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HOW YOUR GIFT CAN HELP
- $ 100 - transports activists from Philadelphia or NY to Washington
DC so that they can sit across th table from the US Trade representatives
and hold them accountable to the line that was drawn at the WTO
meeting in Qatar, where it was acknowledged that the rights of
public health need to be respected within the agreement of Trade
and Intellectual Properties Rights.
- $ 500 - pays for most of a month's cell phone bills for our
small staff of 3 who sometimes have to make press calls from such
places as Qatar after having spent months trying to negotiate
our way into those meetings. We had 2 Health GAP members who were
amongst only 2 dozen US activists who were allowed into Qatar.
They spent 23 hours a day relentlessly pushing so that the agreement
would be reached.
- $ 1000 - is what it costs to bring a packed busload of low-income
people living HIV and their loved ones from Philadelphia to protest
in Washington DC and hold the government accountable for standing
in the way of treatments that they have seen keeping their neighbours
and loved ones healthy. It pays for the bus bills, food for the
day and transport tokens. This enables us to reduce the barriers
that stop people from protesting on the issues that impact them.
We can often fill 12 to 15 buses for each protest and often our
largest barrier to bringing people out to protest is not the interest,
it's the cost.
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