Who we are
The Health Autonomy Volunteer Organizing Committee (HAVOC) came together as a group of friends feeling deeply dissatisfied and alienated from working in the medical industrial complex. We envisioned a convergence where we could bring together people beyond our immediate circles who might feel the same.
In 2023, we organized a 300+ convergence in Durham, NC which brought care workers from many different backgrounds together to tackle issues from trans health care to abolitionism in the medical industrial complex. For more information and how to gain access to the archive, please visit our HAC 2023 page.
We are not a NGO and none of our organizers are paid. HAC is free to attend, although we encourage sliding-scale donations.
Principles
We are healthcare workers sick of making profits for the medical-industrial complex.
We look towards a future that prioritizes collective care over individualized exploitation.
We honor experience and wisdom and undermine hierarchy and professionalism.
We believe that all humans should have access to knowledge of their bodies, unmediated by the hands of state and capital.
We work towards a future wherein all human and planetary life has intrinsic and non-exchangeable value, where we are able to live and die on our own terms.
We look to deconstruct the lines separating patient and provider and hope to collaborate on truly shifting the way power flows in these systems.
We are an evolving network.
