ACTIVISTS POUR LOVED ONE'S ASHES ON SENATE STEPS, DEMAND PASSAGE OF INTERNATIONAL PANDEMIC PREVENTION AND COVID RESPONSE ACT DONATE TODAY / FUEL THE FIGHT

Join Right to Health Action for our All Hands Meeting on Thursday, May 20th. R2H Action All Hands Meeting Featuring Special Guest, Lori Wallach with Public Citizen THURS • MAY 20, 2021 • 8:30PM ET | 5:30PM PT It's All Hands on Deck to Build a Pandemic Free Future! Our second All Hands Organizing Meeting was on Thursday, May 20th 2021. We heard from our keynote speaker, Lori Wallach, with Public Citizen Global Trade Watch to discuss the urgent action needed for global vaccine equity. We need all hands on deck to win our plan to stop COVID, build back better and stop the pandemics of the future. To WIN this policy agenda, we need to build a movement that brings together a massive community of people passionate about the same issues. This event is a chance for YOU to learn more, be inspired, and and mobilize into powerful action around the People’s Pandemic Prevention Plan .

¡Únase a nosotros el martes 4 de agosto a las 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 AM EST para un ayuntamiento virtual! Nuestros distinguidos oradores informarán a los medios sobre un conjunto de recomendaciones hechas por más de 1,500 profesionales de la salud y expertos que instan a Joe Biden a adoptar un conjunto de políticas para detener la crisis ahora, reconstruir un mundo mejor y prevenir las pandemias del futuro. Los oradores también comentarán sobre el estado de las negociaciones de COVID-4 en curso en el Congreso. Tenemos el honor de albergar a estos líderes dinámicos: Jeffrey Sachs, PhD Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, es un profesor de economía de renombre mundial, autor superventas, líder en desarrollo sostenible y asesor principal de la ONU. Es un destacado experto en desarrollo económico, macroeconomía global, el escape de la pobreza extrema, el control del SIDA, la malaria y otras enfermedades, y la batalla contra el cambio climático inducido por el hombre. Sachs fue co-receptor del Premio Blue Planet por su liderazgo ambiental y ha sido nombrado dos veces entre los líderes mundiales más influyentes de la revista Time. El New York Times calificó a Sachs como "probablemente el economista más importante del mundo". Los profesores Sachs se desempeñan como Director del Centro para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Universidad de Columbia y fue Director del Instituto de la Tierra de 2002 a 2016. Abdul El-Sayed, MD Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, es médico, epidemiólogo, activista progresista, educador, autor, orador y presentador de podcast. Es presidente de Southpaw Michigan y colaborador político en CNN. Es autor de Healing Politics, y pide una política de empatía para curar nuestra epidemia de inseguridad, y el próximo Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide with Dr. Micah Johnson. Es el presentador de "America Dissected", un podcast de Crooked Media, que va más allá de los titulares para explorar lo que realmente importa para nuestra salud. Es un Académico Residente en la Universidad Estatal de Wayne y en la Universidad Americana que enseña sobre la interacción de la salud pública, las políticas públicas y la política. Rishi Rattan, MD Rishi Rattan, MD, es profesor asociado de cirugía en la Universidad de Miami y cirujano de traumatología y cuidados críticos en el Jackson Memorial Hospital, uno de los hospitales públicos más grandes del país. Actualmente está en primera línea en el epicentro actual de la pandemia de COVID. El Dr. Rattan ocupa múltiples puestos de campo y docentes en el Sistema Médico Nacional de Desastres en respuesta a desastres y emergencias. Él capacita a agencias civiles, gubernamentales y militares nacionales y extranjeras en respuesta a emergencias en desastres, situaciones humanitarias, conflictos y otros entornos austeros. Da conferencias en universidades y escuelas profesionales a nivel internacional. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en prensa científica y popular y traducido a múltiples idiomas. Hannah Lichtsinn, MD Hannah Lichtsinn, MD, FAAP, es internista y pediatra de HealthPartners en St. Paul, MN y profesora asistente de medicina en la Universidad de Minnesota. Es cofundadora de la Minnesota Immigrant Health Alliance (MIHA), copresidenta de la organización de defensa de la salud Our Stories. Our Health., Y miembro de la junta del capítulo de Minnesota de la Academia Estadounidense de Pediatría (MNAPP). También es miembro de 2020-2021 de Líderes en Políticas de Salud de la Sociedad de Medicina Interna General (SGIM).

LEADING HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT GROUPS CALL FOR GLOBAL ACTION TO PREVENT PANDEMICS ILLEGAL LOGGING ON PIRITITI INDIGENOUS LANDS, RORAIMA STATE, BRAZIL COVID-19 MASS GRAVES, NEW YORK CITY, USA The Coalition to Prevent Pandemics at the Source calls on United States Congress to Prioritize Pandemic Prevention February 10, 2021 Hon. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker, United States House of Representatives Hon. Kevin McCarthy, Minority Leader, United States House of Representatives Hon. Chuck Schumer, Majority Leader, United States Senate Hon. Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader, United States Senate Dear Madam Speaker, Mr. Minority Leader, Mr. Majority Leader, Mr. Minority Leader, Zoonotic spillover – the transmission of novel pathogens, from animals to humans – is the origin of most emerging infectious diseases, including COVID-19. The rate of zoonotic disease outbreaks is rapidly increasing, driven by human activities that increase interactions between wildlife, livestock, and people. Land use change, particularly the clearing, degradation, and fragmentation of tropical forests within emerging disease hotspots, as well as wildlife trade, and intensive livestock production are of greatest concern. With six times more outbreaks in 2010 than 1980, the next million-death pandemic is more likely to happen in the next decade than in the next century and will almost certainly be the result of another zoonotic spillover. We applaud the measures outlined in President Biden’s National Security Directive 1 for new bilateral and multilateral efforts to strengthen the international COVID-19 response. We note, however, that these measures are largely directed at pandemic response and containment (surveillance and preparedness measures to stop an outbreak from spreading). We thank the Congress for restoring modest amounts of U.S. bilateral and multilateral assistance in tropical countries for zoonotic spillover surveillance, the management of sustainable landscapes, conserving the ecological integrity of intact forests, and enforcing wildlife trade policies in the FY21 Consolidated Appropriations Act. The need remains for far more leadership and investment regarding pandemic prevention. We can stop future pandemics at the source by reducing spillover of pathogens from animals to humans. If COVID-19 has made one thing clear, it is that the cost of even the boldest initiative to prevent future pandemics is orders of magnitude less than the price we pay once a pandemic occurs. Our coalition of leading U.S.-based, global public health and environmental organizations recommends scaling up international efforts to prevent zoonotic spillover through increased funding to mainstream One Health. Such programs strengthen local human and animal health systems and implement risk reduction activities at points of human-animal contact. They include reducing forest clearing and degradation, preventing commercial wildlife trade that risks contributing to zoonotic spillover, strictly monitoring and reducing disease risk from wildlife markets, improving biosecurity on farms in emerging disease hotspots, and ensuring the health systems of poor countries and local communities are equipped to stop outbreaks. As Congress and the Biden Administration draft the emergency COVID-19 package, we ask that you ensure a significant level of new funds is directed to support programs and activities that prevent pandemics at the source through development assistance programs focused on One Health, forest conservation, and wildlife trade, including to help support frontline and Indigenous communities in zoonotic spillover hotspots. We are also calling on the Administration to lead an effort to create a Global Fund for Pandemic Prevention, with an initial $2.5 billion commitment as leverage to recruit other major donors to this effort. Such a Fund could be announced as part of the action agenda at the Group of Seven hosted this year by the UK and would galvanize greater international action on pandemic prevention while also ensuring other nations share the cost. These investments will also help expand successful approaches providing healthcare and job training that have achieved impressive impacts for frontline communities. These impacts include a more than 90 percent reduction in the number of families engaged in unsustainable logging, health benefits (including a two thirds reduction in infant mortality) and preventing carbon emissions worth more than 10 times the cost of the program through reduced deforestation. Expanding these local and community-based solutions will reduce the risks of zoonotic spillover and help stop the next pandemic before it starts. The United States and other countries should also use their diplomatic, trade and purchasing power to influence countries and companies to reduce deforestation and forest degradation, adopt wildlife policies favorable to pandemic prevention, and ensure that impoverished countries have access to the assistance they need to conserve and protect natural resources, provide healthcare and livelihood alternatives for local communities, and secure planetary health. 'Building back better' also means enhancing global health security, which must include U.S. leadership and investments to prevent pandemics at the source. Our coalition stands ready to assist in these efforts and urges Congress to ensure that significant new international funding is available as part of the federal response to COVID-19. Respectfully, Coalition to Prevent Pandemics at the Source (in alphabetical order): Conservation International Dalberg Catalyst EcoHealth Alliance Health In Harmony The Nature Conservancy (TNC) R2H Action [Right to Health] Rainforest Alliance Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) World Resources Institute (WRI) World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Other endorsers: Advisors to the Coalition: Dr. Aaron Bernstein, Interim Director, Harvard Chan C-CHANGE; Pediatric Hospitalist, Boston Children’s Hospital Melinda Kimble, Professor, Syracuse University Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, Professor, George Mason University Also signed by: Animal Defenders International If Not Us Then Who? International Foundation for Animal Welfare Marked by COVID, leading U.S. grassroots organization of families who lost loved ones to COVID-19 Mighty Earth Copied to: Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro, House Committee on Appropriations Ranking Member Kay Granger, House Committee on Appropriations Chairman Patrick Leahy, Senate Committee on Appropriations Ranking Member Richard Shelby, Senate Committee on Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara Lee, House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations Ranking Member Hal Rogers, House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations Ranking Member Lindsay Graham, Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations Chairman Gregory Meeks, House Committee on Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Michael McCaul, House Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Robert Menendez, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Ranking Member James E. Risch, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations DOWNLOAD LETTER

