Amazon, 3M, US Bank, and others are holding up millions of lifesaving
face-masks and gloves that doctors and nurses desperately need.

Tell them to stop putting profits over health workers’ lives!

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John,

Inside our hospitals, exhausted doctors and nurses are describing scenes
from a war zone: sick patients flooding out into the corridors and in
makeshift wards. These brave healthcare workers are working around the
clock to protect us from this pandemic but the only thing protecting them
are face masks and gloves, and supplies are running desperately low.

Over 10,000 healthcare workers have already been infected, yet greedy
corporations that sit on the US Chamber of Commerce’s board - companies
like Amazon, 3M, and US Bank - are stopping millions more masks, gloves,
and other lifesaving gear being made.

The Federal Government can invoke a powerful wartime law called the
Defence Production Act that would force companies to switch over their
production lines and manufacture massive quantities of lifesaving gear
like masks and ventilators.

But the US Chamber of Commerce is blocking it.

We can’t afford another day of production lines lying idle. If thousands
of us pile pressure on these companies to move out of the way, we can
kickstart the production of desperately needed protective gear for
healthcare workers on the frontlines.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Amazon, 3M, and others to stop blocking the production of more
life-saving masks and gloves for doctors and nurses!

All it would take is for the Trump Administration to put the law into full
effect. Trump has used this power hundreds of times before to build drones
and weapons.

But the Chamber of Commerce - whose board members like Amazon are making
$11,000 a second during this pandemic - says that ordering companies to
switch production to life-saving protective equipment would be too much
government ‘interference.’

Right now hospitals and states are needlessly competing against each other
to secure scarce supplies. But if we unlock our production lines we can
get hospitals the supplies they desperately need.

We need to throw everything we can at this problem - America’s biggest
companies should be helping to flatten the curve, not fatten their
profits.

[ [link removed] ]This is life and death for our doctors and nurses: tell Amazon and 3M
to stop blocking the Defense Production Act now!



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Thanks for all that you do,
Vicky, Nick and the team at SumOfUs


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Unmasked:The corporations backing a lobbying campaign against the use
of the Defense Production Act Public Accountability Initiative, April 16th
2020
[ [link removed] ]Unsanitized: The Chamber of Commerce lobbies against protecting
America The American Prospect, April 16th 2020

 

 

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