Dear friend,

Can you please join us at an urgent protest in support of global access to COVID vaccines and treatments?

While Americans and Western Europeans increasingly have widespread access to COVID vaccination, huge numbers of people in low- and middle-income nations won't have access to vaccines for years unless global production is dramatically increased.

To increase vaccine production, the vast majority of countries — including the United States — support waiving certain trade-related intellectual property rights (TRIPS) at the World Trade Organization so that COVID vaccines can be produced in as many places as possible as quickly as possible.  But Germany is blocking a final agreement.
 
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is coming to the United States next week — a rare opportunity for activists like you to directly increase the pressure on her to stop putting Big Pharma profits ahead of an end to the pandemic.
 

Please join us at a protest below to tell the Chancellor that every day of delay on the TRIPS waiver means thousands more needless deaths and increased chances of a viral mutation that starts the pandemic all over again for everyone.

The global TRIPS waiver campaign has asked us to rise to this moment, and we need your help!

Emergency Protests: Germany, Stop Blocking Global COVID Vaccines!

CALIFORNIA
Wednesday, July 14 * 10:00am
Outside the German Consulate
6222 Wilshire Boulevard * Los Angeles, CA
 
Thursday, July 15 * 6:00pm
Outside the German Consulate
1960 Jackson Street * San Francisco, CA
 
Friday, July 16 * 10:30am
Outside the Honorary German Consulate (Emerald Center)
1620 5th Ave * San Diego, CA
 
COLORADO
Wednesday, July 14 * 11:00am
Outside the Honorary German Consulate
4100 E Mississippi Avenue * Denver, CO
Contact:  apetrovic@citizen.org 
 
MAINE
Thursday, July 15 * 12:30pm
Across from Honorary German Consulate (Lobsterman Park)
1 Temple Street * Portland, ME
 
MASSACHUSETTS
Monday, July 12 • 12:00pm 
Copley Square (Corner of Boylston & Darmouth Streets)
560 Boylston St • Boston, MA
Contact:  apetrovic@citizen.org 
 
NEW YORK
Wednesday, July 14 * 10:00am
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
E. 47th Street (between 1st & 2nd Ave) * New York, NY
Thursday, July 15 * 5:00pm
Outside the Honorary German Consulate
120 West Tupper Street * Buffalo, NY
 
OHIO
Wednesday, July 14 * 12:00pm
Outside the Honorary German Consulate (One Cleveland Center)
1375 E. Ninth Street * Cleveland, OH
Contact:  apetrovic@citizen.org 
 
OREGON
Wednesday, July 14 * 6:00pm
Outside Honorary German Consulate
3900 SW Murray Blvd • Beaverton, OR
 
TEXAS
Friday, July 9 * 11:00am
Car Caravan Around German Consulate
Meeting at 17198 Knoll Trail Road * Dallas, TX
 
UTAH
Tuesday, July 13 * 12:00pm
Outside the Honorary German Consulate
36 State St * Salt Lake City, UT
Contact:  apetrovic@citizen.org 
 
VIRGINIA
Thursday, July 15 * 10:30am
Outside the Honorary German Consulate (Town Point Park and Nauticus)
1 Waterside Drive * Norfolk, VA
Contact:  rharvey@citizen.org 
 
WASHINGTON
Sunday, July 12 • 1:00pm 
The German House
613 9th Ave  *  Seattle, WA

No consulate in your area?  You can still make a difference by writing to Chancellor Merkel and by sharing this important video on Facebook or on Twitter.

This is a critical moment for the TRIPS waiver campaign with literally millions of lives are on the line.  But together we can win.

In solidarity,

Arthur Stamoulis, Executive Director
CITIZENS TRADE CAMPAIGN

Online: citizenstrade.org
Twitter: @citizenstrade

 

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