This is related to some of the posting on this list regarding "drug marketing" throughout the world.

-Aram

Subject: Important teach-in June 30
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 08:17:02 -0400
From: Mike Prokosch <[log in to unmask]>



Seniors in Massachusetts are choosing beteween food, heat, and essential drugs... because prescription drug prices are so high.

30 million sub-Saharan Africans will die of AIDS by the year 2010... because they can't afford anti-AIDS drugs.

And behind it are global drug companies that
-mark up drugs 30 times the cost of making them in India and China,
-claim they need the huge markup to pay their research and development costs, but
-don't do their own research.  (We do, through NIH and public contracts to universities. Then the federal government sells them 20-year monopoly patents for a few hundred thousand dollars.)

Free market? Anything but. It's sheer government-corporate collusion to keep the profits private and externalize the costs (including tens of millions of deaths). It is also a stunning example of the real global economy.

And that's why United for a Fair Economy is cosponsoring a teach-in Wednesday, June 30 along with an extraordinary coalition of seniors, HIV+ organizations, people who care about Africa...

Here's the announcement. Please come, and spread the word!

MILLIONS ARE DYING OF AIDS
IN AFRICA

drugs cost too much.

MILLIONS CAN’T AFFORD
MEDICINE IN AMERICA

drugs cost too much.

What can you do?

come to
ACCESS TO LIFE:
Holding decision makers responsible

Wednesday JUNE 30th
5:30 PM
Arlington Street Church

Partial List of Cosponsors:

Boston Rainbow Coalition, Codman Square Health Center,  Community Change, Inc., Community Church of Boston, CPPAX, Community Servings,  Gray Panthers, Mass. Senior Action Council, Search for a Cure, United for a Fair Economy, Women’s Health Institute


SNACKS PROVIDED

For more info call Search for a Cure at 617 536 2474