As Congress negotiates funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) PHM-USA joined more than 430 national, state, and local organizations in calling on representatives to enact oversight on ICE through incorporating protections under the proposed Protecting Sensitive Locations Act into DHS spending legislation. From the Center for Law and…
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PHM-NA Mapping Project Joins Call for IFC to End Healthcare Funding through Private Equity
The PHM-North America’s Mapping Privatisation Project joined 60 organizations and experts to demand that the World Bank Board investigate its International Finance Corporation (IFC)-funded hospitals implicated in denying emergency care, detaining patients, and exploiting staff. While the World Bank’s stated mission is to fight poverty, the IFC is funding high-end…
Open Session of the 2025 Steering Council Meeting
The People’s Health Movement invites active members of the PHM in national circles, regional circles, and global programs to participate in an open session of the 2025 Governing Council meeting. The open session will take place on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 12:00 UTC (4:00 am PT/7:00 am ET). Interpretation…
Day of Action to Demand a #PeoplesVaccine
On Monday 14 December, we target Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca with demands that they share their vaccines with the world. Call, email and tweet the CEOs of these companies to demand that they join the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Covid-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP). Take action on December 14th to…
PHM Calls for Urgent Action on Covid-19 technologies
14 October 2020 Statement by People’s Health Movement: Urgent Call for Action on Covid-19 technologies The People’s Health Movement supports the call by the Governments of India and South Africa for the World Trade Organization to waive certain provisions of the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement so as to enable countries to…
APHA 2020 Annual Meeting: PHM-NA Recommended Sessions & Activities
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s APHA Annual Meeting & Expo is going virtual! But many PHM-NA activists and affiliated organizations will again be at this year’s Meeting to discuss the pressing challenges we face across the globe that threaten the right to health. Below, you can find a list of…
Campaign Launch: Global Cooperation to End the Pandemic
PHM-USA joins Justice is Global and other partners to call for global cooperation to end the pandemic. We can stop the suffering and the disruptions to people’s lives and our economies due to COVID-19, but we need countries around the world to work together to make that happen. Government leaders…
PHM unmasks the problem: Mask brigades unite with their communities
PHM-NA interviewed activists in Saskatchewan and Washington state who were part of mask brigades which worked to get PPE to those who needed it most as the COVID-19 pandemic began.
PHM Canada 2020 National Meeting
Members of PHM Canada met on 29 June to plan for the year ahead. The pandemic reinforced the need for us to reorganise our structures to be able to respond better to the workload, and we spent some time rethinking ways to move ahead. This conversation about our internal organisation…
Mask brigades fill gaps amid state failures during COVID-19 crisis
Casey Adams Mask brigades have sprung up across the country and around the world in response to the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) shortage. The Seattle Mask Brigade was among the first to form in mid-March, and since then countless others have formed, many of which operate on a similar model.…