Leicester Secular Society Events

30 November 2020    -    6 December 2020 (Week 49) Public Access Category: All None (i) External event of interest (i) For Information External event featuring LSS member(s) LSS - for information LSS - Public event (not at Secular Hall) LSS - Secular Hall - MEMBERS ONLY LSS - Secular Hall - Public event LSS/joint public event (not at Secular Hall) LSS/joint public event - Secular Hall Secular Hall (non-LSS event) X - Joint meeting (all welcome) X - Public lecture/meeting (all welcome) Category: All

Mon 30 Nov Tue 1 Dec Wed 2 Dec Thu 3 Dec Fri 4 Dec Sat 5 Dec Sun 6 Dec     World HIV/Aids Day (for info) International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (for info) International Day of Persons with Disabilities (for info)       08:00               09:00               10:00     10:00» Leicester Hospitals: Public event - General discussion (ext event)   10:00» Travel Talks Leicester: (ext online event)     11:00             12:00             13:00             14:00             15:00             16:00             17:00             18:00           18:30» LSS: Rogelio Braga - The Radicalization of a Woman Without a Paper 19:00 19:00» Leicester General Hospital is closing - Why? (ext event)             20:00   20:00» Robert Fisk season: Angels are made of Light (ext event)

Time:

19:00

Location:

Online via Zoom

Description:

"More COVID waves are coming. Why is Leicester General Hospital being closed?"

Zoom meeting hosted by Save Our NHS Leicestershire (facebook: facebook.com/SONHSLeicester/)

To discuss the plans to reorganise our hospitals in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and why we should be concerned.

The consultation period ends mid December 2020. Find out how the proposals affect health issues of particular interest to you.

Details and registration: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-covid-waves-are-coming-why-is-leicester-general-hospital-being-closed-tickets-129048029129&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw0Oqc5mkI8VsE8MXFZAbACK

There are a similar events on 9 and 21 November.

Location:

World / International

Description:

29 NOV: UN International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
1 DEC: World HIV/Aids Day
2 DEC: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 DEC: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
10 DEC: Intl Human Rights Day
18 DEC: Intl Migrants Day

Time:

20:00

Location:

Online via https://sandsfilms.co.uk/cinema-club-and-events.html

Description:

In homage to journalist Robert Fisk who died recently, Sands Films Cinema Club (https://sandsfilms.co.uk/cinema-club-and-events.html) is presenting two special events.

1 Dec 2020, 8pm.
Film: James Longley's "Angels are made of Light" (Grasshopper Film, 2018)
Info: https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/angels-are-made-of-light/

8 Dec 2020, 8pm.
Yung Chang's "This Is Not A Movie" (2019)
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q11M5yucOQ

Location:

World / International

Description:

29 NOV: UN International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
1 DEC: World HIV/Aids Day
2 DEC: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 DEC: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
10 DEC: International Human Rights Day
18 DEC: International Migrants Day

Time:

10:00-19:00

Location:

Online via Microsoft Teams or Zoom. Advance registration may be required.

Description:

Hosted by Building Better Hospitals for the Future (BBHF), the NHS organisation planning a "once in a lifetime" £450m reorganisation of hospital provision for Leicester, Leicestershire, and much of the East Midlands beyond.

Find details to attend of this and other events in support of the proposal at https://www.betterhospitalsleicester.nhs.uk/meetings-and-events/

See also resources and events hosted by Save Our NHS Leicestershire ( http://saveournhsleicestershire.org/ ).

While welcoming much of the scheme, Save Our NHS Leicestershire has serious reservations about the adequacy of some aspects, including closure of Leicester General Hospital for acute treatment, closure of a midwife-led maternity unit, concentration of even more beds in the already congested LRI site, whether the modest increase in beds will meet the needs of expected population growth, sale of NHS land to the private sector, and lack of clarity as to how and where various services will be provided in the community.

See https://en-gb.facebook.com/pg/SONHSLeicester/events/?ref=page_internal for details of these events, and follow @SONHSLeics on Twitter https://twitter.com/SONHSLeics

Above all, inform yourself, tell others, and participate in the consultation!

