🔴 Happening now: protest at AstraZeneca offices

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Hi John,

As I write, members of our youth network - together with other grassroots groups from around the UK - are protesting outside AstraZeneca’s offices in Cambridge and Macclesfield, as well as at Oxford University, to call for a People’s Vaccine.

As AstraZeneca holds its annual shareholder meeting, we’re here to demand the company keeps its vaccine affordable and acts to make sure its vaccine technology and know-how are shared widely and fairly, so that everyone, everywhere can be safe.

Activists currently take action at AstraZeneca HQ in Cambridge

The time for change is now

Momentum is growing internationally for scaling up the production of Covid-19 vaccines. Just last week, President Biden announced the US would support the proposal from the global south to suspend patents on Covid-19 vaccines. This proposal would allow vaccine manufacturers around the world to make Covid-19 vaccines without fear of being sued for infringing intellectual property rights.

Over the last few days, international figures - including the Pope, and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry - have joined the call for pharma giants to waive vaccine patents, and more countries have started considering waiving patents, including New Zealand, Canada and the EU.

Yet big pharma companies, including AstraZeneca, are still standing in the way. The problems with the big pharma model will not and cannot be solved by corporate goodwill. Big business simply shouldn’t be in charge of deciding who gets vaccinated and who doesn’t.

Join the action online

Here are three things you can do today to support our protest and join the call for a People’s Vaccine.

1. Sign our petition

Join thousands of people demanding pharmaceutical companies and governments to support the waiver on Covid-19 vaccine patents.

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2. Tweet AstraZeneca’s CEO

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3. Share our graphic on Facebook

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Keep an eye on our social media for some live action from the protests: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Thank you for your support.

Oriana Lauria
Campaigner at Global Justice Now

PS Learn more about why we’re targeting AstraZeneca

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