East Van Sock Hop - Shake, Rattle & Vote
When: September 16, 2015 at 7:00pm - 10pm
Where:
Heritage Hall
3102 Main St
Vancouver, BC V5T 3G7
Canada
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50's themed dance party with an #elxn42 twist! Please reserve your (free!) ticket online here via Eventbrite.
Health care is a key election issue this fall! Come together for the 2nd#DemocracyCheck event, hosted by Check Your Head. It is an evening of health care activism, vote mobilization, and dancing! Let's look back at the last 50 years of health care progress and decline and envision the road ahead.
Topics and spakers:
➤ WOMEN AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH - France-Emmanuelle Joly, Vancouver Women's Health Collective
➤ REFUGEE HEALTH CARE CUTS - Tasha Kaur, Sanctuary Health
➤ SENIORS' CARE AND WHY IT MATTERS - Marcy Cohen, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
➤ HEALTH CARE AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES - Jessica Wood
➤ PAN-CANADIAN PHARMACARE - Sarah Chown & Amber Bedard, YouthCO
Come out to mobilize for better health care. Stay to shake, rattle, and dance!
Note:
Light refreshments and bus tickets provided.
This is an all ages event.
The East Van Sock Hop is being hosted on traditional and unceded Coast Salish territories.