Make Medicines Work: What We Need to Fight COVID-19 and Beyond

Jul
7:30pm
Make Medicines Work: What We Need to Fight COVID-19 and Beyond

By People's Action
TELL HHS TO END PHARMA MONOPOLIES AND MAKE MEDICINES WORK!
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Medicines can’t work if nobody can afford them. That’s why people all across the country are coming together to MAKE MEDICINES WORK.
Every new drug brought to market in the last decade was developed through public funding and investment. Yet pharmaceutical corporations are price-gouging patients, making potentially life-saving medications unavailable to so many people. Pharmaceutical corporations are now profiteering off the pandemic, disproportionately harming Black and brown communities. That won't work for us.
Join us on July 9, 2020 at 3:30 pm Eastern Time to learn about about this crisis, what we can do to fight COVID-19, and make live-saving medicine available for all.
We will hear from Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, Maine State Senator Rebecca Millett, experts on pharmaceutical monopolies, racial capitalism and our healthcare system, and grassroots leaders directly impacted by this crisis.
Speaker Bios
Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin
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Mandela Barnes serves as Wisconsin’s 45th Lieutenant Governor. He was elected on November 8, 2018. He is the first African-American to serve as a Lieutenant Governor in Wisconsin, and the second African-American to ever hold statewide office.
Within his current role, Lt. Gov. Barnes serves as the Chair of the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change while also serving as co-Chair of the New DEAL Climate Change Policy Group. The New DEAL is a national network of rising state and local elected leaders. The lieutenant governor uses a platform of sustainability and equity to fight for solutions that invest in opportunities and fairness for every child,
person, and family in Wisconsin, regardless of zip code.
State Senator Rebecca Millett, Maine
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Senator Rebecca Millett is serving her fourth and final term in the Maine Senate, representing South Portland, Cape Elizabeth and part of Scarborough. She serves on the state’s Education and Cultural Affairs committee.
LaDon Love
Executive Director of SPACEs In Action
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LaDon Love is a seasoned organizer and the founding Executive Director of SPACEs In Action a DC and Montgomery County membership based organization. Their focus includes creating health equity for the Black families and families of color, as well as, early learning and developmental supports for children 3 and under because the first one thousand days of life matter.
Maurice Weeks
Co-Executive Director, Action Center on Race and the Economy
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Maurice is the Co-Executive Director of ACRE. He works with community organizations and labor unions on campaigns to create equitable communities by dismantling systems of wealth extraction that target Black and Brown communities. Maurice has many years of community organizing experience on issues such as housing, revenue and budgets, policing and incarceration, corporate accountability and education justice.
Peter Maybarduk
Director of Access To Medicines program, Public Citizen
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Peter Maybarduk helps partners around the world overcome high-price pharmaceutical monopolies and secure the benefits of science, technology and culture for all. His work has yielded HIV/AIDS medicine price reductions, new state access to medicines policies and global shifts toward anti-counterfeiting policies that safeguard generic competition.
Alex Lawson
Executive Director, Social Security Works
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Alex Lawson is the Executive Director of Social Security Works, the convening member of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition— a coalition made up of over 340 national and state organizations representing over 50 million Americans.
Kerri Evelyn Harris
Executive Director, Delaware Alliance for
Community Advancement (DelACA)
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Kerri Evelyn Harris is a community advocate and organizer who uplifts causes that advance social and economic justice. Kerri workers directly with impacted communities as well as in concert with local and national organizations. Currently, Kerri serves as the Executive Director of Delaware Alliance for Community Advancement (DelACA). In 2018, she ran against Senator Tom Carper in the Delaware primary for US Senate. 
Additionally, Kerri is the National Committeewoman for the Delaware Democratic Party.
Carrie McBane
Community Organizer, Down Home North Carolina
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Carrie McBane moved to Western NC in May of 2005 and in the past two years since becoming a member and staffer has been outspoken with her experience of living in the Medicaid Gap amongst other issues.  Her most recent community recognition was the invitation to become a member of the Board of Directors for Meridian Behavioral Health Services in Sylva, NC.  Carrie now spends her time and energy in service to her community through Down Home NC.
Eleana Molise
Mental Health Organizer, ONE Northside
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Eleana Molise (she/her/hers) is an organizer with the Mental Health Justice Team at ONE Northside in Chicago. She is committed to building a healthcare system that works for all of us that puts actual care over profits. She is just as committed to making sure that mental healthcare is seen and treated as an integral part of health over all and organizes a team of people living with mental illness in Chicago to do just that.
Erin Jackson
Executive Director/Co-founder, Alaskans Take a Stand
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Erin Jackson is the Executive Director and co-founder of Alaskans Take A Stand and is also the Statewide Organizer for the movement to recall Alaska’s governor.  She was raised in Anchorage, Alaska where she currently resides with her family. Erin has an extensive background advocating for a variety of non-profits and is working on a degree in Political Science with an emphasis in Social Justice Studies.
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