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BREAKTHROUGH FOR PANDEMIC PREVENTION Pandemic prevention bill makes it to the critical next step of legislative process -- we're on the way to making history. November 9, 2021 Your activism BROKE the hold two senators placed on the historic bill we’ve worked so hard to pass. Because of YOUR actions, we are that much closer to passing the International Pandemic Preparedness and COVID Relief Act (S.2297). But we’re not out of the woods yet. With Congress (and a lot of us!) consumed by the Build Back Better agenda, there are only a few weeks remaining to get this bill across the finish line. On Friday Nov 5, R2H Action worked with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to successfully submit S. 2297 as an amendment to the National Defense Authorizing Act (NDAA). The NDAA is a must-pass bill that will see a vote before the end of the year. Now the fight is to make sure that Senators Reed and Inhofe, the Chair and Ranking Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, are willing to incorporate our bill as a “managers amendment”. If we are successful, it means we insert our bill text into the underlying NDAA bill — and Senators can only object to our bill by voting against the entire NDAA. This is HUGE progress and only possible because of our activists working tirelessly around the country. Thank you for your continued energy and support towards this critical organizing. Together, we are going to make history and prevent pandemics of the future! INACTION IS NOT AN OPTION • GET S. 2297 ACROSS THE FINISH LINE RALLY TO STOP COVID, PREVENT THE SEQUEL Washington DC • NOON • WED NOV 17th • RSVP NOW In D.C. or the surrounding area? Join us at Capitol Hill to rally for the passage of our bill on November 17th! LEARN MORE & RSVP

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Declaración del derecho a la salud contra la violencia racial Lloramos y nos solidarizamos con la familia y amigos de George Floyd, Breonna Taylor y otras víctimas de la violencia patrocinada por el estado, así como con los valientes manifestantes en esta lucha contra los asesinatos en masa cargados racialmente. Sus muertes trágicas son el resultado de una pandemia, una de violencia sistémica, brutal, contra BIPOC (negros e indígenas de color), sancionada por las leyes, políticas y prácticas de nuestro país. Vemos la injusticia de los presupuestos policiales hinchados y militarizados y la falta simultánea de inversión en una respuesta equitativa de COVID-19. Vivimos en un país en el que todos nuestros sistemas, desde la vigilancia policial hasta el encarcelamiento, la atención médica y más, se esfuerzan no solo por devaluar a las personas negras, sino también por matarlas. Estas atrocidades son responsables de miles de muertes que afectan desproporcionadamente a las comunidades BIPOC. Como organización comprometida con el derecho a la salud, reconocemos el racismo como una pandemia y una crisis de salud pública. Prometemos comprometernos con la responsabilidad actual de desmantelar el racismo: la enfermedad estructural y genocida diseñada intencionalmente para secuestrar la riqueza, el poder y la salud de los blancos, a expensas brutales del BIPOC. Prometemos aprender, comprender y aprovechar los diversos privilegios y posiciones que tenemos para la justicia y la equidad. Trabajaremos continuamente para ser antirracistas. Prometemos confrontar y trabajar para erradicar la realidad de que el racismo y la lucha contra la negrura viven dentro de nosotros y construir todos los sistemas que están separados. Continuaremos luchando por un mundo libre de violencia patrocinada por el estado y políticas irresponsables de salud global y doméstica que roben la vida de las mismas personas de quienes se tomó, y continúa siendo, la riqueza de los poderosos.

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!

FIRMA LA PETICIÓN During this training, Right to Health organizers were joined by Senator Elizabeth Warren's staff to demonstrate how grassroots activists can organize a meeting with elected officials to advocate for the People's Pandemic Prevention Plan. The lessons here can be used for any issue. R2H Action activists meet with our elected officials hundreds of times per month. Please sign up here to join!

