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    May 1

    to contain coronavirus infections and save lives.

    Vaccines have helped generations of children grow up in good health, safe from infectious and dangerous diseases like polio and measles. As COVID-19 vaccines become available, they too will offer live-saving protection to our communities.
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    22 hours ago

    We don't necessarily need to pause vaccination here, we need to drop the patents now

    DROP👏THE👏PATENTS 👏
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  3. 20 hours ago

    This is an unmissable event! Register now to get your free slot!

    Don't miss 's exciting Opening Plenary 17th May, 10AM CET With & Sai Sam Kham Register now:
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  4. Apr 30

    DROP👏THE👏PATENTS 👏

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  5. Apr 30

    Exactly! We need a .

    People vaccines — “a vaccine which was almost entirely funded with public money should be a global public good.”
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    Apr 29

    "In view of the AGM on 29th of April, we have launched this petition" "Glencore is still responsible for environmental damage, human and worker rights violations and destruction of livelihoods."

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    Apr 28

    Could a UN treaty force mining companies to behave responsibly? As business continues during a global pandemic, the need to protect the environment, health and human rights are ever-more urgent. Via 👉🏽 Focused on in the Andes.

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    Apr 29

    Cowardly claims 'force majeur' because of violence, running to safety, leaving entire communities it has dispossessed &not paying local businesses! We demand the gas industry cease ops &pay just reparations to all affected!

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  9. Apr 30

    A publicly funded vaccine should be a . This means: 💰 No price hikes 🧪 Share the technology ⁠❌ Suspend the patents 📣 Join protests in Cambridge and Macclesfield on Tuesday 11 May >>

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    Apr 30

    In debates on the new Trade Act, there must have been a 100 times ministers rejected amendments to improve trade negotiation processes on the grounds that it was not for future trade deals. Now trumpeting it as "necessary to bring new trade deals into being”

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  11. Apr 30

    These vaccines were funded largely by the public. They are a global public good. Governments need to force Big Pharma to share the technology and know-how for Covid-19 vaccines with the world.

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    “What we’re calling on the government to do is to ease the intellectual property rules around who owns this vaccine technology” CEO of Oxfam says the best way to help India and other countries is to share the rights to vaccine production.
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  12. Apr 29

    💸UPDATE💸 's old hedge fund has already made at least £144m from its stake in Moderna, according to Does the Chancellor still hold an interest in the fund?

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    Apr 29

    Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has a key role in shaping the global response to the pandemic. And it’s not good news for health equality. Nick Dowson investigates why.

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    Apr 26

    What’s crazy is that Flint isn’t the only city without clean water. There are other cities, with a majority Black population, without clean water. Environmental racism is more common than we think.

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    BRUH.
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    Apr 29

    Looks like is also coming round to support the suspension of patents to help ramp up vaccine production to ensure all countries can access doses: "it might go some way to shifting the debate towards more helpful areas while not actually destroying the global IP system."

    A vaccine patent waiver that might be worth a shot
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  16. Apr 29

    "Global awareness of the proposed waiver at the WTO and calls for its adoption are now growing rapidly, with a sudden snowballing in recent weeks and days" on the growing campaign for a

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  17. Apr 29

    If rich countries' governments had listened to India and South Africa and suspended patents on Covid-19 vaccines many months ago, we might not be witnessing the horrendous scenes in the told about the urgent need for a

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  18. Apr 29

    So many voices are speaking up for a A 🧵 from ⬇

    I was just thinking how much support there is for a - to get there we need to break pharma monopolies by suspending patents and forcing companies to share their vaccine blueprints. Here's my tally of global support so far... (thread)
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  19. Apr 29

    "The system hasn’t collapsed. The government has failed. Perhaps 'failed' is an inaccurate word, because what we are witnessing is not criminal negligence, but an outright crime against humanity."

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    Apr 23

    JOIN OUR MAY DAY MOBILISATION FOR Read about our plans! 👇

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