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Enroll In HJC’s 2026 Fall political Education Series!

Artwork by haley brown. Black screenprinting and black-and-white photographs on a white background. The central text says, “The future is disabled.” Above this text is a grid of photographs and illustrations. The first photograph in the upper left corner is zoomed in on a handmade poster held by a protester that says, “Hands off our CDB.” Below this photograph is an illustration of a snail. What follows to the right of these images are illustrations of a black circle in the center of a grey gradient, an 8-point star or splat, and a flowering plant. Below the central text is another grid of photographs and illustrations. In the first column on the left are illustrations of an eyeball with a diagonal white line struck through the center of the iris, a flowering plant, and a 7-point star or splat. The next column contains an illustration of the earth as seen from space and a photograph with Brad Lomax and Judy Heumann – two disability rights activists – on a stage before a crowd at a 1970s rally. Both are wheelchair users. The third column has a 1988 photograph from the Deaf President Now! movement in which Gallaudet students led efforts to advocate for appointing the university’s first Deaf president. In the black-and-white photograph, protesters wave colorful flags while doing a banner drop from the balcony of the US Capitol. The banner says, “Deaf President Now!” Below this photograph are illustrations of half of a wheelchair wheel and a snail.

This fall Justice will Join the extraordinary Health Justice Commons team as a facilitator during their Political Education Series! The series will focus on  the Medical Industrial Complex, its impact on people with disabilities and the power of collective care/healing on our own terms.

Enroll today and check out the events page for an in-depth series description as well as  a list of all the phenomenal facilitators, panelists and contributors involved with this offering.

Excerpted from the event page:

What You’ll Learn

  • An in-depth understanding of why we refer to the US and global healthcare system as the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC).
  • How we got here — a deep dive into the MIC’s hidden history with analysis of our current conditions.
  • Medical Apartheid and eugenics, the white supremacist roots and the formation of the MIC.
  • How the MIC is entangled with corporate polluters, big pharma, the military industrial complex and chemical corporations.
  • How the MIC is inherently carceral and overlaps and is complicit with the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC), and how the MIC criminalizes asylum-seeking communities and immigrants, people seeking and providing reproductive healthcare, and youth and adults seeking and/or providing gender-affirming transgender healthcare.
  • How movements such as Disability Justice, Intersex + Trans/Gender Justice and are essential for our collective work to transform the MIC and create community-led alternatives.
  • The 10 principles of Disability Justice as defined by our partner, Sins Invalid, and how to put them into practice in your life and work.
  • Defining collective care and healthcare that truly heals on our own terms and learning tools for disrupting and transforming the MIC that you can practice in your own life, work, and communities.
  • New & updated content for those who participated in prior sessions!

Important Details

  • Enrollment: Click Here
  • WHEN:  Starts Thursday, October 8th and runs through October 29th (four consecutive Thursdays). The time is the same for each Thursday session: 4-6pm PT| 6-8pm CT | 7-9pm ET.
    • Community Action Labs are on Tuesdays: October 13th, 20th, and 27th.
    • The sessions on October 13th and 20th will be from at 4-5:30pm PT | 6-7:30pm CT |7-8:30pm ET.
    • The session on the 27th will be from 4-6pm PT | 6-8pm CT | 7-9pm ET.
  • WHERE: Online via Zoom. Attend from anywhere!
  • COST: $150 – $350 (partial and full scholarships are available). No one turned away for lack of funds. For a list of payment options, please see below. After you complete the enrollment form, you will receive an invite to join our THINKIFIC learning platform and submit payment.
  • SCHOLARSHIP: Full and partial scholarships are available based on participant needs. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. You can request a scholarship on the enrollment form here!
  • ACCESS INFO: All sessions will provide ASL and English <> Spanish interpretation as well as live closed captioning. All sessions will be recorded (with participant permission) for the use of participants. Haitian Creole and other language interpretation available upon request.

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