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Add a comment December 15th, 2009 by bronxdoc
January 6th, 2010 will mark the beginning of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine student-run Social Medicine Course. This course is a unique opportunity for the Einstein students to cover “essentials of medical practice not taught in medical school.” This year’s list of speakers amply illustrates the connections between clinical practice and social activism.
The opening speaker will be Dr. Joia Mukerjee of Partners in Health who will discuss “Social Forces in Medicine.” This event will take place at 5:30 PM at the Riklis Auditorium and will be followed by a reception. Subsequent sessions will take place each Wednesday (with one exception) at the 5th floor Forchheimer Auditorium at 5;30PM. Dinner is provided. All events in this series will be listed at the top of our blog roll.
At last year’s course several local readers of the Social Medicine Portal dropped by. Please feel free to come, but write to Ms. Karp (see below) so that we can inform security.
The list of speakers and topics is as follows:
Jan 13 ∙ History of Social Medicine ∙ Matt Anderson, MD, MS.
Jan 20 ∙ LGBT Health and Community Organizing ∙ John-Paul Sanchez, MD, MPH
Jan 27 ∙ Race and Health in the Bronx ∙ Robert Fullilove, EdD
Feb 3 ∙ Harm Reduction in the Bronx: Dealing with the Hepatitis Epidemic among IV Drug Users ∙ Donald Davis
Feb 10 ∙ Motivational Interviewing and Nutrition in the Bronx ∙Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, PhD, RD, CDN
Feb 17 ∙ The Impact of Hep B on Pregnancy in the Asian American Community∙Tomoaki Kato, MD; Maya Gambarin-Gelwin, MD
Feb 24 ∙ Abortion Care in NYC∙Marji Gold, MD
Mar 3 ∙ Native American Health ∙ Donna Perry, MD *Price Center Auditorium
Mar 10 ∙ Separate and Unequal: Medical Apartheid ∙ Neil Calman, MD and Nisha Agarwal, JD
Mar 16* ∙ Liberation Medicine ∙Lanny Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H *Tuesday at 7:15pm*
Mar 17 ∙ Reentry: Old Fears, New Hopes ∙Meekaelle Joseph
Mar 24 ∙ Street Medicine ∙ Jim Withers, MD
Apr 7 ∙ The History and Practice of Community Psychiatry ∙Thomas Betzler, MD
Apr 14 ∙ Nyaya Health: A Case Study in Developing a Healthcare NGO∙ Ryan Schwarz and Bijay Acharya, MD
Apr 21 ∙ Refugee and Asylee care: Human Rights for Torture Survivors ∙ Nicole Sirotin, MD
Apr 28 ∙ Ayurvedic Medicine ∙Bhaswati Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
May 5 ∙ The War on Women: Criminalization of Reproduction in the United States ∙Robert Roose, MD
For any questions or kosher meal requests, please contact Jessica Karp at jkarp@einstein.yu.edu.
Posted by Matt Anderson, MD
1 Comment December 1st, 2009 by bronxdoc
Our colleagues at THE POINT, a South Bronx Community Development Corporation, sent us the following flyer for the South Bronx Food & Film Expo, this Saturday, December 5th (noon to 5PM).
Their announcement reads:
If you are interested in growing your own food, or having better access to healthy food, or getting involved with changing current food policies, this is the event for you! Our expo features groups that can help you do all this and more. Or if you simply want to come sample free local healthy foods, maybe learn a thing or two, and watch a few great films, you are welcome as well!
Rethinking the way we eat
This event will showcase some of the activism around rethinking the way we produce and consume food.
- Urban Farming, one of the sponsors, is an organization that promotes the use of urban spaces to plant gardens. They have developed the concept of vertical farming - “edible” food-producing wall panels mounted on walls of buildings, growing fresh produce (without the use of pesticides).”
- Bascom Catering will be providing free, locally-sourced Vegan lunches.
- Short films from the Bronx will be showcased. As an example, this link shows a shortened version of an urban farming video made at the Point.
- Two feature films will be shown. What’s on Your Plate? and FRESH! What’s on Your Plate? is a documentary that follows two eleven year old NYC girls as they try to figure out how food gets onto their plates. FRESH! focuses on the efforts of activists across the country to “reinvent the food system.”