We are calling for immediate action by the Biden Administration to ensure there are enough vaccines in supply to solve this global crisis.  DEMAND CONGRESS PASS EMERGENCY COVID FUNDS NOW

PRESS ON R2HA | PRESS BY R2HA Press READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE READ MORE

Join Right to Health Action for our All Hands Meeting on Thursday, May 20th. You're invited! Join Right to Health Action for our All Hands Organizing Meeting on Thursday, May 20th at 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT. Featuring special guest speaker Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen Global Trade Watch. Register below! During this one-hour event, you'll hear from our keynote speaker, get updates on current R2H campaigns to fight vaccine apartheid and pandemic prevention, and meet other activists fighting for change right in your state. Our All Hands Meeting is for people who are new to Right to Health Action and activists who are already involved in our work. We hope to see you there!

As COVID-19 vaccines become a reality, wealthy world leaders are buying up all the supply. Billions of people in poor countries are being left behind. Two World Health Organization-led programs, COVAX and the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) can fix this. Please sign this petition to urge Joe Biden to rejoin WHO and support it's 189-nation initiative to get free vaccines to more people, faster, and cheaper. By sharing the vaccines the public has paid to invent, licensing generic producers, and expanding manufacturing and distribution capacity worldwide, we can finally bring this pandemic to a definitive end.

FIRST OPINION : Biden should use emergency powers to license Covid-19 vaccine technologies to the WHO for global access BY JONATHAN SHAFFER • MARCH 25, 2021 President Biden’s aggressive new timetable for the sprint to full vaccine availability — his target for crossing the finish line is May 1 — is welcome news for Americans. But it obscures the fact that to truly protect people living in the United States, it’s essential to get shots into the arms of every person on the planet. During the second week of March, the world had a chance to engage in multilateral collaboration to share the vaccine technology necessary to reach global herd immunity. At a general meeting of the World Trade Organization , South Africa and India proposed a waiver of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement (TRIPS). That waiver would have temporarily suspended certain vaccine technology patent monopoly protections during the Covid-19 crisis and enabled access to the “recipe” and manufacturing protocols for effective vaccines to be shared with producers around the world. But it was sabotaged by trade representatives from the U.S., the United Kingdom, and other wealthy countries in the Global North who argued that current intellectual property rights were crucial to maintaining innovation in the drug-development market. Following the WTO’s failure to act, Biden’s best option to lead the world toward equitable vaccine access is by using his executive powers to extricate the Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson vaccine patents from the grip of stifling monopolies and license the Covid-19 vaccine technology to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Technology Access Pool , which would enable a rapid scale-up of generic vaccine manufacturing worldwide. This would give Biden a chance for a rare triple win: Licensing Covid-19 vaccine technologies to the pool would be a major victory for global social justice, a win for the self-interested American public, and a foreign policy victory for world order and stability. Vaccine apartheid is an apt description of the injustice built into the current and persistent inequalities in vaccine access. The map of current Covid-19 vaccine access overlays neatly onto much older maps of colonial conquest. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation report concluded that, “without redistribution of doses already purchased by high-income countries (through donations or other means) and/or increased support for manufacturing or production of additional doses, more than four in ten (41%) adults in the world will not be able to be vaccinated …” Patent protections for pharmaceutical companies like the Pfizer/BioNTech team, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson — whose Covid-19 vaccine development efforts were almost entirely funded by the U.S. and German governments — create unnecessary vaccine scarcity. By hoarding scarce vaccines, the U.S. and other Global North countries all but ensure continued concentration of Covid-19 risk, infection, and death among the most impoverished people in the world. While the U.S. has committed to charitably contributing $4 billion to the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) program, which is funding vaccine distribution in the world’s poorest nations, and has given doses to Mexico and Canada, these efforts are a drop in the bucket of what is needed. The best-case scenarios put COVAX at being able to supply only about 20% of the vaccines needed to cover the world’s vulnerable populations. The current arrangement is not simply unjust for the global poor, it is also self-defeating for the wealthy, vaccinated world. By restricting the flow of Covid-19 vaccines, rich countries in the Global North are allowing SARS-CoV-2 to circulate unchecked in poor countries and driving the conditions that accelerate the number of new Covid-19 viral mutations. These variants may be more contagious, more deadly, have the ability to reinfect Covid-19 survivors, and/or be resistant to the vaccines that are currently available. It’s likely just a matter of time before these new variants become dominant in the U.S., undercutting existing protective immunity and dashing the Biden administration’s hopes for a speedy end to this grim chapter in our history. Ensuring that the world gets vaccinated is also a self-interested matter of safeguarding the hard-won protections of the already-vaccinated. The world is beginning to see the political instability engendered by chronic, unchecked Covid-19 transmission. The U.S. is battling crises on all fronts, domestic and international. Accelerating global access to vaccines by licensing existing vaccines to the Covid-19 Technology Access Pool would be an essential and relatively easy win that builds on Biden’s own existing commitment to restoring global cooperation. Brazil’s Covid-19 havoc , ensuing economic collapse, political denialism, and rising instability foreshadows a possible future in which ongoing economic stagnation, mass death, and political dysfunction accelerate global disorder. Biden should listen to people in his own administration, including Anthony Fauci, his chief medical adviser on the pandemic, who recently answered “Yes, yes, and yes” when asked whether the U.S. should join the Covid-19 Technology Access Pool. Biden has repeatedly argued that the U.S. must regain its role as a global leader for justice and stability, and that internationally engaged leadership is the best way to keep Americans safe and prosperous. By licensing available vaccine technologies (which were largely financed by American taxpayers) to the pool, the Biden administration would immediately unlock untapped global vaccine production capacity. With multilateral efforts through the WTO now off the table, the president should use the emergency powers granted to him to bring American leadership once again to the world stage and at the same time avert catastrophe, promote justice, and protect the American people. Jonathan Shaffer is a cofounder of Right to Health Action and a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at Boston University.

