From: <b class="gmail_sendername">PHM Global Secretariat</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:globalsecretariat@phmovement.org">globalsecretariat@phmovement.org</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div dir="ltr">
<h1 style="text-align:center" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB">Cape Town Call to Action</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,102)"><a href="http://www.phmovement.org/sites/www.phmovement.org/files/Call%20to%20Action%20FINAL_0.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)"><span style>CLICK HERE</span></span></a> </span></font>for the full version of the CAPE TOWN CALL TO ACTION - Please spread wide and far!</b><br>
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</span></p><p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">We reaffirm our commitment to the People’s
Charter for Health and to the Cuenca Declaration, which are the foundational
documents to this Call to Action. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>This
Call to Action will guide our work until the Fourth People’s Health Assembly. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>Our
health has been devastated by neoliberal policies that are the hallmark of
present day capitalism. The global health crisis is a consequence of the
failure to address the social, political and environmental determination of
health. The current capitalist crisis has several inter-related dimensions,
among them: political, food, economic, financial and ecological. Its roots lie
in the</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">neoliberal model of globalisation.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>The
response of national and international institutions, to the current financial
crisis, has been merely to ‘restore the confidence’ of the same institutions
and financial markets that caused the crisis in the first place. Governments
have enacted an ‘austerity agenda’ – cutting health and social spending -
effectively deepening and reinforcing the very neoliberal economic model the
crisis had so discredited, and handing even more power to finance capital. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span>There
is a need to redesign our political culture and our institutions, both
nationally and globally; to create relations based on solidarity; and to put in
place the mechanisms of accountability needed to run the global political,
economic and social structures in a manner that is just, equitable and
sustainable. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">Our
Alternate Vision:</span></b></p>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">A reformed
economic system that values every individual, not every dollar;</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">Just, fair
and democratic political and economic processes and institutions; </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">Better and
transformed global heath governance that is free from corporate influence and
the influence of unaccountable private actors; </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">Equitable
Public Health Systems that are universal, integrated and comprehensive, as well
as provide a platform for appropriate action on social determination of health.
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">What is to
be Done:</span></b></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">No change will happen without the
mobilization of the people through the building of social and political power
amongst people and communities. We commit ourselves to building alliances with
others who seek progressive and transformative change. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">We leave Cape Town determined to: </span></p>
<ul><li><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">set up new
PHM circles </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">energise,
broaden and deepen the work of existing PHM country circles </span></li><li><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB"><span>·<span style="font:7pt/normal "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">strengthen
and develop the thematic circles of the PHM. </span></li></ul>
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">We leave Cape Town committed to: </span></p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">creating and communicating alternative visions,
analyses, discourses and evidence; </span></li><li style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">actively support and facilitate a range of
campaigns. </span></li></ul>
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">We will continue and expand our global
work around existing global programmes – suitably redesigned wherever
necessary, namely:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc"><li style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">the Right to health campaign;</span></li>
<li style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">the International Peoples Health University;</span></li><li style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">the Global Health Watch; </span></li><li style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">the Democratising Global Health; WHO Watch and
Supporting the Restitution of the WHO. </span></li></ul>
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<p style="text-align:justify" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-GB">We further commit ourselves to expand our
global Right to Health campaign, a campaign that will be globally co-ordinated,
but locally owned and driven. </span></p><br clear="all">--<br>Global Secretariat<br>People's Health Movement (PHM)<br>Email: <a href="mailto:globalsecretariat@phmovement.org" target="_blank">globalsecretariat@phmovement.org</a><br>
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