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Sanders Applauds Biden for 'Putting People Over Profits' by Backing Vaccine Patent Waiver

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday praised President Joe Biden's decision to support a temporary waiver on intellectual property protections for coroanvirus vaccines. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)

As Coronavirus Ravages India, Senate Dems Urge US Pharma Firms to Share Vaccine Tech

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

A woman demands Pfizer "free the vaccine" at a March 11, 2021 demonstration outside the company's world headquarters in New York City. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"Addressing the spread of Covid-19 in India is critical," the senators wrote in a letter imploring drugmaker CEOs to take steps to "drastically expand vaccine development and access."

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In Fiery Remarks at WTO, South Africa Slams Rich Nations Blocking Vaccine Patent Waiver

Jake Johnson, staff writer

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his fifth State of the Nation address in front of a nearly empty parliament on February 11, 2021.

"Is the concern of opponents really that Pfizer and BioNTech, Moderna,...

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'We Need a People's Vaccine': Ex-World Leaders, Nobel Laureates Urge Biden to Back WTO Waiver

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Global Justice Now and The People's Vaccine projection campaigning for global vaccine equality at the offices of the Association for the British Pharmaceuticals Industry in London on March 8, 2021. (Photo: Jess Hurd/Global Justice Now/Flickr/cc)

"Supporting the emergency waiver of Covid-19-related intellectual property...

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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg protests during a "Fridays for Future" protest in front of the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen in Stockholm on October 9, 2020. (Photo: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images)

Greta Thunberg Says She'll Skip UN Climate Conference Over Covid-19 Vaccine Inequity

A woman waiting during a Covid-19 vaccination drive on March 13, 2021 in 2021 in New Delhi, India.

'Disturbing': Rich Nations Vaccinating Person Per Second While Blocking Effort to Share Recipe With Poor Countries

A patient is brought into a Brooklyn hospital that has seen a high number of Covid-19 patients on January 27, 2021 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

'Fight Against This Deadly Virus Far From Over': First Cases of South African Variant Detected in US

A medic holds up a vial of the Covishield Covid-19 vaccine at Balrampur Hospital, on January 16, 2021 in Lucknow, India. (Photo: Deepak Gupta/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

'Deeply Alarming': AstraZeneca Charging South Africa More Than Double What Europeans Pay for Covid-19 Vaccine

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (top L), U.S. President Donald Trump (top R), South Korean President Moon Jae-in (down L), and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (down C) are seen on a screen before the start of a virtual G20 summit hosted by Saudi Arabia and held over video conference amid the Covid-19 pandemic, in Brussels, on November 21, 2020. (Photo: Yves Herman/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccine Access Advocates Cautiously Optimistic As G20 Summit Ends With Pledge to 'Spare No Effort' to Ensure Widespread Distribution

A Syrian refugee walks near a camp outside Qah, Idlib province, on October 28, 2020. (Photo: Ahmad al-Atrash/AFP/Getty Images)

By Rejecting WTO Drug Patent Waivers Amid Pandemic, Richest Nations Put Big Pharma Profits Before Health of Billions

'Best News in Quite a While': Dramatically Lower Flu Rates in Southern Hemisphere Offer Hope

Protesters march against gender-based violence, organised by several NGO?s and organisations at the JSE in Sandton on September 13, 2019 in Sandton, South Africa.

At #SandtonShutdown, South African Women Disrupt Business as Usual as Fury Over Gender-Based Violence Boils Over

the Woolsey Fire

Global Poll Reveals Surging Fear of Climate Crisis and US Power Under Trump

South African Officials Among Many Denouncing Trump's "Disgusting" White Supremacist Talking Point on Land Reforms

South African business leader Bonang Mohale, left, wrote an open letter urging World Economic Forum attendees who oppose President Donald Trump's reported comments about African countries, to walk out of his speech there on Friday.

To Protest Racist Comments and Policies, Walkout Planned for Trump's Davos Speech

Tree trunks stand in the critically low Theewaterskloof Dam in Villiersdorp, South Africa, Jan. 23, 2018. (Photo: Reuters)

Climate Bellwether? With Cape Town Almost Out of Water, "Day Zero" Looms

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People's Action

People’s Action/Justice is Global Statement on White House Support of the TRIPS Waiver

Global Justice Now

Campaigners Condemn Decision to Make South Africa Pay More Than Double European Price for Astra Zeneca Vaccine, as Cases Soar

Amnesty International - USA

Years of Impunity for Xenophobic Crimes Driving the Latest Attacks in South Africa

Earthjustice

South Africa: Activists in Mining Areas Harassed

Global Justice Now

Campaigners Accuse May of Crossing ‘Red Line’ on International Aid

350.org

Cape Town Heeds the Fossil Fuel Divestment Call

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Orthalia Kunene

The Climate Crisis Fuels Violence Against Women

Stephen Cockburn

Big Pharma Must Share Their Vaccine Knowledge and Technology With the World—Now

Juan Cole

Israel Was Designated an Apartheid State by B'Tselem. What Martin Luther King Jr. Would Have Thought of That.

Robert C. Koehler

The Parallel Universe of Peace

Laura Flanders

The US Spends More Than $80 Billion a Year Incarcerating 2.3 Million People

William Minter

Africa Could Power a Green Revolution

William Minter

Corporations Getting to Zero With GOP's Inside Help on Tax Avoidance

Celina della Croce

How Working-Class Movements Are Moving Beyond the Confines of Capitalism

Stefan Simanowitz

I Witnessed How Close South Africa Came to Civil War, 25 Years Ago Today

Ahmed Mokgopo

How a Development Bank is Propping Up the Fossil Fuel Industry in South Africa. And Why it Must Reverse Course