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This coming Monday the 23rd at 11 AM, KBOO will air on its HealthWatch program: "4 Advocates Talk about Health Care Reform." The four are Betty Johnson, Mike Huntington, Joe Zaerr and Roberta Hall.

KBOO is at 100.7 FM in Corvallis, 90.7 in Portland, see the KBOO website for other availabilities, including listening live on the Web.

In this half hour session they'll talk about why House Bill 2009 needs to include a public plan offering health care, and a Health Authority, and why innovations at the state level are important.

If you have ever had any problems getting KBOO, be sure your radio has an aerial -- or just attach a wire to the aerial and raise it toward the ceiling (at my house we use a twistie to attach a wire to a plant hook on the ceiling--works great). If you're in the Portland to Salem area, KBOO is at 90.7--it's 100.7 in Albany and Corvallis.

January 15th "Sick Around the World"
Can the U.S. learn anything from other advanced capitalist democracies-United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland-about how to run a health care system?

January 22nd "Big Money/Big Pharma"
How Pharmaceutical Companies, aided by the medical profession, sell new diseases to a gullible public.

January 29th "¡Salud!"
¡Salud! looks at Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems."  From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students studying medicine for free in Cuba.

Please join us for these free Thursday evening programs.

6:30pm  Refreshments
7:00pm Program                    

Lakeside Center of the Mennonite Village
2180 54th Ave. SE
(Between Clay and Davidson)
Albany, Oregon 97322

This is the last film in the series.

January 29th "¡Salud!"
¡Salud! looks at Cuba, a cash-strapped country with what the BBC calls "one of the world's best health systems."  From the shores of Africa to the Americas, !Salud! hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving in 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students studying medicine for free in Cuba.

Please join us for this free Thursday evening program.

6:30pm  Refreshments
7:00pm Program                    

Lakeside Center of the Mennonite Village
2180 54th Ave. SE
(Between Clay and Davidson)
Albany, Oregon 97322

Unnatural Causes is a documentary series that shows how work, wealth, neighborhood conditions, and lack of access to resources and power can make people just as sick as germs and viruses.

Learn how effective social policies and local action can create healthy communities. The Health Equity Alliance invites you to a conversation about health in your community Join them to:

• View the new "Place Matters" episode of the Unnatural Causes series
• Voice your ideas about important health issues facing our community
• Participate in a community assessment & help define priorities for next steps

This event is free and open to the public. Light dinner catered by FireWorks will be served starting at 6:15

Co-sponsored by: Benton County Health Department, Oregon State University Department of Public Health, Strengthening Rural Families, Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center, St. Mary's Catholic Church, Mid-Valley Health Care Advocates, Heart of the Valley Birth Network, Reproductive Health Lab- OSU Department of Anthropology, Linn Benton Hispanic Advisory Committee, Willamette Neighborhood Housing Services, Archimedes Movement- Corvallis Chapter, Community Outreach, Alpine Community Center, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, Life in Focus, CARDV, OSU Extension Service- Family and Community Development, and Community Health Centers of Benton and Linn Counties