PHM-Canada submitted our arguments in late December 2016 to the federal panel reviewing the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act here. We are waiting to hear what the panel’s final recommendations are before deciding how to respond in partnership with a broad swathe of environmental organizers across the country.
Year: 2016
We support the Standing Rock Sioux’s struggle to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
People’s Health Movement Canada salutes the water protectors at the Camp of the Sacred Stone in Sioux territory who have gathered peacefully to prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. In response to this action to protect the health of the land and of the people, United States forces have retaliated…
PHM-USA supports the Standing Rock Sioux’s struggle against extractive practices on their lands
We support the Standing Rock Sioux’s struggle to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hundreds of people, water protectors, have peacefully gathered at the Camp of the Sacred Stone in North Dakota to support the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in protest of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. In response to protests, the…
PHM at the 2016 World Social Forum
PHM friends from across the globe came together during the World Social Forum (WSF) in Montreal, Canada from August 9-14 to show our solidarity with people who struggle for social justice, equality, and human rights across the globe. PHM-North America coordinated the effort to organize a total of six sessions…
A vision for healthy trade
At the 2016 World Social Forum, Health Alliance International, the Health and Trade Network, PHM, and colleagues from across the globe came together to highlight our struggles against unfair and undemocratic trade agreements that threaten our right to health. In an effort to share our alternative view of trade, this…
North America People’s Health Assembly
PHM-Canada and PHM-USA successfully carried out the first ever North America People’s Health Assembly in Montreal on 15 August 2016. Participants from across North America shared an invigorating day with each other discussing issues of common interest, sharing strategies, and developing common health and social justice framings useful for working in alliance…
Mini-IPHU highlights health struggles for Seattle immigrant and refugee communities
Taking up from the model developed by PHM-Canada, PHM-USA held its first “mini-IPHU” in Seattle April 21-22. It was two powerful days of learning, community-building, and organizing for action around the right to health. Over the course of the two days the IPHU had about 45 participants which included members…