Doctors Against Genocide and Do No Harm Coalition present an evening of learning and healing together in a time of genocide. Professor of medicine currently suspended at UCSF, physician, musician and author Rupa Marya will host a discussion of the book she co-authored with Raj Patel, Inflamed: Deep Medicine & the Anatomy of Injustice. She will be joined by fellow exiled professors Dr Sang Hea Kil and Rochelle McLaughlin from San Jose State University to discuss the academic repression of women/people of color in this moment of rising fascism in the US.
Throughout the evening, the Kamal Adwan Pop Up Free Clinic for the Treatment of Sickness of Genocide will be staffed by healthcare workers offering peer support, tea and basic care for those who need it in solidarity with Doctors Against Genocide's Washington DC gathering at the Hill to petition our lawmakers to end the genocide in Palestine.
Rupa Marya is a doctor, artist, activist and author, co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, and founder of the Deep Medicine Circle, an organization that works to heal the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, storytelling, restoration and learning. She has toured twenty-nine countries with her band, Rupa and the April Fishes, whose music was described by the legend Gil Scott-Heron as “Liberation Music.”
Sang Hea Kil is a professor in the “Justice” Studies Department at San Jose State University (SJSU). She is currently job suspended for helping her students protest a genocide on her campus. She is a scholar-activist whose research focuses on the criminalization of immigrants, media analysis of the militarization of the border and immigrant bans/exclusions, and the discourse of whiteness and the nation. Her award-winning book is Covering the Border War: How the News Media Create Race, Crime, Nation and the USA-Mexico Divide.
Rochelle McLaughlin taught at SJSU for 20 years until she resigned this December due to SJSU's support for the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine. Rochelle is currently working with Doctors Against Genocide and the Stanford Healthcare Workers for Palestine to continue to organize for a free Palestine.
Doctors Against Genocide is a global coalition of healthcare workers dedicated to succeeding where global governments have failed in confronting and preventing genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Do No Harm Coalition is a national coalition of healthcare workers committed to advancing structural change to address poor health outcomes due to state violence.