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28 People’s Health Movement activists participated in the 1st PHM USA National Meeting held July 28th and 29th in Los Angeles. We discussed what PHM is and what it means to endorse the People’s Charter for Health and to be a part of the movement. Drawing upon the results of the membership survey conducted before the meeting, and attendees’ current political work, we developed four issue areas in which PHM US will focus its domestic movement building activities.
 

PHM USA has a double mission: working for health for all in the United States, where great socioeconomic inequality causes terrible disparities in health status and many social problems; and at the same time advocating for fairness in the policies of the US government and US based multinational corporations, many of which undermine health around the world. Some of the most devastating impacts are due to: