Join King County Executive Ron Sims for a Community Town Hall Meeting
on "Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality making us Sick?"

Thursday, March 13, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Seattle Central Library
1000 Fourth Ave.
Seattle, WA 98104


This is an opportunity to speak up and join others in working towards
equity and social justice! The program includes a showing of the
provocative new PBS series, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

Panelists:
Dr. Ben Danielson, Medical Director, Odessa Brown Childrens Clinic
Emma Medicine White Crow, Vice Chair to the Governor's Interagency
Council on Health Disparities
Dr. Ed Taylor, Vice Provost & Dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs,
University of Washington

The King County Equity and Social Justice Initiative aims to end
persistent local inequities and injustices that result
in, among other things, higher rates of disease among low-income
populations and disproportionate rates of young
black men in jail.

For more information and the new Equity and Social Justice Initiative
report, visit: www.kingcounty.gov/equity

Event co-sponsors: Advisory Council for the African American Elders
Program, African Americans Reach and Teach Health Ministry, Austin
Foundation, Bike Works, Casey Family Programs, Center for MultiCultural
Health, Childrens Regional Hospital and Medical Center, Community
Coalition for Environmental Justice, Community Health Centers of King
County, Community School Collaborative, Cross Cultural Health Care
Program, Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition, Entre Hermanos, Environmental
Coalition of South Seattle, Feet First, Harborview Injury Prevention and
Research Center, Healthy and Active Rainier Valley, HIV/AIDS Planning
Council, Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Seattle, International
Community Health Services, Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration, Region
4 DSHS, King County, King County Children and Family Commission, King
County Health Action Plan, King County Steps to Health, Molina Healthcare
of Washington, New Futures, Northwest Infant Survival Alliance - SIDS
Foundation of Washington, NOW IS Fitness Center, Puget Sound Neighborhood
Health Centers, REACH Coalition, Transportation Choices, Washington Health
Foundation, Washington State Hospital Association, World Population Forum,
YMCA of Greater Seattle, YouthCare, YWCA of Seattle-King-Snohomish County

"It is unacceptable that the color of your skin or your home address are
good predictors of whether you will have a low birth weight baby, die from
diabetes or your children will graduate from high school or end up in
jail. -- King County Executive Ron Sims