Members of Global Justice Cambridge joined with Global Justice Youth Network Cambridge and other campaigners outside AstraZeneca’s Cambridge office, to call for a People’s Vaccine. The line-up of speakers included Heidi Chow from Global Justice Senior Campaigns Manager, Prof. Priyamvada Gopal from Cambridge University, and Sanghanath from the Movement Against Racism.
Contributions to the day from Global Justice Cambridge members were a song and a flash presentation on the work of Jonas Salk. His vaccine against polio worked all the better for not being patented. That disease has now almost completely disappeared.
The protest had a great carnival atmosphere for most of its length, in rain and shine — see the account on Global Justice Now’s site — but towards the end there were provocations and arrests. We (Aidan and Clare Baker) can’t claim to have been eyewitnesses of them.
