Novartis, Stop It (AIDS Patent)

Novartis, a global pharmaceutical giant, is challenging India's patent law. India supplies half of all AIDS medications used in poor countries. If Novartis wins its court case, access to AIDS treatment could be shut off for
hundreds of thousands of people. Their lives hang in the balance.

On February 14, 2007, AIDS activists demonstrated outside Novartis offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during a blizzard.

Want to remix this video? See the press pack at http://wakeupsilver.blogspot.com/2007/11/novartis-protest-press.html

More info at www.globaljusticenow.org and www.fightglobalaids.org

Photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/96012440@N00/sets/72157594536526991

Demonstration organized by
Health GAP
Harvard AIDS Alliance
Northeastern University School of Law
SGAC
Lawyers' Guild
Clark University
AMSA
MIT

Video filmed with Canon digial still camera, edited in a few hours and posted to You Tube same day as the event. There was no budget, script, lighting, sleet-blocking device, or gloves.

Category:

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Tags:

• Novartis
• AIDS
• Patent
• Cambridge
• MIT
• Greed
• Protest
• Demonstration
• Civil
• Disobedience
• Nonviolence
• SGAC

[xHybridz]

why do they want to stop aids treatment?

[wakeupsilver]

because they aren't making money from the treatment, and they think they should be.

[wakeupsilver]

woot!

"Indian court rejects Novartis patent challenge"

Google title for full article

[Nuevomitch]

People here that demand Companies pull patent cases are funny. I bet none of you would donate even 10% of your life savings to aids research. Yet you want Novartis to spend hundreds of millions to develop a useful drug and then have a generic company use their blueprint to manufacture the same drug without doing all the research.

[flguy32501]

Yeah, Let the people have their medicine- who cares about the profits of a drug company, so what if they are close to finding a cure for cancer but decide to stop working on it because they will have to give away the secret recipe.

[rockbottom23]

Go to youtube search box and type Dr. Boyd Graves, AIDS Cure U.S. Patent.

Fuck that marching Shit! It simply don't work anymore!

[rockbottom23]

OMG! 1 or 2 guy comes out and threatens the mob, simply saying if you don't leave, you will be arrested this is private property. and the mob leaves?

This is a just wanna be protester's, pretending like their fighting for change. If they truly cared about effecting change for real, they would have prepared themselves for any means necessary, including JAIL! Go back home Punk-Asses!

[louis12346]

WHO owns Stock in this Company Rumsfield, Al Gore Powell & Obama ?????

[thetruthergirls]

All pharmaceutical companies to is make poison. Research done on colloidal silver in Africa looked promising. See the articles on whale. I bet there are some real remedies for AIDS outthere, not just poisons. Screw Novartis.

[Death2theNWO777]

aids was made in a lab

[Real0Cool0Time]

THE GOVERNMENT ENGINEERED AIDS!

and 9/11

take action in any way you can

[Real0Cool0Time]

nothing better to do than complain?!?... what a biggoted, reptilian agenda mindset you have. If nobody was ACTUALLY taking action in this world to enforce some real checks and balances, then your dumb fucking scientist ass would have nothing to pridefully and blindly defend.

AIDS was engineered by the US government

9/11 was engineered the US government

and your mindset is a product of mind numbing propaganda

[Real0Cool0Time]

it's my understanding more gays and blacks, but people in general is who AIDS takes out. google video aids patent

the virus cancer project

THE GOVERNMENT ENGINEERED 9/11

KILL POLITICIANS AND CELEBRITIES

[shtugher]

AIDS is a project of the ILLUMINATI secret society the virus was created in laboratory as a biological weapon to eradicate the number of the population worldwide MASONS especialy JEWS NEW WORLD ORDER we are living the apocaliptic times.

[nvisionuk]

what you dont realise is that the company you work for will happily do ANYTHING to make a quick buck. same as HLS. what you are doing is giviing capitalist pigs an excuse to kill a few thousands puppies and then murder more people than that with you fraudulant science. test using the alternatives! not animals!