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Berkeley World AIDS Day Demo
On November 30, nealy 100 demonstrators marched from Roche Laboratories to Bayer in Berkeley on the eve of World AIDS Day to protest corporate greed, high drug prices, and drug patent monopolies.
On November 30, nealy 100 demonstrators marched from Roche Laboratories to Bayer in Berkeley on the eve of World AIDS Day to protest corporate greed, high drug prices, obscene profits, and drug patent monopolies.
The protest was attended by members of ACT UP/East Bay, the Gray Panthers, Global Exchange, Vote Health, Hemophilia Justice, Public Citizen, Art & Revolution, and others.
(Text and images by Liz Highleyman)
Putting the "world" back in World AIDS Day, activists called attention to the lack of access to AIDS drugs in poor countries due to drug patent monopolies held by big pharmaceutical companies. Several speakers noted the hypocrisy in the fact that while the US has consistently protected US firms from attempts by South Africa, Brazil, and others developing countries to produce cheap generic versions of patented AIDS drugs, the US government in October threatened to itself override Bayer's patent on the anthrax drug Cipro.
Speakers from Public Citizen, the Gray Panthers, and Vote Health emphasized that an estimated 71 million US residents -- including many seniors -- do not have prescription coverage and high no access to high-priced drugs. Public Citizen President Joan Clayton noted that while Big Pharma claims high drug prices are necessary to fund new drug research and development, in fact the companies spend 3 times as much on marketing, advertisiting, and administration, not to mention employing a small army of Capitol Hill lobbyists.
Members of Hemophilia Justice were also protesting the fact that many hemophiliacs contracted AIDS through contaminated blood factor produced by Bayer. Ken Baxter said that Bayer continued to sell the blood product (sometimes made from blood collected from prisoners) even after they knew it was contaminated, in order not to lose money.
The protest was attended by members of ACT UP/East Bay, the Gray Panthers, Global Exchange, Vote Health, Hemophilia Justice, Public Citizen, Art & Revolution, and others.
(Text and images by Liz Highleyman)
Putting the "world" back in World AIDS Day, activists called attention to the lack of access to AIDS drugs in poor countries due to drug patent monopolies held by big pharmaceutical companies. Several speakers noted the hypocrisy in the fact that while the US has consistently protected US firms from attempts by South Africa, Brazil, and others developing countries to produce cheap generic versions of patented AIDS drugs, the US government in October threatened to itself override Bayer's patent on the anthrax drug Cipro.
Speakers from Public Citizen, the Gray Panthers, and Vote Health emphasized that an estimated 71 million US residents -- including many seniors -- do not have prescription coverage and high no access to high-priced drugs. Public Citizen President Joan Clayton noted that while Big Pharma claims high drug prices are necessary to fund new drug research and development, in fact the companies spend 3 times as much on marketing, advertisiting, and administration, not to mention employing a small army of Capitol Hill lobbyists.
Members of Hemophilia Justice were also protesting the fact that many hemophiliacs contracted AIDS through contaminated blood factor produced by Bayer. Ken Baxter said that Bayer continued to sell the blood product (sometimes made from blood collected from prisoners) even after they knew it was contaminated, in order not to lose money.
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My apologies to the small portion of AIDS patients who actually got the disease by accident (ie. transfusion or accidentaly stuck with a needle, etc...)
AIDS is almost completely preventable. If people would pull their heads out of thier asses and be careful, we would not need "greedy" companies to make such drugs.
Unsuspecting wives, husbands and children get it from their spouses, parents. Plus, many are misled in how AIDS is spread. Plus, prostitutes (even child prostitutes) survive from day to day, and don't have the luxury of thinking about catching a disease that may kill months or years away.
On the one hand, multinational corporations are responsible for the Aids crisis to a big extent. On the other hand, they (especially the Pharma Industry) refuse to substantially contribute to solutions by, among other things, pricing medicaments out of reach of poor people.
THE GREAT HIV / AIDS HOAX
The multi-billion dollar AIDS/HIV fraud is based on two fabrications: that AIDS is a single disease and that it is caused by the HI virus or the "HIV virus" as some medical/media masterminds call it - perhaps they think the V in HIV stands for volcano.
In Japan "AIDS" is virtually unknown : yet, in random tests, 25% of people were found to be "HIV-positive".
