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EMAIL ACTION: Please click before Monday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Access Campaign)
Thu Feb 13 02:41:48 2003
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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:39:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Access Campaign <access_camp@yahoo.com>
To: utr-announce@mit.edu, peace-announce@mit.edu
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**Please forward widely and excuse multiple postings
WTO Headquarters: The U.S. Trade Representative has become the only trade rep out of 144 member countries of the World Trade Organization to refuse to sign-on to a deal that would allow the poorest of countries to access crucial medicines. Poor countries without their own pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities should be able to import medicines from other countries (just as the U.S. does), but our trade rep is blocking the deal to avoid challenging the global price monopoly held by U.S. pharmaceutical corporations.
25,000 lives are lost daily to treatable diseases.
Take ten seconds to advocate for a change in the US position:
1) Go to
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC
2) Click on your state and copy the text below in the e-mail to your Senators, or write your own text:
At the World Trade Organization meeting this week, the US Trade Representative blocked a deal to allow the poorest of countries to import medicines. Yet the U.S. signed the Doha Declaration on public health in November 2001, which stated that poor countries without pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities should have the right to import cheap generic drugs. The US is now the only country to block this deal, and the new round of global trade talks has stopped completely as a result. I'm asking you to tell the US Trade Representative that your constituents disagree with his position. Please tell the US Trade Rep to uphold public health by approving a pharmaceutical import deal that is not limited in scope or replete with legislative burdens and restrictive clauses. Our trade rep should not continue to unilaterally ignore the sentiments of our friends and neighbors while pushing a deal that costs thousands of lives.
This e-mail action is endorsed by United Trauma Relief and the Campaign for Access to Medicines.
For further information: www.geocities.com/medicinepolicy
E-mail: access_camp@yahoo.com
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<P>**Please forward widely and excuse multiple postings</P>
<P>WTO Headquarters: The U.S. Trade Representative has become the only trade rep out of 144 member countries of the World Trade Organization to refuse to sign-on to a deal that would allow the poorest of countries to access crucial medicines. Poor countries without their own pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities should be able to import medicines from other countries (just as the U.S. does), but our trade rep is blocking the deal to avoid challenging the global price monopoly held by U.S. pharmaceutical corporations.</P>
<P>25,000 lives are lost daily to treatable diseases.</P>
<P>Take ten seconds to advocate for a change in the US position:<BR>1) Go to<BR><A href="http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC">http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC</A><BR>2) Click on your state and copy the text below in the e-mail to your Senators, or write your own text:</P>
<P>At the World Trade Organization meeting this week, the US Trade Representative blocked a deal to allow the poorest of countries to import medicines. Yet the U.S. signed the Doha Declaration on public health in November 2001, which stated that poor countries without pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities should have the right to import cheap generic drugs. The US is now the only country to block this deal, and the new round of global trade talks has stopped completely as a result. I'm asking you to tell the US Trade Representative that your constituents disagree with his position. Please tell the US Trade Rep to uphold public health by approving a pharmaceutical import deal that is not limited in scope or replete with legislative burdens and restrictive clauses. Our trade rep should not continue to unilaterally ignore the sentiments of our friends and neighbors while pushing a deal that costs thousands of lives.</P>
<P><BR>This e-mail action is endorsed by United Trauma Relief and the Campaign for Access to Medicines.</P>
<P>For further information: <A href="http://www.geocities.com/medicinepolicy">www.geocities.com/medicinepolicy</A><BR>E-mail: <A href="mailto:access_camp@yahoo.com">access_camp@yahoo.com</A></P>
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