067A9377 067A9351 067A9580 067A9377 1/6 PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: [Jon Shaffer] [(503) 789-4677] [jon.shaffer@r2haction.org ] ​ WHAT: ~20 activists dressed as henchmen from the hit Netflix series “Squid Game” delivering prop “quarterly earnings” money to Moderna headquarters; release of parody “leaked footage ” of Moderna leaders celebrating Biden’s unwillingness to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel vaccine technology sharing WHEN: 9am Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 WHERE: Moderna Headquarters, 200 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 11/04/2021, Cambridge, MA -- As Moderna held its quarterly shareholder meeting Thursday morning, global vaccine equity activists dressed as antagonists from the hit Netflix series “Squid Game” descended upon the Moderna headquarters to deliver mock “quarterly earnings” in the form of wheelbarrows and briefcases full of cash. According to the creator of “Squid Game, global vaccine access disparities are a facet of the unequal global economic order the series critiques. ​ The activists also released parody “leaked footage” from the morning’s shareholder meeting, in which Moderna leaders remark that a prolonged pandemic is in their financial interests and celebrate President Biden’s unwillingness to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel the company to share its technology with other manufacturers in the US and around the world. Numerous global health leaders have recently pressed President Biden to use the Defense Production Act to scale mRNA vaccine manufacturing by an additional 8 billion doses per year to meet global supply needs--an action Biden has so far been unwilling to take. ​ The activists’ parody video features a clip from January of top White House COVID advisor Anthony Fauci stating the need to produce “billions and billions of doses of vaccines so that the poorest country can have the same access to vaccines as we do in New York or Washington DC.” President Biden ignored this advice, the activists argued, instead leaving vaccine supply decisions to companies like Moderna, whose limited production this year has been entirely claimed through orders from governments in wealthy nations. ​ Today, approximately 76% of COVID vaccine doses have been administered in high- and upper-middle income countries, while just 0.6% of doses have been administered in low-income countries, according to the New York Times COVID vaccination tracker . Approximately 3 billion people have yet to receive a single dose. Rich countries have delivered more booster doses in three months than low-income countries have delivered first doses all year. Moderna’s chairman recently announced the company will not share its secret vaccine recipe with other manufacturers. A recent New York Times investigation found 10 strong candidates in developing countries likely capable of making the Moderna vaccine if they had its recipe. Moderna has yet to deliver a single dose of its vaccine commitments to COVAX, the primary vaccine distribution mechanism for poor countries, a COVAX spokesperson said last week . ​ Thursday’s demonstration is the latest in a series of protests calling on vaccine makers to share technology and for President Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act to compel them to do so. Last week activists slept outside the home of White House COVID Czar Jeff Zients demanding action on scaling vaccine manufacturing. On October 21, activists created a mock “Pfizer graveyard” outside the home of CEO Albert Bourla in New York. In September , activists held dual press conferences on global vaccine inequity in front of 12 foot tall piles of prop human bones outside the homes of Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain. ​ ​ PRESS CLIPS: Among other media hits, this action was on the front page of the Boston Globe and featured in Democracy Now! (clip starts at 5:20) ​ MORE: www.vaccinesquidgame.com Activists: Moderna Plays Squid Games with Global Vaccine Inequity

R2H Action February All Hands Meeting All Hands on Deck to Build a Pandemic Free Future! Featuring Kristin Urquiza with Marked By COVID Remarks from Sola Adenekan and R2H State Captain Tulika Singh WEDNESDAY • FEB 24, 2021 • 8:30PM ET | 5:30PM PT Join Right to Health Action for our first-ever All Hands Meeting on Wednesday, February 24th 2021. During this one-hour event, we will center ourselves in a vision for a pandemic free future and mobilize into powerful action around the People’s Pandemic Prevention Plan . ​ We are honored to welcome back Kristin Urquiza, co-founder of Marked By COVID , and Deputy Director of Mighty Earth, about harnessing her fear, anger and hopelessness about losing her father to fuel her actions to stop COVID-19, build back better and stop the pandemics of the future. We will also hear fierce stories about leveraging loss into action from award-winning filmmaker Sola Adenekan , as well as R2H Action State Captain Tulika Singh . We need all hands on deck in order to build a bold movement strong enough to tackle systemic issues of health inequity! We hope you will join us for this critical moment. ​

