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Dear friends,<br>
I wanted to share with you this update on some of the PHM activities we
are organizing for the US Social Forum later this month. A special
thank you also to David Legge for his support for our group working on
organizing an IPHU to be held at the Social Forum. <br>
Best wishes,<br><br>
Sarah Shannon<br>
PHM USA<br><br>
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<b>PHM activities at the US Social Forum<br>
</b>June 27 - July 1, 2007 Atlanta, GA
<a href="http://www.ussf2007.org">www.ussf2007.org</a> <br>
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People’s Health Movement USA has been very busy organizing Health Justice
activities at the upcoming US Social Forum. We have been taking advantage
of the opportunity to build greater unity of vision and strategy among US
health and health care organizations by jointly planning exciting events
on health justice in the US.<br><br>
Here are some of the highlights:<br>
<br>
<font color="#800000"><b>"Promoting Health for All,"</b></font>
an International People's Health University short course will be held
from June 27-30, <br>
2007, in conjunction with the US Social Forum. Each day of the IPHU
includes two hours of presentations by faculty followed by two hours of
discussion and activities. Afternoons and evenings are free for exploring
the hundreds of workshops and presentations at the US Social Forum and
networking with other leaders and activists.<br>
<b>Topics will include: </b>
<ul>
<li>Healthcare as a human right—not a commodity to be bought or sold
<li>Socio-economic, racial, and gender inequalities as barriers to health
and healthcare within the United States
<li>Connections between health, trade, agriculture, and war
<li>The global movement for equal access to health and healthcare
<li>Practical skills for transforming knowledge into action
</ul>See details and application at
<a href="http://www.phmovement.org/iphu">www.phmovement.org/iphu</a><br>
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<font color="#800000"><b>Workshops and panels PHM has organized or
contributed to:<br>
</b></font>2838 <a href="http://www.ussf2007.org/en/node/2838">Defending
Our Water and Protecting Our Food: Bringing Family Farmers and Water
Rights Advocates Together </a><br>
2841 <a href="http://www.ussf2007.org/en/node/2841">Our Bodies, Our
Water: Our Right to Safe Water and Health</a><br>
3005 <a href="http://www.ussf2007.org/en/node/3005">A human rights
approach to health advocacy and activism</a><br>
3177 <a href="http://www.ussf2007.org/en/node/3177">Health for All: a
people’s vision for health and justice</a><br>
3419 <a href="http://www.ussf2007.org/en/node/3419">Access to essential
medicines: advocating locally and globally</a><br>
3916 <a href="http://www.ussf2007.org/en/node/3916">What Is Social
Medicine?</a><br>
840 <a href="http://www.ussf2007.org/en/node/840">A Peoples’ Healthcare
Truth Hearing</a><br>
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See all the sessions submitted at
<a href="http://www.ussf2007.org/en/submitted_proposals">
http://www.ussf2007.org/en/submitted_proposals</a><br>
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<font color="#800000"><b>Other activities:<br>
</b></font>Wednesday, June 27th - Health organizations will march
together in the opening march.<br>
Thursday, June 28th - Health and Healthcare day in the PPEHRC tent<br>
<font size=2>Thursday, June 28th -- Michael Moore is doing a preview
showing of SICKO, his new film exposing the failures of the US Healthcare
system. <br>
</font>Friday, June 29th, 3pm - "March for Our Lives" to
CocaCola headquarters for the Right to Water<br>
Ongoing - Working with Healthcare NOW, volunteers will take testimonies
from people who have been affected by lack of health care and in favor of
HR 676, the expanded and improved Medicare for all bill sponsored by John
Conyers. Volunteers are also needed for petition signiture gathering for
HR676. <br>
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<font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>Let us know if you are planning to attend
or if you would like to help.</font><font size=4> Contact Zena at
hesperian@hesperian.org</b></font> <br><br>
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Sarah Shannon<br>
Executive Director<br>
Hesperian Foundation <br>
1919 Addison St. #304<br>
Berkeley, CA. 94704<br>
(510) 845-1447 ext. 206<br><br>
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