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DESCRIPTION:Protest Big Pharma! Public Health, Not Corporate Wealth!Free Harvoni for 
 Hep C Prisoners! Free Mumia Now! The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia 
 Abu-Jamal, together with the Oasis Clinic in Oakland, urges you to support 
 this demonstration to protest the outrageous price-gouging of Big Pharma 
 corporations, like Gilead Sciences!  Corporations such as Gilead hike-up 
 the cost for essential, life-saving medications such as the cure for the 
 deadly Hepatitis-C disease (HCV), in order to reap huge profits. Prisoners 
 are among the chief victims.   Join us at Gilead Sciences’ HQ!333 
 Lakeside Drive, Foster City12 Noon, Friday April 1stPublic transportation 
 is available -- Allow about 90 minutes or more:Take BART Richmond/Daly City 
 line to Milbrae Station,transfer to Caltrain Shuttle. Take this shuttle to: 
 353 Lakeside, then it’s a short walk to Gilead, at 333 Lakeside 
 Dr.  One pill a day for 12 weeks does the trick to cure Hepatitis-C with 
 a 95 percent success rate. But Gilead charges $1,000 per pill, or nearly 
 $100,000 for a full course of treatment!! Gilead Sciences, the “owner” 
 of Harvoni, which is the effective new cure for HCV, did not develop this 
 cure: it bought another company!  Now its profit gouging threatens many 
 thousands of lives! Obama Care does not protect against Big Pharma’s 
 outrageous price gouging! Nearly 5.2 million Americans are infected with 
 HCV, according to the Center for Disease Control. And political prisoner 
 Mumia Abu-Jamal is among as many as 700,000 prisoners who are victims. 
 Prisoners who are infected with Hep-C are among the least likely to receive 
 the newly available cure for the disease, due to both the exaggerated 
 price, and the refusal of prison authorities to provide proper health care 
 for inmates!Mumia Abu-Jamal was infected in 1981, after he was shot by 
 police and as a prisoner given a tainted blood transfusion. Falsely 
 convicted for killing a cop and sent to death row (he’s now serving life 
 without the possibility of parole), Mumia’s infection began to show 
 symptoms in 2015, which is typical for this slow-incubating but usually 
 fatal (if untreated) disease. Mass mobilization by supporters is the only 
 reason Mumia got any medical attention at all, and he is still denied the 
 curative Harvoni treatment which can ensure his survival! The PA prison 
 system is now trying to kill Mumia by medical neglect!In violation of 
 National Institute of Health (NIH) regulations, Gilead canceled its program 
 to supply a certain amount of the drug at low cost.   And the New York 
 Times reported that in "a complicated deal to sell hepatitis drugs at a 
 small fraction of their usual cost while imposing tight restrictions 
 intended to protect lucrative markets in the West... for the past year, 
 Gilead has sold the drug to the Egyptian government for about $10 a 
 pill."Mumia Abu-Jamal, though he nearly died for lack of treatment last 
 year, points out that he is only one of many. He supports the demands for 
 treatment of some 10,000 prisoners in Pennsylvania who suffer from HCV 
 infection. In a recent federal appeal, lawyers fighting for treatment of 
 Mumia brought out evidence in court of a secret PA Department of 
 Corrections (DOC) protocol which explicitly provides for observation, but 
 NO treatment, for HCV infected prisoners, until they are at death’s door 
 (if then)!    WE DEMAND: PUBLIC HEALTH, NOT CORPORATE WEALTH! NO 
 EXECUTION BY MEDICAL NEGLECT! FREE TREATMENT FOR HCV-INFECTED PRISONERS & 
 OTHERS NOW! JAIL DRUG PROFITEERS, FREE MUMIA! Labor Action Committee To 
 Free Mumia Abu-JamalPO Box 16222 • Oakland CA 94610 • 
 www.laboractionmumia.org510 763-2347            Mumia Is Innocent!  Free 
 Mumia!       \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/25/18784497.php
SUMMARY:Protest Big Pharma - Free Harvoni for Hep C Prisoners! Free Mumia Now!
LOCATION:Gilead Sciences’ HQ\n333 Lakeside Drive\nFoster City, California
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/03/25/18784497.php
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