Dates known at the time of making this listing:

18 Nov, 6pm, BBHF event
19 Nov, 6pm, BBHF event
21 Nov, 2pm, BBHF event
21 Nov, 2pm, SONHSLeics event: https://en-gb.facebook.com/events/1697791520395486/
23 Nov, 6pm, BBHF event
27 Nov, 10am, BBHF event
30 Nov, 7pm, SONHSLeics event: https://en-gb.facebook.com/events/677230683167580/
2 Dec, 10am, BBHF event
12 Dec, 2pm, BBHF event
13 Dec, 2pm, BBHF event
21 Dec, 6pm, BBHF consultation ends - be sure to take the survey well before the deadline: https://nhs.researchfeedback.net/s.asp?k=160035362231 !

Location:

World / International

Description:

29 NOV: UN International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People
1 DEC: World HIV/Aids Day
2 DEC: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
3 DEC: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
10 DEC: International Human Rights Day
18 DEC: International Migrants Day

Time:

10:00

Location:

Online via Zoom

Description:

This excellent diverse series of travel talks continues online after many years at Leicester Adult Education College (LAEC).

Friday mornings

10:10 for 10:15 - part 1
11:10 for 11:15 - part 2
(if time runs out, join again after part 2 for more Q&A and chat.

get details to join this zoom talk via http://traveltalksleicester.co.uk/

Time:

18:30

Location:

Online via Zoom

Description:

Leicester Secular Society presents our

ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS LECTURE

‘The Radicalization of a Woman Without a Paper: Status Now For All’

with Rogelio Braga, co-chair of Status Now 4 All.

All are welcome to participate for free. Joining information is in our weekly email. Sign up at http://leicestersecularsociety.org.uk/register/?p=subscribe&id=1

Or email contact@Lsec.org.uk for login details.

To speak or even utter a word on your demeaning situation during the pandemic as an undocumented migrant or as a person currently in the legal migration process and living under the hostile environment of the British people is already a radical performance.

Since the lockdown and the height of the public health crisis in March, undocumented migrants and those who are in legal process are suffering because of the lack of access to institutional help and public support, while being silenced by the more powerful narratives with platforms that politicize and criminalize migrants.

At the onset of the lockdown in the UK in 2020, Status Now 4 All, a network of almost ninety organizations, labour unions, and community organizations called for the regularisation of all undocumented migrants and those in the legal process living the country.

Since then, the network has relentlessly campaigned on the streets, in Downing Street and in online platforms. Members and supporters write to government officials, an Early Day Motion was tabled in Parliament and we met with the Mayor of London.

Using the study of Filipino women working as domestic workers conducted by Ella Parry-Davies 'A Chance to Feel Safe: Precarious Filipino Migrants amid the UK’s Corona Virus Outbreak' released in June as a springboard for narration and exposition, this lecture will emphasize the immediacy of regularization of all undocumented migrants and those in the legal process as a public health concern, reveal the narratives of sufferings among those who are living in precarity under the Government-imposed lockdown, and explore the many voices calling for status now for all in the UK — the radicalization of a woman without a paper speaking to the void as a controlling metaphor.

Rogelio Braga is an exiled playwright, novelist, essayist, publisher, and a human rights activist from the Philippines. He published two novels, a collection of short stories, and a book of plays before he left the archipelago in 2018. He was a fellow of the Asian Cultural Council for theatre in Southeast Asia in 2016. His first play on the human rights situation in Duterte Philippines, 'Miss Philippines', written entirely in English is currently under development commissioned by the New Earth Theatre in London. He co-chairs Status Now 4 All and is a political asylum seeker.

**Please help by spreading the word about this important lecture – to individuals or organisations who might be interested.

Links:
Status Now 4 All: https://statusnow4all.org/
@Statusnow4all on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Statusnow4all
Dr Ella Parry-Davies"A chance to feel safe" https://www.cssd.ac.uk/news/a-chance-feel-safe-report

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