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AstraZeneca: We demand a People’s Vaccine AstraZeneca: We demand a People’s Vaccine As AstraZeneca held its annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, our youth network launched protests outside the company’s head office in Cambridge, its second largest UK site in Macclesfield and outside Oxford University. We brought our demands for a People’s Vaccine directly to the company so they could not be ignored and our protests were also widely covered in local and national media. These protests were part of a series of actions at Big Pharma shareholder meetings by the People’s Vaccine allianc...

At about 7:15 am PT this morning , May 13, 2021, I saw Dr. Mona Nemer’s (Canada’s Chief Science Advisor) tweet (Note: I’m sorry the formatting isn’t better, Maryse de la Giroday@frogheart Does this mean Canada will support a waiver on patent rights for COVID-19 vaccines? Dr. Mona Nemer@ChiefSciCanThe global health crisis of the past year has underscored the critical importance of openly sharing scientific information. We are one step closer to making #openscience a reality around the world. So pleased that my office was part of these discussions. http://webcast.unesco.org/events/2021-...

Lessons of the COVID-19 Pandemic For Our Collective Humanity, By Femi Falana The sad story is that of the resurgence of vaccine nationalism, with all its perils for our shared humanity. In sum, the response to the crisis should, therefore, be based on the principles of compassion, cooperation and multilateralism. In fact, apart from the pandemic, other global issues such as climate change, social inequality, drugs and identity crisis require cooperation and multilateral approaches because they constitute dangers to our common humanity. The most telling lesson of the coronavirus pandemic is t...

An Essex woman was one of four people arrested during a protest outside the headquarters of pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca’s headquarters. The demonstration was held in Cambridge yesterday to demand the firm share its vaccine technology across the world. A protester, who held a sign which read “human life not profit,” chained himself to a door while others climbed on to the roof of the entryway and unfurled a banner which read “people’s vaccine not profit vaccine”. Supporters played drums during the protest, organised by Global Justice Now, which is calling for the Bri...