Maine Fair Trade Campaign

05/05/2022

03/22/2022

https://www.facebook.com/TradeJusticeEd/posts/459768342495445

The current proposal is not the waiver that public health advocates and most of the world’s governments have been demanding for well over a year.

The good news is that it’s not too late to change. Please share this post and tell President Joe Biden to deliver on the TRIPS waiver the world needs.

01/26/2022

If you are a nurse, doctor, EMT, medical student or other healthcare professional, please sign and encourage your colleagues to sign a letter urging President Biden to do all in his power to accelerate global production of COVID vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics.

Calling all nurses, doctors, EMTs, medical students and other health professionals concerned about global COVID vaccine equity!

12/17/2021

"We – American taxpayers – largely funded the creation of this lifesaving knowledge. It’s time for us to advocate that our investment be fully leveraged for the health of all humanity."

With COVID variant omicron breathing down our necks, America has to empower the world to vaccinate itself. But a false narrative is distracting us.

12/15/2021

Thursday night at 8:00: Register to learn more about how we can stop COVID from becoming a permanent pandemic: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qRToHwB_T5CIcOW-0njO-Q

11/04/2021

We are medical professionals calling on President Biden to get vaccines, diagnostic tools and therapeutics to everyone who needs them around the globe.

09/24/2021

MFTC Board member Sharon Treat contributed this opinion piece to The Hill today.

There are some spectacularly bad ideas about trade policy being floated that, for all our sakes, should be smacked down, pronto.

09/15/2021

"The only way to safeguard Americans’ health and economic security is for the U.S. government to deliver on President Biden’s pledge to save lives and livelihoods worldwide by leading the global vaccination effort necessary to end the pandemic."

The mismatch between the crisis we face and the failure by world leaders to date to deliver on the concrete actions needed to end the pandemic is disastrous and unacceptable.

08/18/2021

"Every day the U.S. fails to act, more people will die. The mismatch between the administration’s stated priority of enacting a waiver to get the world vaccinated and ending the pandemic to save lives, versus the failure to deliver is disastrous and unacceptable." Please sign the petition here.

Tell COVID Czar Jeff Zients that inaction on global access to vaccines is enabling variants to develop and spread

08/03/2021

We need to put pressure on Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson to share their vaccine technology with the world. This will help save millions of lives around the globe and minimize the risk of even worse variants making their way to the USA.

petition urging President Biden to invest $25 Billion to vaccinate entire world and end COVID-19 pandemic

07/15/2021

Today we gathered in Portland to ask German Chancellor Merkel to stop blocking the TRIPS waiver. We must ensure that intellectual property protections in trade agreements don’t stop countries around the world from doing everything necessary to fight COVID.