Healthcare institutions are local and anchored in the communities. We need to building power and partnership with community to transform healthcare institutions to be more just and accountable to it’s people.

Healthcare professionals are at the intersection of having resources and being resourceful. Many of them are sharing the lived experience of their communities, but at the same time have access to more resources (potential)

The most common approach to activism among healthcare providers is a “lone-wolf” model.  Lone-Wolf model doesn’t depend on building relationships and solidarity with communities or other health professionals. The result is even more isolation and sense of powerlessness.

Our healers and caregivers deserve the wisdom and benefit of the long tradition of relational organizing and activism.