Declaración del derecho a la salud contra la violencia racial April 1, 2022 Contact: Alicia Stromberg, alicia.stromberg@r2haction.org Lloramos y nos solidarizamos con la familia y amigos de George Floyd, Breonna Taylor y otras víctimas de la violencia patrocinada por el estado, así como con los valientes manifestantes en esta lucha contra los asesinatos en masa cargados racialmente. Sus muertes trágicas son el resultado de una pandemia, una de violencia sistémica, brutal, contra BIPOC (negros e indígenas de color), sancionada por las leyes, políticas y prácticas de nuestro país. Vemos la injusticia de los presupuestos policiales hinchados y militarizados y la falta simultánea de inversión en una respuesta equitativa de COVID-19. Vivimos en un país en el que todos nuestros sistemas, desde la vigilancia policial hasta el encarcelamiento, la atención médica y más, se esfuerzan no solo por devaluar a las personas negras, sino también por matarlas. Estas atrocidades son responsables de miles de muertes que afectan desproporcionadamente a las comunidades BIPOC. Como organización comprometida con el derecho a la salud, reconocemos el racismo como una pandemia y una crisis de salud pública. Prometemos comprometernos con la responsabilidad actual de desmantelar el racismo: la enfermedad estructural y genocida diseñada intencionalmente para secuestrar la riqueza, el poder y la salud de los blancos, a expensas brutales del BIPOC. Prometemos aprender, comprender y aprovechar los diversos privilegios y posiciones que tenemos para la justicia y la equidad. Trabajaremos continuamente para ser antirracistas. Prometemos confrontar y trabajar para erradicar la realidad de que el racismo y la lucha contra la negrura viven dentro de nosotros y construir todos los sistemas que están separados. Continuaremos luchando por un mundo libre de violencia patrocinada por el estado y políticas irresponsables de salud global y doméstica que roben la vida de las mismas personas de quienes se tomó, y continúa siendo, la riqueza de los poderosos.