HIV-positive response means nothing of any relevance to health: it can be triggered by vaccination, malnutrition, M.S., measles, influenza,
papilloma virus wart, Epstein Barr virus, leprosy, glandular fever, hepatitis, syphillis ... : over sixty different conditions.
Dr Robert E. Willner, inoculated himself with the blood of Pedro Tocino, a HIV-positive haemophiliac, on live Spanish television: an event which was not picked up the pharma-beholden British or US media.
The great HIV/AIDS lie was created by Robert Gallo who was found guilty of "scientific misconduct". "...instead of trying to prove his insane theories about AIDS to his peers...he went public. Then, with the help of
Margaret Heckler, former head of Health and Human Services, who was under great political pressure to come up with an answer to AIDS, the infamous
world press announcement of the discovery of the so-called AIDS virus came about.
This great fraud is now responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands... It was no accident that Gallo just happened to patent the test for HIV the day after the announcement...Gallo is now a multi-millionaire because of AIDS and his fraudulent AIDS test." Dr.
Willner.
By grouping together 25-plus different diseases and other allied factors -
pneumonia, herpes, candidiasis, salmonella, various cancers, infections, vaccine and antibiotic damage, amyl nitrate damage, malnutrition etc.and,
particularly in Africa, TB, malaria, dysentery leprosy and "slim disease" - and calling the whole thing an "AIDS epidemic", a multi-billion dollar/pound "AIDS research and treatment" racket has been created.
The mythical "HIV-induced AIDS plague" in the Third World generates huge sums of cash from Western relief organisations whilst smokescreening the
vaccine/drug boys, responsible for the carnage.
Every death of someone "HIV-positive" is recorded as an "AIDS death".
Periodically, the BBC/ITV/Press visit
Africa/Yugoslavia/Russia etc to
report on the "HIV/AIDS victims" and how they cannot afford the "life-saving AZT." Glaxo Wellcome's lethal drug, AZT, in combination with the diagnosis of
HIV-positive and the prediction, stated or implied, that - "You will die of AIDS" is one of the great pieces of Medical Black Magic - Voodoo Medicine at its most impressive: people have committed suicide on the
basis of the ludicrous diagnosis.
Pregnant women who are HIV-positive have been told to stop breast-feeding, dosed with AZT, have had abortions or have been sterilised. HIV-positive
babies who become ill -from vaccination or whatever - are automatically diagnosed as "suffering from AIDS".
"Considering that there is little scientific proof of the exact linkage of HIV and AIDS, is it ethical to prescribe AZT, a toxic chain terminator of DNA...to 150,000 Americans - among them pregnant women and newborn babies..? Rep.G Gutknecht US House of Representatives.
New Labour "Health" have now announced that all pregnant women in the UK will be "offered" a HIV test. Those who fall for the scam and who are diagnosed as "HIV positive" will be given the chance to have themselves and their unborn child permanently damaged by AZT etc. Pregnancy, itself, can cause a positive diagnosis.
AZT began as a "cancer drug" but was withdrawn for being too toxic: like being thrown out of the Gestapo for cruelty. Its effects include - cancer, hepatitis, dementia, seizures, anxiety, impotence, leukopaenia, , severe
nausea, ataxia, etc. and the termination of DNA synthesis. i.e. AIDS/death by prescription. AZT eventually kills all those who continue to take it.
"WARNING : Retrovir (AZT)...has been associated with symptomatic myopathy, similar to that produced by Human Immunodeficiency Virus..." Glaxo
Wellcome literature!
None of which stops the medical trade from pushing it on every trusting sap who is not ill to start with but is labelled with the "HIV-positive" nonsense and then destroyed by AZT; with "AIDS" getting the blame - and
more billions pouring in for the drug boys, vivisectors, animal breeders and the rest. The latest stunt is to give a "cocktail" of drugs - including AZT, of course, and at £12,000 per head, per year - to all homosexual men who are "HIV-positive".
A particularly good scam is to haul into court someone "guilty of deliberately infecting the victim with the 'HIV-Virus which causes AIDS' " which then develops into "full-blown AIDS" - no mention of vaccine,
antibiotic damage etc or full-blown AZT. Over 2000 - and rising, of the world's scientists are now disputing the HIV hoax, their efforts being continually suppressed by the AIDS establishment, the pharmaceutical/vivisection syndicate and their political and media lackeys