Working for Health for ALL: health justice activities at the USSF

The People's Health Movement (PHM) is a global coalition of grassroots organizations working for the right to health and challenging the prevailing system of health care delivery that is failing to serve most of the poor worldwide. The People's Health Movement - USA Circle (www.phm-usa.org) is organizing various outreach activities as a way to build awareness of and support for the Right to Health in our country. As the US chapter of a global organization we also must take advantage of our location in the United States to carry out activities focused on support for the international movement. Below are listed workshops that we recommend you partake in, marches that we suggest you add your energy to, and places we all should definitely visit during the US Social Forum.

panels & workshops to attend

International People's Health University
Wednesday, June 27, 9 am-1 pm, room 1204, 12th floor of the Westin Peachtree
Thursday, June 28 through Saturday, June 30, 1 pm-5:30 pm, Trinity United Methodist Church, Fellowship Hall

The International People's Health University (IPHU) was created by the People's Health Movement to offer short courses (four days to one week) and other educational resources on issues of health and equality. Participants in IPHU courses examine the connections between politics, economics, and health, to develop a broader understanding of the current barriers to equal healthcare access and the challenge of achieving health for all. Each day of the IPHU includes two hours of presentations by faculty followed by two hours of discussion and activities.

Sicko Health Reform: Fake 'Universal' Health Plans in Your State
Thursday, June 28, 10:30am, Georgia Ballroom West, Renaissance Atlanta Hotel Downtown

They Left Us Here to Die: Hurricane Katrina, Ethnic Cleansing, Neo-Liberalism and Disaster Capitalism in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Thursday, June 28, 10:30 am, Westin Hotel, Atlanta Ballroom E Room

Our Bodies, Our Water: Our Right to Safe Water and Health
Thursday, June 28, 10:30am, Atlanta Marriott Downtown, Socrates room

Drug Court: An Alternative to Prison with Liberating Potential
June 28 at 10:30 at the Westin Hotel International E Room

Closing the Chasm between Social Justice and HIV
Thursday, June 28, 10:30am; room 590 West at the Renaissance Hotel

You Can't Kill the Spirit: Solidarity Organizing in the Movement to Rebuild New Orleans with Catalyst Project
Thursday, June 28th, 1 pm, Westin Hotel, Room 1402

Youth and Student Action on AIDS: Activism for Treatment from S. Carolina to South Africa
Thursday, June 28th, 1pm, room 590 West at the Renaissance Hotel

Harm Reduction in the Social justice Movement: Moving from Thought to Action
Thursday, June 28th, 1pm, Balcony Left Room at the Atlanta Civic Center

The Security and Prosperity Partnership -- NAFTA on Steroids
Thursday June 28, 3:30 PM, 4 hour session, Auburn Avenue Research Library, Auditorium - 4th Floor

Got Thirst? Challenging Corporate Control of Our Water
Thursday June 28, 3:30 PM, Westin Hotel, Room 1205

Violence Against Women and HIV & AIDS in Nepal, Puerto Rico, South Africa and the USA: Building a Solidarity and Action Agenda Between Women in the Global South and Women of Color in the US
Thursday, June 28th, 3:30pm, Olympic B Room at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel

The Organic Internet - Model for a Just World and Major Step in Creating One
Friday, June 29, 10:30am, Westin Hotel, Atlanta Ballroom G

It's our Future! Students and Youth for Water Justice
Friday June 29, 10:30 AM, Atlanta Marriott Downtown, Olympic A room

The Right to Health: a panel discussion by the Liberation Health Movement
June 29 at 10:30 at the Atlanta Marriott, Zena Room, sponsored by the Boston Liberation Health Group and Dawn Martinez

Defending Our Water and Protecting Our Food: Bringing Family Farmers and Water Rights Advocates Together
June 29, 10:30am, Atlanta Marriott Downtown, Apollo room

Health for All: A People's Vision for Health and Justice
Friday, June 29, 1-3pm Civic Center, Auditorium back left.
This workshop will include panel presentations and participatory activities to explore a vision of Health for All that we can achieve in the United States, and the rest of the world.

Black Women Internationalists Speak Out!
Friday, June 29, 1-3pm, Westin Hotel, Room 1404

Blue October: Planning an International Month of Action on Water
Friday June 29, 1:00pm, Renaissance Atlanta Hotel, 590 West

International Campaign Against Coca-Cola
Friday June 29, 1:00pm, Atlanta Marriott, Centennial Ballroom A

The Future of the Black Liberation Movement: Katrina and the Gulf Coast, the Black Belt South, & the Black Nation
Friday, June 29, 1 pm, Westin Hotel, Atlanta Ballroom G

Can we have Healthy People without a Healthy System?
Friday, June 29, 3:30-5:30pm, Westin Hotel, Room 1404*

Water for People, Not for Profit! Grassroots Activists tell their Victory Stories
Fri., June 29, 3:30-5:30pm, Atlanta Marriott Downtown, Mediterranean

What Is Social Medicine?
Saturday June 30, 10:30am, Trinity United Methodist Church, Sunshine Classroom

Trading Water, Trading Democracy
June 30, 10:30 AM, Trinity United Methodist Church, Library room

Access to essential medicines advocating locally and globally
June 30, 1 pm, Renaissance Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta Ballroom D

A Peoples Healthcare Truth Hearing
June 30, 1 pm, Renaissance Atlanta Hotel, Georgia Ballroom West

Challenging US Policies that Promote Water Privatization at Home and Abroad
June 30, 1pm, Renaissance Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta Ballroom C

join a march! see a movie!
March for economic & human rights. "Another World Is Possible, Another US is Necessary - Stop the War Abroad and At Home". The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign will lead this march from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historical Center to Headquarters of Coca-Cola on Friday, June 29th at 3pm EST
March to demand action on AIDS treatment & prevention
Friday, June 29, 12:45pm. Meet at the Media Center (Civic Center 2nd floor dressing room)
“Ground Truth,” a documentary film showing sponsored by Doctors for Global Health, is
about the US soldiers who are fighting a war: why they went, what they saw, and how they feel when they come back. Saturday June 30 at 10am at the Seven Stages Theatre.

places to visit
Praxis Project information table in the Civic Center
Right to Water Tent, located at the Side Civic Center Plaza. Meet in the tent at 9 AM each morning to learn about water discussions, cultural activities & volunteer opportunities
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign tent by the Civic Center and PPEHRC's 'Bushville' Tent City that will be the location of daily teach-ins, panels, workshops, and performances. The 'Bushville' will also highlight the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, specifically the Right to Water and the Right to Health as a statement addressing the health care crisis in the US and the health ramifications of living without access to clean water.
The Healing, Health and Environmental Justice Tent: Healing practitioners will be sharing their knowledge and guide Forum participants in reflective, healing, and meditation practices. Organizations, Networks and Alliances will be sharing their work and testimonials related to healing arts, healthcare, and environmental justice.
1) Thursday June 28, 1-5pm, Testimonials on Health & Environmental Injustice & Collective Vision for a New Health System
2) Friday June 29, 10am Opening Ceremony, including a tribute to Damu Smith

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