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Yesterday, United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the Biden-Harris Administration s support for waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines (see Biden Administration Supports Waiver of IP Protection for COVID-19 Vaccines ). The waiver was proposed last fall by India and South Africa, which asked the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to recommend a waiver from the implementation, application and enforcement of Sections 1, 4, 5, and 7 of Part II of the TRIPS Agreement in relation to prevention, containment or treatment of COVID-19 to the General Council of the WTO. In March, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), a group of fifteen industry and trade organizations (including BIO), and a group of intellectual property organizations (including the IPO), sent letters to the Biden Administratio
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In a statement issued earlier today, United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the Biden-Harris Administration s support for waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines.
As we reported earlier this year, India and South Africa proposed last fall that the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) recommend a waiver from the implementation, application and enforcement of Sections 1, 4, 5, and 7 of Part II of the TRIPS Agreement in relation to prevention, containment or treatment of COVID-19 to the General Council of the WTO. The two countries also recommended that [t]he waiver should continue until widespread vaccination is in place globally.
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International Workers Day, May 1, is celebrated by tens of millions of people around the world. Its radical history emerged from the Haymarket Square resistance and the massacre that followed in 1886.
May Day was revived as a workers’ day by the immigrant rights movement in the United States in 2009. As the labor movement continues to blossom in the U.S., more and more people here now recognize International Workers Day, or “May Day.” Thousands of workers joined May Day events around the country this year despite the limitations presented by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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NYC, May 1. Fired Amazon worker Christian Smalls leads a rally in front of Jeff Bezos’s apartment in Manhattan. Liberation photo
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Watch the news for any length of time, and it’s easy to distinguish the liberal media’s heroes from their villains. And for the last three months, new Vice President Kamala Harris has definitely been a media hero.
Don’t go searching the broadcast networks or liberal cable outlets looking for controversies: the news media haven’t talked about Harris being the
second-most liberal Senator of 2020 (just a tiny fraction behind Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders). There hasn’t much interest, either, in how she’s
failed to make any impact during her first weeks as the Biden administration’s lead official on the border crisis.