- An interactive expo will feature groups from the South Bronx and beyond that grow and supply healthy local food, and fight for change in food policy.
Details: This event is free, but there is a $10 suggested contribution. Food/clothing donations are encouraged. Childcare will be provided. For more information, contact: Adam, actionatthepoint@yahoo.com
For more information on local food activism, consult some of our earlier posts on food and nutrition.
posted by Matt Anderson, MD
Add a comment November 24th, 2009 by bronxdoc
The most recent issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved includes an article we wrote on the impact of mass incarceration on the communities we serve in the Bronx:
Shah M, Edmonds-Myles S, Anderson M, Shapiro ME, Chu C. The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Outpatients in the Bronx: A Card Study. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, Volume 20, Number 4, November 2009, pp. 1049-1059.
Here is the abstract of the article.
Objective. We examined the impact of arrest and incarceration on primary care patients in the Bronx, New York.
Methods. Patients at three clinics were asked eight questions concerning current and past involvement in criminal proceedings, arrest, and incarceration.
Results. One hundred eighteen patients were surveyed. Eleven (9%) patients were currently involved in criminal proceedings. Twenty-one (18%) currently had a family member in jail or prison. Twenty-nine (25%) reported ever being arrested; 65 (55%) reported that they or a family member had been arrested. Twenty-one (18%) had been incarcerated; 60 (51%) reported they or a family member had spent time in jail or prison. For most variables, rates were higher for men and the adults accompanying children at pediatric visits. Clinicians reported positive experiences discussing incarceration.
Conclusions. Involvement with the criminal justice system was common among our patients. Discussion of incarceration did not appear to have a negative impact on the clinical relationship.
Comments:
The United States incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world. Last year, the Pew Charitable Trusts estimated that 1 out of every 100 American adults was behind bars. The impact of this policy falls primarily on men, on minorities and on the working class. The term mass incarceration was coined to describe how police targeting of specific neighborhoods (urban, minority, working class) creates communities where a large percentage of the men are in prison or jail. Taken as a whole the Bronx has high rates of arrests and incarceration, although even within the Bronx some neighborhoods are affected more than others. This is well illustrated in a series of maps produced by the Justice Mapping Center.
In our clinical work we have come to appreciate how incarceration affects not just the person imprisoned, but also their family. Ailing grandmothers end up caring for children when Dad goes to jail and Mom has to find a job. Children grow up in a single family home while their spends years in jail. Young boys who are having difficulty in school start playing hooky, get involved with petty crimes, end up incarcerated, and are then socialized by the prison gangs into more severe criminal activity. And just as families are affected by incarceration, so too are their communities.
In this study we tried to assess how common arrest and incarceration were in our patient population. Over the course of a few weeks in the fall of 2008, our clinicians asked patients a few simple questions about incarceration in the course of their clinic sessions. The data was collected in such a way as to protect the anonymity of the respondents. In all we collected data from 118 patients at three clinics. We found that 11 patients (9%) were involved in some type of criminal proceedings at the time of the visit. Twenty-nine (25%) reported that they had been arrested at some time in their life and twenty-one (18%) told us they had spent time in prison. Twelve percent of the families had someone return from jail within the past year. What was particularly concerning to us was that involvement in incarceration and arrest was more common among the adults bringing their children in for care than it was among the adults presenting for themselves.
The card study also brought to light issues that had previously been hidden. One of our residents remarked:
The card study of incarceration brought on an interesting discussion with a patient of mine whose son was imprisoned for many years. She’s a patient I’ve seen several times in clinic but with whom I had never thought to broach this topic.
This data reinforces our sense that mass incarceration has a major negative impact on the families and communities we serve. It suggested to us that knowing about an incarceration or arrest history may help doctors better care for their patients. This also seems to be an area in which doctors can advocate for system-level changes – such as reform of punitive drugs laws, expansion of drug treatment programs, improvements in the school system – that can prevent people from landing in jail.
posted by Matt Anderson, MD
1 Comment August 28th, 2009 by bronxdoc
2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage (let’s not say discovery) up the the river that now bears his name. There will be many celebrations marking this anniversary, but perhaps none as imaginative as the paired conferences organized by the public health communities in Amsterdam and New York City. The first conference was held on April 6th in Amsterdam, the second conference will take place on September 10th in New York. These dates mark Hudson’s departure from Amsterdam and entrance into the Hudson River, respectively.