WORLD BANK RATIFIES HISTORIC GLOBAL PANDEMIC FUND But R2H/Biden breakthrough threatened by the exclusion of poor countries and neglect of spillover prevention. June 30, 2022 Press Contact: Alicia Stromberg | 763-258-4803 | alicia.stromberg@r2haction.org Paul Davis | 202-817-0129 | paul.davis@r2haction.org [Washington, DC] Today the World Bank ratified a historic new global financing mechanism to prevent and prepare for pandemics. Right to Health Action, the nation’s largest grassroots COVID group, has fought for this since the start of the pandemic. The group strongly and commends the Biden administration for pushing a “global fund to pandemic-proof the planet" near to the finish line, with vital support from Indonesia's President Joko Widow, current G20 Chair. ​ However, the group also criticizes the World Bank’s stark exclusion of low- and middle- income countries, as well as front-line civil society organizations. In addition, they condemn the Bank’s potentially exclusive focus on containing the spread of diseases, after an outbreak has already happened, and neglect of additional action to prevent outbreaks from happening in the first place. R2H Action's recommendations to the World Bank can be found here . ​ “The Biden Administration is poised to deliver a historic win for the country and the world,” said Akshita Siddula, Right to Health Action’s co-founder and Managing Director. “R2H Action has been demanding a global fund to stop pandemics since the earliest weeks of lockdown, and we are excited about a new day dawning. But neither we nor Joe Biden can take a victory lap when success is jeopardized by the World Bank’s proposal to literally exclude the most important voices, and leave out some of the most important work,” said Siddula. ​ “An enduring breakthrough like this is incredibly important, and these moments don’t come often,” said R2H Action Policy Director Paul Davis. “We need the White House to make sure that uninterrogated bias on the part of the World Bank and the global health establishment does not set up this initiative to fail. An exclusive focus on stopping the spread, rather than stopping the outbreaks, accepts that ‘poor people just die’, and is as offensive as the earlier ‘expert consensus’ that AIDS treatment was simply impossible in Africa,” said Davis, who was involved in successful efforts 20 years ago to launch U.S. global AIDS programs. “We must fund comprehensive community plans to prevent outbreaks, rather than only responding when it’s too late,” said Davis. ​ Activists decry the Bank’s assertion that ‘conflict of interest’ justifies excluding the same countries and communities who will shoulder primary responsibility at the front lines of zoonotic spillover. R2H Action also notes that the World Bank is proposing to set itself up as account holder, administrator and implementer in a leaked copy of a note to its Board . Nowhere in its board memo, or a roundly criticized white paper circulated in late May, does the Bank propose that the new fund actually give money directly to countries or communities most affected. ​ “The White House has led this effort and should be proud. But the Bank is potentially setting up the new pandemic fund for expensive, deadly failure,” said Pranav Savanur, Right to Health Action Policy Co-chair and Senior Fellow. “A strategy that merely contains outbreaks, rather than preventing them, is like building a wall around developing countries to keep new diseases from inconveniencing wealthier nations. By only responding to outbreaks, we are content to merely send buckets of water to a burning building, to keep the flames away from the gated community next door.” ​ “Until we put out the match by getting serious about stopping zoonotic spillover, the new fund cannot succeed,” said Mr. Savanur. ​ Right to Health Action believes that pandemics are not inevitable, and are the product of policies. Fortunately, policies can be changed. ​ Pandemics emerge from uncontrolled disease outbreaks, caused overwhelmingly when a pathogen “spills over” from wildlife to humans. Spillover events are accelerating and intensifying as tropical forests are destroyed to extract profitable raw materials, often displacing Indigenous people from ancestral lands in the process. ​ In summary: ​ The fund should serve as a pooled funding pot to which countries and civil society apply, in most cases, jointly. Funds should be provided to implement comprehensive national country pandemic prevention plans. Money is primarily directed towards local community groups and the public-sector, rather than multilateral agencies or development banks. Pandemic Fund should include an equal number of donor countries and low/middle income ‘implementing countries’, with additional protected seats for civil society representing NGOs from the Global North and Global South, as well as board seats for Indigenous people and stigmatized populations. Inclusive board seats should be in place from the beginning, in the design stage, rather than as ‘observers or advisors, brought in after the parameters and scope of work is already set in stone. The fund should invest in and bring to scale proven pandemic prevention models that have demonstrated steep reductions in spillover risk and enormous payoffs in community health, poverty alleviation, and carbon conservation simply from providing jobs and healthcare for communities in tropical forests. The fund should also provide support for regulation and incentives for commercial wildlife trade and markets, as well as protection of tropical forests in the top 500 zoonotic spillover hotspots, adopting measures Brazil used to reduce deforestation (and roughly commensurate risk of spillover) by 70%. “We are grateful that Joe Biden listened, and his Administration should be very proud to have gotten a landmark initiative this close to launching,” said Akshita Siddula. “But there are some flaws in the foundation that mean the whole structure could collapse. We urge the White House to intervene now to course correct the World Bank before it’s too late.” ​ Editor's note: Right to Health Action is a 50-state grassroots movement of 150,000 people impacted by COVID, fighting to end the current pandemic, and leverage this moment for the changes we need to stop the pandemics of the future. ​ -030-

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Climate change and deforestation are the largest drivers of new pandemics. DEMAND ACTION NOW! Deforestation and environmental degradation are overwhelmingly largest reasons why pandemics have been coming faster and getting worse. Please join this petition urging President Biden and Congress pass $2.5 billion to stop new outbreaks at the source, before they start, by supporting Indigenous and local rainforest communities against logging. ​ By providing human rights support for healthcare and job training in zoonotic spillover hotspots, we can stop new outbreaks—and take a big bite out of climate change at the same time.