People's Health Movement – North America
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…
This year is the 20th anniversary of the People’s Health Movement! To celebrate, PHM-USA is working to document the many experiences of PHM friends and partners from across the globe. From our beginnings rooted in the call of “Health for All” in the Declaration of Alma-Ata to…
PHM’s 2019 Annual Report highlights campaigns, movement building, capacity building and continued advocacy around a robust political economy-based critical analysis of health across all regions. Download the report here. PHM’s struggle for health is both more necessary than ever but also more of an uphill battle than ever.
We take care of each other and take to the streets to demand dignity and health without fear. We take to the streets in a state of emergency. These guidelines were produced for demonstrations in Ecuador, but are useful everywhere.
Issued by members of FeministsIndia, an online India-based collective comprising over 750 individuals and groups We, feminists in India, strongly condemn the murder of George Floyd, an African-American, by a white officer of the Minneapolis Police Department, and express our deep solidarity with the people’s resistance against police violence presently…
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…
Many systems have failed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, putting people’s health at serious risk. The increased demand from PPE from workers and the public made clear the inadequacy of the global distribution system of PPE. The fallout has lead to shortages of PPE that heighten health risks…
Fighting for our lives, forging our future. In order to avoid the needless deaths of millions of people and keep corporations and authoritarian governments from stealing our collective future, working and oppressed peoples need to stand together in solidarity, mutual aid, cooperation and joint action. Together we can build a…
Every day in the United States, the coronavirus continues to spread. Even for the strongest of health systems, this health crisis would present a multitude of challenges. But in the US, where healthcare is primarily delivered by profit hungry conglomerates and there is a lack of investment in preventive and…
In 1950, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared April 7 World Health Day to raise awareness about important health issues such as mental health, maternal and child care, and climate change. For the past five years, however, the European Network Against the Commercialisation and Privatisation of Health and Social Protection…