Thanks Anant for your insightful thoughts
Milestones in People Health Movement MFC.ppt
, . Please see the attached Milestones of Peoples Health Movement presented at the MFC 50th Anniversary
Ekbal
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On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 at 20:45, V R Raman, National Convener PHRN <weareraman@phrnindia.org> wrote:
Thanks Anant for this note.
Best,
Raman
On Sun, 15 Dec, 2024, 20:13 Anant Phadke, <anant.phadke@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
About 100 activists attended this online meeting and about a dozen people spoke. At the end about 50 were there. As one of the co-founders, some of us were to share our ideas in about 5-7 minutes about the JSA's journey. Since many people who spoke before me had covered the initial period of the journey, I shared my ideas about a very brief overview of JSA. It is attached/pasted herewith.
TY
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Anant Phadke
24 Years of JSA- Looking Back, Looking Forward
Anant Phadke
1) In the year 2000, all of us i.e. health organizations working on issues of health care as well as social organizations working on issues of social determinants of health came together at the state and national level to form the National Coalition, Jan Swasthya Abhiyaan. This was done through a process of social mobilization across India in the form of Jathas, conventions etc. We belonged to very diverse socio-political backgrounds from different parts of India. We also contributed to the Global process of coming together of people’s health groups.
This was big step forward.
2) Together we formed the 20 point People’s Health Charter from the rights based perspective. This JSA-charter included all the major policy-demands regarding radical improvements in health care and also in social determinants of health.
3) Taking note of the political economy of health-care, privatization, corporatization of health care under the rule of finance capital, we have been demanding radically strengthened Public Health Services along with it’s direct accountability to the people. Secondly we have been demanding regulation of private health care through a dedicated, transparent and accountable regulatory structure. This goes far beyond the defunct, bureaucratized CEA which has been enacted in some states.
4) All the above demands that we have been making ask for changes in the government policies and are thus political demands. Secondly, like say the demand for education for all, these demands regarding Health Care for all represent all the common interests of all common people. Hence they have a different, special political potential compared to say the sectional demands of say farmers, or say transport workers or say agricultural workers etc.
5) The above are very positive features of our work. However we have remained largely an advocacy coalition. We have been People’s spokes persons on health care and social determinants of health. We have been presenting our demands, our criticisms, and concerns in various ways to influence public opinion. We have been raising awareness among people about these policy-changes. We have been using spaces available in the media, in the political spaces to influence certain bureaucrats, certain politicians. But we have not been able to launch a powerful mass movement which forces the government to change it’s policies.
We started with a big bang. However, we have remained primarily an advocacy coalition. Going beyond this, unless we have mass awareness programmes, mass signature campaigns, innovative forms of mass protests, our 20 point charter would continue to have very limited influence. We cannot merely say that this is the work of the pro-people political parties. They are not sufficiently clear about the need of such mass political health movement and do not have the strength to undertake this work. We have to take initiative and we have to ourselves contribute to the work of raising awareness of people around these political demands. Situation is becoming from bad to worse. From the side of health-politics, we need to strengthen the mass political health work to add strength to the pro-people politics.
6) Do we agree that we need to move forward beyond primarily awareness and advocacy work and try to build a powerful mass movement? Say around the demand of including health care in the fundamental rights in the constitution? If yes, what changes will have to be made within us? I think that we need to discuss this. While being proud of our work that we have done in last 24 years, we need to be aware of it’s limitations and decide to make progress. Otherwise we will continue to have a very limited influence and our slogan – Health care for All and Health for All would continue to be distant dream.
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On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 at 23:18, Ameerkhan <ameer@sochara.org> wrote:
Dear JSA NCC members
Greetings from JSA Secretariat !
On this day of 01st December 2024 We are happy to share the poster marking the beginning of the 25th year of JSA. On the same day of December 2000 JSA friends and comrades gathered in Kolkata and began the journey as JSA and the struggle for Health for All is continuing. On this day we remember and thank all the founding members of JSA; seniors and current members and friends who continued to shoulder the responsibility of taking forward JSA's objective of Health for All.
In the coming days we plan to have a series of webinars and activities at the national level and at the state and district levels for the 25th year of JSA.
Thanks for all your support and cooperation.
with regards
Ameerkhan; Abhay;Richa;Indranil and Chhaya
onbehlaf of the JSA national secretariat
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