People's Health Movement – North America
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…
The People’s Health Hearing sought to bear witness to the public health impacts of extractive industries and created a space to connect people’s struggles, and set out a vision for intersectional, transformative climate justice. It became a space for movement building, connecting health and climate activists across the world and…
PHM Canada has signed onto a solidarity letter for Vanessa Gray who was charged by RCMP in relation to a Wet’suwet’en solidarity rally in Toronto. Vanessa is a very active Indigenous Land Defender and is known by many for her work in Ontario’s chemical valley. To see the full sign…
PHM Canada signed on to the Americas Program joint organizational statement (seen below) on the David Castillo Trial for Murder of Berta Cáceres. David Castillo was a former military intelligence officer and head of DESA, the energy company responsible for the dam project on the Rio Gualcarque that Berta and…
We bring together Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project (EHP) and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) for a discussion about the connections between fracking, plastic production and disposal, and how raising awareness about the harmful health impacts of extractive processes can strengthen local and global struggles for environmental and…
Created in 1976, Saúde em Debate (Health in Debate) aims to disseminate studies, research and reflections that contribute to the debate in the field of collective health, especially those dealing with issues related to policy, planning, management, work and evaluation in health. This Special Issue 1 of 2020 continues this…
In an alliance emerging from work around extractive industries, People’s Health Movement Canada and People’s Health Movement Ecuador/Yasunidos Guapondelig collectives presented an amicus curiae (‘Friend of the Court’ supplementary brief) detailing the health impacts of mining extraction in Quimsacocha, in the southern province of Azuay, to Ecuador’s Constitutional Court. Read…
Our vision is of a world in which equity between and within countries is achieved and health for all is a reality. We reaffirm that health results from social, economic and environmental justice.
We are a group of PHM activists and grassroots organizations representing communities from Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, Sierra Leone, South Africa, United States, and Zimbabwe. We met each other at the PHA3, and shared experiences and strategies to defend and…
PHM-Canada condemns the recent wave of repression against students and civilians perpetrated by the regime of President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, and supports calls for the establishment of an independent inquiry into the violence and for a fully representative and participatory national dialogue. PHM-Canada expresses its solidarity with the people…