While the World is in Turmoil, the People’s Health Movement calls for Hope, Optimism, Resistance, Solidarity and Peace
The Steering Council of the People’s Health Movement (PHM) met on February 26-28, 2025, that took place in
Promoting Ancestral Knowledge and Practices
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A Mapuche family is uprooted from their ancestral land by a nexus of political power and private industry.
One night, a Mapuche man is killed by hired agitators. His daughter Lucia, her mother and the entire community are forced off their land. Displaced, they migrate to a poor neighbourhood of Mar del Plata where Lucia attends school while her mother sells baskets at a local market.
Lucia—like many displaced Mapuche—grows up in an urban landscape devoid of cultural and community connections and values. She feels lost, disconnected from her roots, and marginalized.
