Dear John,
Friday, March 11 is the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, and billions of people still don’t have access to vaccines and treatments.
Big Pharma companies like Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson claim exclusive ownership over their medical tech. Around the world, their refusal to share their intellectual property is causing thousands of preventable deaths and could result in yet another wave of COVID and shutdowns here in the US.
Please join our friends on Friday for the March 11th Global Day of Action calling on President Biden and other world leaders to remove Big Pharma’s monopoly stranglehold on COVID vaccines, tests, and treatments. We must allow countries to produce the life-saving medicines their populations still desperately need.
Our leaders have the power to remove IP restrictions and open lifesaving pandemic tech to producers around the world—they’re just choosing not to. Join a protest on this Global Day of Action to pressure world leaders to stand up to monopoly power:
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Austin, TX
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Portland, OR
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Boston, MA
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San Diego, CA
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Dallas, TX
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San Francisco, CA
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Detroit, MI
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Seattle, WA
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El Paso, TX
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Washington, DC
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New York, NY
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Other demonstrations are taking place in Accra, Ghana; Guatemala City, Guatemala; Nairobi, Kenya, Lilongwe, Malawi; Port Louis, Mauritius; Lagos, Nigeria; Dakar, Senegal; Freetown, Sierra Leone; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Kampala, Uganda; London, United Kingdom; Lusaka, Zambia; and beyond. Details on those and other actions can be found online here.
For ending this pandemic,
Lia at Fight for the Future
P.S. Can’t make it Friday? You can still make a difference by forwarding this message to others and by urging the White House to implement the "End the Pandemic Now” plan.
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