PHA-Exchange> Communications in preparation for PHA II

[claudio at hcmc.netnam.vn]

Dear Friends,

I thought it to be important at this time to call upon everybody in the list to 
actively use pha-exchange at kabissa.org, [your list!], for a period of growing 
communications on all aspects related to PHA II. Remember that you can post 
directly to this address without sending material to me to post for you; I see 
postings anyway, because as a moderator,I approve all that goes out. 

I especially ask the PHA II organizing committee to post frequently to keep up 
the interest of our membership: post all new developments that you think the 
close to 800 of us in the list will be interested to know on the road to Cuenca 
2005.

I specifically call on the Secretariat to post a fortnightly column to share 
with us what is happening in the Secretariat. We all need to know. I am
 sure, also, the Secretariat wants to ask us to get involved in things more 
actively: well, the pha-exchange is the vehicle!

In the months to come, several core papers in preparation of PHA II will be 
drafted and circulated for feedback. We need to arrive in Cuenca with documents 
that participants have seen and participated-in in the months before the 
assembly: the pha-exchange will be the vehicle. 

I furhter call upon the organizers to schedule one workshop for each of the 
core papers that we finally decide to make the official preparatory documents 
of the assembly. In this way we will have a final version sanctioned by our 
members much the same way we arrived at the final version of the People's 
Health Charter.

I also call upon the Secretariat and the organizers to invite stretegic allies 
on anti-globalization topics other than in the realm of health. We all know 
that health plays itself out in the context of a system that is sick, so PHA II 
has to actively create/strengthen these linkages with other networks. Also 
here, special workshops have to be put in the program where these special 
invitees will be panelists.PHA II should put health more where it belongs: in 
the anti-globalization movement.

Reactions to these suggestions will be a good start to our closer interaction.

In solidarity,

Claudio




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