We've got our work cut out for us in year two to end the pandemic and prevent this catastrophe from ever happening again.

ORGANIZING TO PANDEMIC-PROOF THE PLANET. Climate change and globalization are making pandemics come faster and get worse. Help us leverage real change, like a crowbar in the cracks of the systems exposed by COVID. YOUR DONATION IMPACT $28 Covers the cost of sending 25,000 petitions demanding action for COVID-19 $99 Funds a training on how to "birddog" politicians in the midterms, putting them on the spot with COVID stories and demands for action $700 One local direct action to protest almost seven million COVID deaths worldwide $46 Staff time costs of getting together one MOC meeting with constituents $350 Pays 1/2 cost for supplies, permits and sometimes bail for one of the in-person direct actions we organize around the country $1000 Covers a stipend for one of our State Captains and Regional Organizers, who organize hundreds of meetings with elected officials every month

MERCH STORE All proceeds fund our fight for a pandemic-free future APPAREL Styles and colors customizable for each design VIEW ALL APPAREL SHOP "Global Vaccine Justice Now." SHOP "COVID-19 was preventable." SHOP "Fight for a pandemic-free future." SHOP "Variants won't stop until the world is vaccinated" SHOP "Variants won't stop until the world is vaccinated" SHOP Tote Bag: "COVID-19 was preventable." ART // CRAFT 100% of proceeds benefitting Right to Health Action SHOP "Health justice is preventing the next pandemic" Block Print - Coral Red Hand-printed signed 11 x 14 inch block print art. Limited edition of 30 prints. Ships in 3-5 business days. SHOP "Health justice is preventing the next pandemic" Block Print - Blue ink H and-printed signed 11 x 14 inch block print art. Limited edition of 30 prints. Ships in 3-5 business days. SHOP "Health justice is preventing the next pandemic" Block Print - Mustard Yellow H and-printed signed 11 x 14 inch block print art. Limited edition of 30 prints. Ships in 3-5 business days. SHOP "Health justice is preventing the next pandemic" Block Print - Moss Green H and-printed signed 11 x 14 inch block print art. Limited edition of 30 prints. Ships in 3-5 business days. SHOP "Health justice is preventing the next pandemic" Block Print - Black ink H and-printed signed 11 x 14 inch block print art. Limited edition of 100 prints. Ships in 3-5 business days.