Geelong Radical Women invites you to its inaugural meeting:
Thursday, 17 August, 7.00 pm (light refreshments served at 6.30 pm for $4
donation)
SOCIETY'S SICK PRIORITIES TAKE A TOLL ON OUR MENTAL HEALTH --
BUT WOMEN CAN TURN THIS AROUND!
When healthcare is handed over to profiteers, women and people with mental
and physical disabilities are the first to feel the pain. The privatisation
and slashing of services, combined with the rollback of Medicare, are
putting more and more people at risk -- especially the young and elderly,
Aborigines, queers, women, immigrants denied benefits, and the poor. Women
are hit doubly hard when public health becomes a private burden, borne
mainly by the huge female labour force of unpaid domestic carers and
under-paid community workers. But there is an alternative!
Come along to hear Marita Borton, a community psychiatric service worker,
Brigitte Ellery, a mental health consumer, and David Guthrie, from the
Mental Health Consumer Union, and discuss the solution. Everyone is welcome.
Place: Mental Health Consumers Union, 202 Myers Street, Geelong
For more information, phone Brenda on (03) 5253 3373 or email:
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