The joint conferences are entitled the Hudson Year Urban Health Conference in Amsterdam and New York: a Tale of Two Cities in 2009. We have posted the conference brochure at this link. As readers can see there is a social medicine focus to the presentations. Here is a description of the conference from the brochure:
Henry Hudson Year
When Henry Hudson set foot in what would become New York, Amsterdam was already a flourishing city. Trade, culture, and social emancipation were the cornerstones of society. The city thrived because immigrants brought their skills and work. Tolerance for diverse religious and cultural backgrounds was born in Amsterdam and was important for the development of New York. In some ways, New York became what Amsterdam once was. Yet both cities have many vulnerable citizens that need care. In this conference, we will take a closer look at the similarities and differences in how they meet this major challenge.
A Tale of Two Cities in 2009
The Hudson Year Urban Health Conference (HYUHC) is a one-day program planned for Monday, April 6, 2009, in Amsterdam and repeated on Thursday, September 10, 2009, in New York. The Amsterdam site is De Duif, Prinsengracht 756, 1017 LD Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The New York site is Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry, 1051 Riverside Drive, first floor auditorium, New York, NY 10032. The two programs will be largely identical, with a local emphasis for each city. After morning workshops for health experts, afternoon lectures will be open to all persons interested in urban health, followed by a reception. The HYUHC will be organized by the Public Health Service of Amsterdam (GGD) in co-operation with Care and Community Services of Amsterdam (DZS), Columbia University, the Montefiore Hospital of NYC, and the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Themes and Topics
Big cities are inhabited by many groups of marginalized people. The mental illnesses, addiction, and other health problems from which they suffer have an impact on the individual and on society as a whole. Our conference goal is to introduce these problems and to show a broad audience the progress made and the continuing attempts to find solutions. An important purpose is to raise more understanding and tolerance among the people living in these cities. Each afternoon speaker will present a controversial statement to discuss with the audience. At the morning workshops, health experts will meet and share knowledge to strengthen the already existing work relations between New York and Amsterdam.
At both HYUHC sites, the Dutch photographer Annaleen Louwes will present a series of photographs concerning urban health care in Amsterdam and New York. This visual display will highlight the similarities and differences between the two cities. The organization Niet-Normaal, the Netherlands (www.nietnormaal.com), will invite contemporary artists from Amsterdam and New York to enforce the message of this conference by showing video art works.
Two abstracts
To provide readers of the Portal with a sense of the conference’s content, here are two abstracts, one from New York City, the other from Amsterdam:
Chinazo Cunningham, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Title: Sketches from the Bronx–what we see and what we do!
Dr. Cunningham will present two innovative programs that aim to improve access to care among HIV-infected, opioid-addicted, and unstably housed individuals. One program involves close collaboration between an academic medical center and a community-based organization, medical outreach to hotels (that serve as temporary emergency housing), and the delivery of health care outside of traditional medical settings. The other program provides opioid addiction treatment with buprenorphine outside of a traditional drug treatment program. Dr. Cunningham will describe the evolution and sustainability of these programs and present results of program evaluations.
Udi Davidovich, GGD Amsterdam. Public education on HIV/AIDS by the GGD
Online public campaigning for sexual health: the role of Internet interventions, their potential and current achievements. Online prevention interventions have been increasingly used by the Amsterdam Health Services to influence health-seeking behaviour and sexual behaviour among different risk groups for HIV and other STD’s. In this presentation we will discuss the present targets, present achievements and the potential of online interventions. The presentation will be illustrated by three ongoing targeted campaigns: an online intervention for the promotion of safe sex among gay steady partners (in www.mantotman.nl), an online internet intervention for the promotion of safe sex and HIV testing among heterosexual youth: www.vrijlekker.nl, and an internet tool for the facilitation of STD screening among gay men (in www.mantotman.nl).
Further Details:
The New York Conference will take place on September 10th, 2009 at Columbia Presbyterian, 1051 Riverside Drive (& 168th St), Auditorium, first floor, NY, NY 10032. The morning program (small groups sessions) will run from 8:30-12:00 and the afternoon program (lectures) from 2-5:00. A reception will be held from 5-6:30 PM. The cost is free. To register visit this website: www.nynjaetc.org
For more information on the NY400 week and the many planned events, check out the official website.
