Sam Ghali, M.D. Free markets don’t work in healthcare. “Free markets don’t work. We have the most marketized system in the world and we are…gasping for breath. ~Dr. Joe Jarvis, Executive Producer of Healing US (2023) Movie💯🏩🎥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=0F91TM…

The #Starbus dropped into Chicago on July 14 to join partners at the world's LARGEST Starbucks location as they announced filing for unionization with Starbucks Workers United! Chicago Roastery workers are fired up and so are we! #NoContractNoCoffee

What a coincidence! Physicians who treat patients with higher social and clinical risk factors are less likely to be included in the networks of so-called “Medicare Advantage” plans. Wonder why that is? 🤔 #MedicareDisadvantage #SinglePayer

What Generates Attention to Health in Trade Policy-Making? Lessons From Success in #Tobacco Control and Access to #Medicines: A #QualitativeStudy of #Australia and the (Comprehensive and Progressive) Trans-Pacific Partnership ijhpm.com/article_3821.h… doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm…

Looking forward to sharing insights on what strategies have enabled attention to health in trade policymaking from our recent narrative review. This upcoming APHAtrade APHA online webinar will be 25 August 930am AEST - free registration below Australian Research Centre for Health Equity ANURegNet

#TaxTwitter Here are the3⃣options I've summarised from the United Nations Sec Gen's AUGUST 2023 report on international #tax #cooperation. The move away from OECD Tax is gaining traction. What will be the way forward? Tax Justice Network Bsky: @taxjustice.net Tax Justice Network Africa WomenForTaxJustice UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa Cristina Duarte

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The largest banyan tree in America, in the Heart of Lahaina, turned 150 years old this year. Here it is after the #MauiFires. A tragic symbol of the climate emergency and colonial greed

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Competition Commission in SA has just launched an INVESTIGATION into Johnson & Johnson for: 1⃣Excessive pricing on bedaquiline (TB). 2⃣Exclusionary conduct (patent "evergreening"). This is unprecedented & welcomed!

Teach-in on #APEC and Big Tech. Wed Oct 4 5:30pm PT Register: tinyurl.com/no2apecsf Learn about Big Tech’s role in attempting to influence trade policy to the detriment of workers in the United States and the Global South and accelerate the race to the bottom. #no2apec

The Fight to Stop Cop City Won't Stop. My interview with Counterpunch on the long term fight not just against Cop City but fighting the Atlanta Way (read fighting the capitalist way of how business is done) counterpunch.org/2023/09/24/the…

A few months in the making... & now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org

HAI has joined Salud por Derecho, NoGracias & Asociación Acceso Justo al Medicamento in calling on the Spanish Presidency of the 🇪🇺 @eu2023es to explicitly support equitable access to health technologies in the pandemic accord negotiations, including through tech transfer & greater transparency. #EU2023ES

Public health folks: I know that we are not all experts on Israel & Palestine. But we ARE experts on what happens when water & electricity are shut off, when borders are closed, when food & medicine are unattainable. Speak on these things. This is why we study what we studied. 🇵🇸

BREAKING. Mass direct actions are shutting down construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline at two locations. People have swarmed both sites, and a total of four people have locked-down to construction equipment. #NoMVP

Registrations are opened for the inaugural Preventive Mental Health Symposium hosted by PHAA is on Bluesky. A must for people in health promotion, public health and mental health focused on promoting mental wellbeing and preventing mental health conditions. phaa.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebs…

As the 2024 election approaches we're working to protect our democracy by calling on #BigTech to enact robust election protection policies on social media platforms. The spread of misinformation is a dangerous trend that must end NOW. coc.is/BTEL

NEW: We mapped out some of the major weapons' producers and billionaire donors who are profiting from and enabling the current seige of Gaza. These CEOs of the top 5 U.S. defense companies together made $318 million from 2020 to 2022. Full: news.littlesis.org/2023/10/26/cor… 🧵

Here's to a greener, kinder and more loving year 💚

In this thread I will take you back to live the moment and experience what is happening in Sudan. You will be a Sudanese Civilian that woke up the morning of Monday 15th of March 2023. You will see everything like you are there and you would feel it happened. This thread is to