Jim Bloyd DrPH MPH 🍉

Analysis of the #Power Ecosystem and Select Examples of How Power Is Wielded to Influence #Health #Equity. [Excerpt from Box 1. In Why Building Power Is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

We are angered and disheartened by the lack of progress our fields have made over the last 20 years and dismayed by the dismantling of health equity efforts happening in real time. In response, we are determined to reimagine academic public health and drive social change. We believe public health scholars need to share and build power with communities facing inequities now more than ever.

Just published in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social: a collective analysis of the power ecosystem that jeopardizes public health and produces inequity, titled “Why Building Power is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity”

@hmprg.bsky.social @melissasweetdr.bsky.social @uicpublichealth.bsky.social @defendpublichealth.bsky.social @aaup.org @statnews.com @depauluniversity.bsky.social @checookcounty.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @medillschool.bsky.social #Organizing #BuildPower #BreatkPower #HealthEquity #Academia

Why Building Power Is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 11 American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

(4) Read the full article, available now: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

(3) To do so, we are building a network founded in authentic relationships to inform future collective actions. Interested in learning more or joining us? Contact us at HPOPstaff@gmail.com and read more here: uwphi.pophealth.wisc.edu/public-healt...

(2) In it, my co-authors – all members of the Health and Power Organizing Project - argue that academic public health must enhance its capacity in building and breaking power to make meaningful change.

Just published in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social: a collective analysis of the power ecosystem that jeopardizes public health and produces inequity, titled “Why Building Power is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity”

Democrats on two congressional committees demand investigation into ICE raid in South Shore Democrats on the Committee on Homeland Security and the House Committee on the Judiciary joined Illinois Democrats Reps. Delia Ramirez and Jesus "Chuy" Garcia Monday in sending a letter to U.S. Attorn...

ICE agents Zip-ties kids in Chicago 'F*** them kids' agent: "Imagine an armed stranger entering your home and forcibly removing you from your bed, zip-tying your hands, separating you from your family and detaining you in a dark van for hours,” IL Gov Pritzker chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

CHE Notes We defend our neighbors, family, and communities. Chicago and suburban residents mobilize, organize and resist military-style violence perpetrated by ICE. Federal agents zip-tie children, violently at...

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#IICEOutofChicago #ICECriminals #ICEGestapo Hospital associations must stand together to denounce ICE intrusion of clinical facilities. @thenation.com @democracynow.org @apha.org @hmprg.bsky.social

Trump dismisses civil rights, fair housing cases in Chicago to focus on ‘real concerns’ HUD will stop monitoring a civil rights agreement over the General Iron matter and dropped a case alleging City Council members blocked affordable housing using "aldermanic prerogative" veto power.

I've spent the past several years covering two federal civil rights complaints in Chicago. Both affect vulnerable people and communities. Yesterday, Trump upended both of them, saying they aren't "real concerns." chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Chicago act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...

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I'm going to APHA’s 2025 Annual Meeting and Expo, November 2-5 in Washington, D.C.! Will I see you there? #FreePalestine #StopArmingIsrael #StopGazaGenocide Register today to connect with me and 12,000 public health professionals. #APHA2025 #PublicHealth app.sosha.ai/s/nFFKpO7S

#RealHeroes against #Fascism and #Genocide, #Belgium.

Chicago Daley plaza filled! #Chicago #GoodTrouble #Goodtroubleliveson #OneMillionRising #ICEOut #FightBack #organize #Libertad

I am fighting for those who cannot or will not fight for themselves! #onemillionrising

Truly amazing!!
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On #OneMillionRising call for Indivisible.org right now.

"It's not rocket science to get to democracy. It's actually finger painting."

--- @ashdashlee.bsky.social

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I completely agree.

Excellent zoom, check it out. Complete notes on program, #nokings
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4,849 community gatherings committed. #onemillionrising

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But bear in mind getting everything check on Mobilize will take some time
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Good zoom call #OneMillionRising HOPE requires action!

Goal: one thousand events!! #onemillionrising

#onemillionrising "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."

What's needed? A civil resistance movement taking sustained action over time. Research from 1991-2021 shows that in 35 cases of democratic backsliding, 7.5% success with NO civil resistance, and 51.7% with CIVIL RESISTANCE

Fired up to join forces with @indivisible.org and other orgs building a sustained CIVIL RESISTANCE movement! 💯🔥✊

Who else in #SanFrancisco is up for a small gathering in the #CerebralValley aka Hayes Valley, the self-proclaimed epicenter of AI development globally?

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How to invite someone?
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Safety & logistics:
- use Mobilize
- keep it on the DL
- what if I'm not comfortable? still attend these calls, please
- why should we do this? because they don't want us to

Security is crucial!! Be careful we can be safer #onemillionrising