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Join with health and social justice activists worldwide as we collectively undertake Global Days of Actions being organized by the People's Vaccine Alliance during early June to demand the US and European countries to “end COVID monopolies” and “vaccinate and treat the world now!” Here's where to find an event near you around the world.  

These events are being held prior to the the upcoming annual Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that begins on Sun. June 12 in Geneva. The issue of the WTO adopting a comprehensive response to the COVID-19 and future pandemics will be one of the top agenda items.

Here in NYC, groups leading the #EndVaccineApartheid NYC campaign and our allies will be gathering in midtown Manhattan and marching to the UN Missions of Switzerland, European Union, United Kingdom, Germany, and US to call them out for not taking the necessary steps to stop the COVID-19 pandemic and save millions of lives, and deliver a letter of demands to each country’s UN Ambassador. People are asked to wear black clothing to this event.

Since the fall of 2020, these five Western nations have stood in the way of efforts to temporarily waive international intellectual property rights so that COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines can be immediately mass produced and used everywhere around the world, particularly in the Global South. As a result, millions get sick and many die, the pandemic keeps spreading, and new viral variants emerge that threaten all of us everywhere.

Instead of protect everyday people everywhere, these countries are protecting #BigPharma's pandemic profiteering. Over 120 nations are supporting a proposal from India and South Africa for the WTO to adopt a comprehensive "TRIPS waiver" to end the global pandemic as quickly as possible.

Schedule of event components:

• 12 noon -- Gather in Grand Central Plaza, 622 Third Ave. (NW corner of East 40th St.)
• 12:05 -- Swiss Mission to UN, 633 Third Ave. (NE corner of East 40th St.)
• 12:15 -- European Union Mission to UN, 666 Third Ave. (NW corner of East 42nd St.)
• 12:30 -- United Kingdom Mission to the UN, 885 2nd Ave. (NW cor. East 47th St.)
• 12:45 -- Germany Mission to the UN, 871 1st Ave. (SW cor. East 49th St.)
• 12:55 -- US Mission to the UN, 799 First Ave. (SW cor. 45th St.)

Here is the Facebook event to share.

List of participating organizations [list in formation]:

• Center for Popular Democracy and CPD Action
• Health Global Access Project (HealthGAP)
• Housing Works
• Metro New York Health Care for All
• New York Trade Justice Coalition
• Physicians for a National Health Program, NY Metro Chapter
• Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
• Rise and Resist
• Showing Up for Racial Justice NYC

For more information and to have your own group become a co-sponsor, contact metrohealth@igc.org.

Please note:  Co-Sponsorship means actively promoting awareness and participation in this event through your own networks, and turning out some of your own members for it. It is not just a passive, nominal sign-on.