Posted by Matt Anderson, MD
Add a comment August 3rd, 2009 by bronxdoc
Yesterday we noticed a bumper sticker that read: “Do something radical: Stop hating your body.” It reminded us that World Breastfeeding Week was already two days old. So here is a little catch up with news from around the world and our own back-yard:
In the Bronx…
Breastmilk provides babies an immunologic leg up on life. Breastfed babies are less likely to have diarrhea, respiratory tract infections, otitis media, and other infections. During the first six months, the infection rates are lower for exclusively breastfed than for partially breastfed infants. These benefits are not just for infants in developing countries. Health and survival benefits from breastfeeding are also seen in the United Sates. Encouraging our patients to breastfeed will prevent infectious disease and decrease emergency room and clinic visits.
The Montefiore Breastfeeding Committee seeks to increase exclusive breastfeeding rates on discharge from Weiler and Montefiore North nurseries. Please join us in this effort. Participate in Montefiore Breastfeeding programs during breastfeeding week and throughout the year.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, World Health Organization recommend exclusive breastfeeding until six months of age.
Free breastfeeding continuing education credit for physicians, nurses,
and dieticians is available at: www.breastfeedingtraining.org
From: Dr. Rebecca Williams
… and around the World
Its We the People Who Can Bring Change: Lets ACT NOW!!
World Breastfeeding weeks starts on August 1, (1-7 August). The theme is Breastfeeding, A Vital Emergency Response: Are You Ready?
You can find out more, download materials and find events at: http://www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org/
UNICEF and WHO have made statements in support of the week, which is coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action.
UNICEF’s statement notes: “Around 9 million children under five die every year, largely from preventable causes… According to the Lancet, optimal breastfeeding in the first two years of life, especially exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, can have the single largest impact on child survival of all preventative interventions, with the potential to prevent 12 to 15% of all under age 5 deaths in the developing world… This year’s World Breastfeeding Week provides an opportunity to sensitize policy-makers, donors, implementing partners and the general public to the benefits of breastfeeding, to its particular importance in emergency situations, and to the need to protect and support mothers to breastfeeding during emergencies.”
You can find the full UNICEF and WHO statements via links at:
http://boycottnestle.blogspot.com/2009/07/wbw-2009.htm
It is a government requirement that tins have warnings that breastmilk is best for babies, but Nestlé refuses to translate these into local language, despite requests to do so, because of ‘cost restraints’. It took a Baby Milk Action campaign that led to Mark Thomas highlighting this irresponsible marketing on UK television, to change Nestlé’s minds, and further campaigning to persuade Nestlé to show cup feeding, rather than bottle feeding, in line with government policies. See: http://www.babymilkaction.org/CEM/compfeb00.html
So campaigning works. Now we need to persuade Nestlé to remove the ‘protect’ logo from labels . You can help by sending a message to Nestlé. You will find the information you need to do so on our July Campaign for Ethical Marketing action sheet, which is now available on our website at: http://www.babymilkaction.org/cem/cemjuly09.html
If politicians fulfilled their responsibility to implement the baby food marketing standards adopted by the World Health Assembly, then public campaigns would not be necessary and there would be progress towards stopping the millions of preventable under-5 deaths.
You can help put pressure on politicians by signing the ONE MILLION CAMPAIGN petition. If you have already signed, visit the campaign website to see what action you can take to encourage friends and colleagues to sign up. See: http://www.onemillioncampaign.org
Make an opportunity to call upon companies and your leaders to END ALL KINDS OF PROMOTIONS of Baby Foods by 2015.
2. If you would like to submit the One Million Campaign Petition to your Head of the State, please use the opportunity to do so.
At this link http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/press-release1.aspx you can find the Petition letter, and petition submitted to the President of the World Health Assembly in May 2009.
From: OneMillionCampaign mail@onemillioncampaign.org
Another link http://www.onemillioncampaign.org/doc/draft-letter.doc provides a draft for you to use to write to your Head of State.
Add a comment July 2nd, 2009 by bronxdoc
As a follow-up to our post last month on the Justice is Healing Campaign we were asked by community organizer Minh Ha Nguyen to post this information about free legal services available to Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants living in the Bronx.
