Guest Speaker + Phone Zap – Jan 22, 7 p.m.
Start: 2025-01-22 19:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
End: 2025-01-22 20:00:00 UTC Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP
Host Contact Info: waterlooforpalestine@gmail.com
Guest speaker
As part of our Phone Zap + Speaker Series, come hear Yipeng Ge, a primary care physician and public health practitioner, speak about his visits to Palestine, and and the importance of ending Canadian complicity and active support/involvement in the ongoing genocide in Gaza - and how institutions like the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) are complicit as well!
Phone zap
Following Yipeng's talk we will take action together by calling our MPs to demand they support a full arms embargo on Israel! Scripts and email templates will be provided and facilitators will be present to support you. No prior experience needed. You'll receive an email confirmation for the Zoom link to join. If you don't see it in your inbox, check your spam folder!
About the speaker
Dr. Yipeng Ge is a primary care physician and public health practitioner based on the traditional, unceded, and unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. In his clinical practice, he works in family medicine practice and refugee health at a community health centre. He has worked on and studied the structural and colonial determinants of health in both the settler colonial contexts of so-called Canada and occupied Palestine.