People's Health Movement – North America
Saving Canadian Health Systems from Privatization: Global Lessons for Local Action! On April 7, marked annually as World Health Day, People’s Health Movement (PHM)-Canada hosted a webinar in collaboration with PHM-Europe on how private capital and financial interests have undermined longstanding universal healthcare systems in England, Belgium, and Sweden.…
The People’s Health Movement – Canada stands in solidarity with activists from the coalition “Panama is Worth More without Mining” (Panama vale mas sin minería) who have taken to the streets to bravely contest the constitutionality of the Panamanian legislature’s October 2023 agreement with First Quantum Minerals Ltd. of Canada.
In May 2023, members of PHM Canada united to write a letter to the Prime Minister of Canada along with the Cabinet Ministers, advocating for the regularization of undocumented people and equal rights for migrant workers and students. To see the letter, continue reading below or click here. PHM Canada…
In May 2023, members of PHM Canada united to write a letter to the Minister of the Environment George Heyman and Minister of Energy Josie Osborne in British Columbia, as well as other government representatives, supporting Unist’ot’en resistances to the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline. To see the letter, continue reading below…
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…
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…