CAAAV and NMCIR-Bronx Project have partnered to provide FREE
Immigration Consultation
US Citizenship Application
Low-cost Adjustment of Status
Low-cost Family-based Petitions
Where: CAAAV Office, 2473 Valentine Ave.
(Fordham Rd. at 188th St.), Bronx, NY 10458
(Available by the BX 12 bus)
When: Last Wednesday of every Month
(July: Wed 28th, August: Wed 26th, Sep Wed 30th)
Time: 10 am- 2pm
Email: ylp@caaav.org
Phone: (718) 220-7391 ext.16,
For Vietnamese: Minh-Hà, For Khmer: Chhaya
Please note that if you are at least 50 years old and have lived in the US as a legal permanent resident for 20 years or if you are at least 55 years old and have lived in the US as a legal permanent resident for 15 years you are eligible to take the Citizenship Exam in your native language and the exam is oral – not written
CAAAV kết hợp NMCIR-Bronx Project
cung cấp dịch vụ
FREE- miễn phí
về
Tư vấn Luật Di trú
Hồ sơ xin Nhập Tịch
Hồ sơ xin Thẻ Xanh (lệ phí thấp)
Hồ sơ xin Bảo Lãnh Thân Nhân (lệ phí thấp)
Địa điểm: Văn phòng CAAAV
2473 Valentine Ave.
(Fordham Rd. và 188th St.), bus Bx12
Bronx, NY 10458
Thời gian: Thứ Tư cuối cùng mỗi tháng
(Tháng 7: ngày 29, Tháng 8: ngày 26, Tháng 9: ngày 30)
10:00 sáng – 2:00 chiều
Email: ylp@caaav.org
Phone: (718) 220-7391 ext.16
Tiếng Việt: Minh-Hà Tiếng Khmer: Chhaya
posted by Matt Anderson, MD
Add a comment June 30th, 2009 by bronxdoc
As a follow-up to our earlier post on nutrition in New York City (Feast or Famine) our colleague Renee Shanker sent us an updated list of Farmers’ Markets in the Bronx (see link). For a complete list of farmers’ markets supported by the New York City Department of Health visit this link.
posted by Matt Anderson, MD
2 Comments June 15th, 2009 by bronxdoc
Riker's Island
The June 2009 edition of the American Journal of Public Health contains an article entitled: From Public to Private Care The Historical Trajectory of Medical Services in a New York City Jail” written by Noga Shalev, MD. Dr. Shalev is a graduate of the Residency Program in Social Medicine and this work developed from her 2006 Social Medicine Project. The article describes the evolution of health care services at Riker’s Island.
The Riker’s Island Penitentiary sits in New York City’s East River between Queens and the Bronx, just to west of La Guardia Airport. Riker’s is quite literally an island, connected to the Borough of Queens by a single bridge. It is one of the world’s largest correctional facilities with an average daily census of about 13,000 prisoners. Administratively, the facility houses ten jails that sit on the island and the Vernon C. Bain Center, an 800 person facility located on a barge just off of Hunts Point in the Bronx.
Vernon C. Bain Prison Barge
Dr. Shalev divides the history of health care at Rikers into three periods. From the opening of the prison in 1932 until 1973 medical services were provided by various New York City agencies. During this period numerous reports documented the poor quality of care provided to inmates. It seems clear that the Department of Correction’s concern for security trumped attempts to provide medical care to inmates. As noted in a 1958 report: “The Department of Correction is not now in background, equipment, or personnel capable of giving modern medical care—whether preventative or therapeutic—to the prisoner.”
Attempts to remedy this situation made little progress until the early 1970’s when a series of prison revolts including those at the upstate Attica prison and the Manhattan House of Detention (commonly known as “the Tombs”) led to reforms. This resulted in the second period of medical care at Rikers. From 1973 to 1996 Montefiore Medical Center provided health care under an affiliation agreement with the City. Health care on the island improved and the service was “the first correctional medical program in the country to be accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations” (JCAHO). However this period also coincided with the HIV epidemic and in its wake a resurgence of tuberculosis; prisoners were particularly affected by these twin epidemics. Costs for medical care increased substantially and in 1996 the Giuliani Administration decided to turn health care at the island over to a private contactor. The initial agreement with St. Barnabus Hospital was generally recognized as a failure. Costs did not decrease and there were ongoing concerns about the quality of care. Currently, care on the island is provided by the private, for-profit Prison Health Service, Incorporated. Concerns over costs and quality of care remain. Dr. Shalev characterizes this final period from 1996 to the present as one of “managed care” and the overarching theme of her paper is that health services at Riker’s have moved from public hands (the city) into private hands (for-profit corporations).
