<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sulakshana Nandi</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:sulakshana@phmovement.org">sulakshana@phmovement.org</a>><span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">\</span></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div>The People's Health Movement has developed three short films with support from the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2022. We organised a launch event earlier this week that went off very well with over 170 participants. We have received a lot of positive feedback and a request for links to the videos. </div><div><br></div><div>The videos contain voices and experiences from Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Philippines, India and more. Community health workers from India, Philippines and Malawi, Jayati Ghosh, Ana Quiros, Walden Bello, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Agnes Binagwaho, Tim Jackson, Eduardo Espinoza, Hugo Icu, Delen De La Paz, Sarojini N, Ronald Labonte and many others from PHM have been interviewed.</div><div><br><div>Please find below brief introductions and youtube links to the three videos. Feel free to circulate and use these videos widely. </div><div><br></div><div>with best wishes<br></div><div><br></div><div>Fran and Sulakshana</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"" align="center"><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">The World We Want: Actions Towards a Sustainable, Fairer,
and Healthier Society</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"" align="center"><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">A Short-film Trilogy, produced by People’s Health Movement (PHM),
supported by Prince Mahidol Award Conference, 2022</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">I. Building Equitable Health
Systems:</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">The first film records the voices of community health workers and
health care professionals and health rights activists from across the globe, on
the learning’s from the COVID pandemic for the design of healthcare systems. One
of the main reasons behind the current crisis in healthcare has been the
failure of the mainstream global community to call for and provide assistance
to strengthening public sector service delivery. This has been made more
evident during the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">In this video we analyse the implications of chronic public underinvestment
in the public health sector, the active promotion of the for-profit private
sector and accelerated commercialization of healthcare, particularly for those face
historical marginalization and who bore the brunt of exposure, infection,
morbidity and death due to COVID.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">The testimonies reiterate the need for community-centred health
services where equity and solidarity are central principles. Building on PHM’s
vision for Health For All, we discuss alternatives to the dominant market-oriented
discourse and privatization of healthcare. We present lessons, principles and
strategies for building strong and equitable public/government health systems
that promote social justice and human rights and put people over profit. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Building back better, requires us to conceptualize all of
healthcare, and not only vaccines, as a global public good - something we never
will be able to expect from the current market based models of healthcare.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Webcast I: <a href="https://youtu.be/otHKAR3mmPE" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://youtu.be/otHKAR3mmPE</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">II. Rethinking
the SDGs.… in the Pandemic Aftermath…</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">The second film shines a spotlight on the Sustainable
Development Goals - in what political economic context and what unequal power
relations they arose and have continued to perpetuate. This video contains
perspectives from Professor Anne-Emmanual Birn, University of Toronto who is
also a PHM activist in Canada, Professor Agnes Binagwato Vice Chancellor of the
University of Global Health Equity, Dr. Delen de la Paz a PHM activist from the
Philippines, Dr. Hugo Icu PHM, Guatemala and Dr. Sarojini Nadimpally, SAMA and
PHM India. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated existing
inequities both within countries and between countries. Its impact threatens
progress on the SDGs. During the pandemic COP26 was held but made little
progress in establishing a sustainable base for the planet and in curbing the
production of carbon. The multiple
crises faced are out of control climate change, rapidly growing inequities,
rampant capitalist behaviour by governments and Transnational
Corporations. While the SDGs were an
improvement on their predecessor by foregrounding equity, it has been obvious
that the aims and aspirations they represent cannot be achieved in the current
paradigm. They also do not deal with the central contradiction of advocating
more economic growth and with it consumption that will make the pressures on
our planet greater. This contradiction existed before Covid-19 and now is more
evident. Nations - particularly of the majority world or Global South - must
claim their power and exercise their imaginations, learning from each other
where needed and charting their own course. We must also rethink the current
global economic model within which we operate - using models like Buen Vivir
and Gross National Happiness and strategies like dismantling of extractive
industrial power, tax justice and economic redistribution, as well as a focus
on planetary well being.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Webcast II: <a href="https://youtu.be/6pPA8w2yJQc" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://youtu.be/6pPA8w2yJQc</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">III. Post-Pandemic Global Economics-
Re-structure, Reform or just Re-vitalize</span></b><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">The third film delves into the
hegemonic, extractive and grossly unequal economic model, which prevails today.
It underscores the need for a transformative shift that would avoid
unsustainable and inequitable consumption of finite ecological resources and
redistribute power, wealth, and bring in a new economic order premised on
fairness and justice that would ensure human survival. When the COVID-19
pandemic arrived in 2020, it quickly collapsed global supply chains and depressed
economic activity worldwide. National economies that were still struggling in
the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis were thrown in disarray.
Almost immediately there was talk of the need for a post-COVID ‘great reset’,
of governments committing to ‘build back better’ and to ensure a ‘green
recovery’. Although pandemic-weary people might crave for what they consider to
be a return to normalcy, our economic policies cannot simply default to a
business-as-usual. The pre-pandemic economy was already creating massive wealth
inequalities, accelerating climate change, and fomenting mass migrations of
people fleeing poverty, drought, or conflict; all of which only worsened with
the pandemic. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Are any of the new policy playbooks
arising from the economic chaos of the pandemic sufficient to ensure equity in
people’s access to the resources needed for health? Or are more radical
measures needed to improve health equity globally while ensuring ecosystem
sustainability? Are such eco-just measures even compatible with capitalism,
however reformed this centuries’ old system may become? These are some of the
questions Ronald Labonte put to three economists who have been thinking
critically about such issues for some time: Tim Jackson, Walden Bello, and Jayati
Ghosh. Two points they make abundantly clear:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">1) We do not need the level or form
of economic growth that brought us COVID-19.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">2) We do need a different vision of
the role of governments in ensuring that our economies work to improve the
health and well-being of all, and to protect our environmental commons. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">They explain this in the third
webcast on “post-pandemic global economics”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Bookman Old Style","serif"">Webcast III: <a href="https://youtu.be/DosIdxMob_0" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://youtu.be/DosIdxMob_0</span></a></span></p><div>--<br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Website: <a href="https://phmovement.org" target="_blank">https://phmovement.org</a> <br>Twitter: @PHMglobal <br>Facebook: @peopleshealthmovement<br></div></div></div></div>
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