People's Health Movement – North America
Register for the PHM-USA National Assembly! After a series of meetings in which working groups planned actions for the coming months PHM-USA will hold a national assembly to share out these plans and come together as a movement to chart the way with longtime friends and folks interested to become…
The 5th People’s Health Assembly (PHA5) of the People’s Health Movement will take place in the city of Cali in Colombia. This is the second time that PHA will take place in Latin America after PHA 2 was held in Cuenca, Ecuador in 2005. The tentative dates are 4-8 December 2023. The Assembly will…
Beyond an Extractivist World: Why Imagining and Acting Upon Alternative Modes of Living are Crucial to Saving the Planet from Capitalism PHM Canada is excited to share with you all a working document entitled, Beyond an Extractivist World: Why Imagining and Acting Upon Alternative Modes of Living are Crucial…
Privatization of health and social protections affects us all, from the ever-rising costs of medical care to lack of access to clean drinking water. Across the globe, at local and national levels, those of us who stand for the right to health resist implementation of plans and propose alternatives. The…
PHM Canada fully supports the PHM campaign for the release of Dora María Téllez and the other prisoners of conscience in Nicaragua. The PHM article outlining the campaign can be found here. We are asking members of our organization and allies to share the link above and their stories widely…
PHM Canada has signed on to a joint statement developed by the Council of Canadians calling for the Canadian Government to back Mexico’s plan to phase out GMO corn and the use of glyphosate by 2024. The letter was sent to the Prime Minister of Canada, the Minister of…
Women! Life! Freedom! Look Up!¹ By Tahiri Qurratu’l-‘Ayn Look up! Our dawning day draws its first breath! The world grows light! Our souls begin to glow! No ranting shaykh rules from his pulpit throne. No mosque hawks holiness it does not know. No sham, no pious fraud, no…
PHM Canada has signed on to a joint letter produced by SADAC asking Canadian political leaders to denounce the hoisting of the Saffron flag on Parliament Hill by MP Arya. To view the letter, please click here. Dear Prime Minister, On November 1, MP Chandra Arya, marking Hindu Heritage Month…
PHM Canada has signed on to a joint statement regarding the TRIPS Waiver that calls on WTO member states to rapidly come to agreement on extending the waiver decision, as agreed in Geneva, by the end of this year. The letter was sent to the Canadian Ministers of Trade and…
In light of the events occurring in Ukraine, PHM Canada has put together a statement voicing our support for all of those unfairly involved and affected by the violence. The People’s Health Movement – Canada (PHM-Canada) expressly condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and we stand in solidarity with the peoples…
11 May 2022 We, the members of the People’s Health Movement (PHM), a global network committed to the promotion, protection and fulfilment of Health for All including comprehensive primary health care, sexual and reproductive health care and addressing the social, environmental, and economic determinants of health, are compelled to draw…