Dr. Shalev’s careful historical research, butressed by interviews with Montefiore staff, tell the story of a particular and certainly unique experience in incarceration. But the unique story of Riker’s illustrates the larger themes of how corrections have come to be seen as one more commodity on which profit can be made. And this gives powerful players a vested interests in keeping jails full. The result is a system described by some as a prison-industrial complex, by others as a penal state.
Here is the abstract of Dr. Shalev’s paper:
Over the past 25 years, incarceration rates in the United States have more than tripled. Providing health care services for this growing number of inmates poses immense medical and public health challenges. Focusing on the administrative and financial shifts in health care delivery, I examined the history of medical services in one of the nation’s largest correctional facilities, Rikers Island in New York City. Over time, medical services at Rikers have become increasingly privatized. This trend toward privatization is mirrored nationwide and coincides with the rising prevalence of incarceration.
posted by Matt Anderson, MD
1 Comment June 13th, 2009 by bronxdoc
The following letter is from Chhaya Chhoum one of the organizers of the Justice is Healing campaign, an outgrowth of work by Organizing Asian Communities (formerly the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence):
I want to share some victories we recently had in our Southeast Asian Health Justice Campaign and invite you to a screening of a documentary our Southeast Asian youth made using the theme of justice is healing. Their documentary will be screened as part of the Global Action Project’s end of the year screening on June 18.
We launched the Southeast Asian Health Justice Campaign in 2007 for improved and quality health services at Montefiore Medical Center, a Bronx-based hospital frequented by local Cambodian and Vietnamese refugee communities who continue to suffer from traumas of war and genocide experienced two decades ago from their homelands. Despite the high population of Southeast Asian patients at Montefiore, lack of translation services and cultural competency and the failure of medical staff to link the community’s prevailing health conditions to traumas experienced two decades ago, have led to inadequate provision of health care. Our demands include quality translation services; holistic care that includes alternative treatments, like acupuncture; integration of social services into the health care delivery; cultural competency of medical staff; and increased community outreach and education. Our Southeast Asian youth have been leading this campaign by organizing the community, mobilizing a broad-based support from different sectors, including elected officials, and engaging Montefiore staff for improved health care delivery.
We recently has a victory in the health justice campaign with Montefiore Medical Center hiring a Vietnamese speaking doctor and providing acupuncture free of charge at one of the clinics! While this is a huge victory, we will continue to organize until other important services, such as translation, are implemented. Thank you for all the support that people have given to us that made this victory possible!!
As part of the campaign, three of our youth members participated in the Global Action Project’s documentary making project to document the Southeast Asian community’s health conditions. Please join us in the screening on *June 18, 2009 at 5pm.*
Featuring youth-produced media exploring the impact of racism on self image, the criminalization of immigrant communities, LGBTQ youth responding to hate violence, the work of youth organizers in the Bronx Southeast Asian community and much more!
This event is FREE and open to the community.
Please come support GAP’s youth producers!
5PM – 8PM
JUNE 18, 2009
66 W 12th Street
Tishman Auditorium
at The New School
The Tishman Auditorium is located at 66 W 12th Street, between 5th and 6th Aves
Directions: Take the 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, W to 14th St Union Square, the F, L, V to 6th Ave – 14th St, or the 1,2,3 to 7th Ave – 14 St
RSVP to media@global-action.org <mailto:media@global-action.org>
Also look out for us on these media outlet in the next few months….
Free Speech Radio News, which is broadcast nationally on the Pacifica
network
hyphenmagazine.com/gethyphen
Peace
Chhaya Chhoum
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Chhaya Chhoum
YLP, Program Director
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
2473 Valentine Ave. Bronx, NY 10458
Ph. 718.220.7391 ext. 15
cya@caaav.org
chhaya4178@gmail.com
www.caaav.org
