Beyond an Extractivist World

Beyond an Extractivist World

  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…

April 7 2023 – Our Health: Not for sale

April 7 2023 – Our Health: Not for sale

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 Campaign for the release of Dora María Téllez and other prisoners of conscience in Nicaragua

PHM Campaign for the release of Dora María Téllez and other prisoners of conscience in Nicaragua

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…

Call for Canadian support for Mexico’s ban on GMO corn and glyphosate

Call for Canadian support for Mexico’s ban on GMO corn and glyphosate

  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…

PHM Canada Statement in Support of Iranian Social Justice Movements

PHM Canada Statement in Support of Iranian Social Justice Movements

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…

Joint Letter Against Saffron Flag on Parliament Hill

Joint Letter Against Saffron Flag on Parliament Hill

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…

TRIPS Waiver Extension Letters to the Canadian Ministers of Trade and Industry

TRIPS Waiver Extension Letters to the Canadian Ministers of Trade and Industry

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…

PHM Statement on Reproductive Rights & Safe and Legal Abortion in the United States

PHM Statement on Reproductive Rights & Safe and Legal Abortion in the United States

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…