuser, has refused payment of all Federal income tax for 23 years. In 1988 Ms. Kelly was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites. She served nine months of the sentence in a maximum security prison. She was also imprisoned for three months in Pekin Federal Prison Camp for her participation in a nonviolent protest calling for closure of a military combat training school based in Fort Benning, GA. She recently wrote a book, Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison, edited by Alexander Cockburn and available through www.counterpunch.org.

Dates: Friday, August 5th to Sunday, August 7th, 2005; Friday night event: Artistic Expression and Human Rights: An Evening of Film, Music and Friends

Place: Columbia University, School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA), 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027

Dress: Very casual

Cost:

    Conference Registration: $50 — $150 sliding scale. (DGH is commited to including a diverse group of people. The sliding scale ranges from below to above our per person cost for putting on the conference. Paying towards the higher end of the scale will help pay for those who can only afford the minimum.)

    A limited number of Sandy Kemp Scholarships covering registration and meals are available for students (places to stay will be furnished by DGH friends in the area). Deadline has been extended to July 1. Announcements of awardees will be made by July 15. To apply please include a short statement with your registration addressing your present and past local, national and/or international health/social justice activities and your need for financial assistance to attend the GA.

    Housing: No more rooms are available at Columbia.


Register on site! All are welcome.

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Please make checks payable to Doctors for Global Health, and indicate on the check that it is for the General Assembly registration, and for whom. Send registration to DGH, P.O. Box 1761, Decatur, GA 30031.

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