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.
Autor: Leigh
Statement of Indian Feminists on the Police Violence that Killed George Floyd
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…
Transformation Needed: The Global Distribution of PPE Must Change
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…
PHM Supports PSI’s Manifesto: No Going Back!
On International Nurses Day, millions of nurses around the world will be calling on governments to make genuine gestures of solidarity and commit to universal public health once and for all.
PHM-USA Endorses the People’s Strike!
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…
PHM-Canada Declaration on COVID-19 Pandemic
In these unprecedented times, members of People’s Health Movement Canada from across Turtle Island came together to reflect on what health justice looks like during the COVID-19 pandemic. We mourn the suffering and immense loss caused by the outbreak, and we hold in honour our allies and colleagues, in China,…
PHM-USA: For a more equitable society, a just response to coronavirus
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…
April 7: International Day of Action for #Health4All
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…
(English) Coronavirus: Collective action necessary to stop an epidemic
from Hesperian Health Guides While individual action is important, it will not stop an epidemic, only collective action will. We have to start acting like the connections among us are not routes to transmit disease, but the channels through which we can defeat it. Coronavirus is all over the news…
Saúde em Debate: Special edition on the People’s Health Movement
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…