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Stalls at Reading Waterfest and East Reading Festival June 2018 and Earley Green Fair, August 2018

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We organised stalls on at Reading Waterfest and at E. Reading Festival. We highlighted our pharmaceutical campaign with a simple game. Participants were asked to fix price labels to three medicines in the years 2008/11 and in 2016. (The way the prices have been hiked is absolutely shocking.) We also organised a stall at Earley Green Fair on August 4th. Andrew Micklebrough coordinated that one. 
 
Matt Rodda, MP for Reading East visited our stall at East Reading Festival. He was shocked when he heard about the huge profits made by pharmaceutical companies and when he saw the enormous increase in the price of the three different medicines.
The first two pictures are from Waterfest and the third is from the East Reading Festival.
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Public Health not Private Wealth; Stopping the corporate grip over medicines 4th July

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Wednesday 4 July: Public Health not Private Wealth; Stopping the corporate grip over medicines
Radhika Patel from Global Justice Now spoke about the pharmaceutical campaign. The NHS is forced to fork out billions for medicines every year and patients around the world die from treatable conditions because they can’t afford the drugs they need. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable in the world.
7.30pm. RISC, RG1 4PS
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The Spider’s Web: 16th May

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We had an excellent event on 16th May, meeting John Christensen and watching the film ‘The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire’. We were impressed by John’s amazing knowledge and by his commitment to closing the loopholes which allow the injustice of tax-havens to continue.

John pointed out that the film is available to hire on Vimeo https://vimeo.com for just £3.01 and it will be available free on U-Tube from August. You can see more information about the film at: www.togethertv.com/blog/spiders-web-tax-haven-heart-britain

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For richer, for poorer? Trade Justice after Brexit

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7.30pm Wed 2nd May: ‘For richer, for poorer? Trade Justice after Brexit’ by Guy Taylor

Guy brought us up to date with the current situation. Our government is lining up new trade deals behind closed doors. Not even our members of parliament will be able to scrutinise them. There is particular concern that trade deals with India are likely to force India to accept tight intellectual property laws thereby making it too costly for them to continue replicating medicines at prices affordable to those who desperately need them around them world; there is fear that the US wants to privatise our NHS, and there is worry that talks are being held with regimes known for their human rights abuses. However more MPs are becoming aware of the situation and there is hope that amendments will be made to improve the Trade Bill.

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For richer, for poorer? Trade justice after Brexit?

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7.30pm Wed 2nd May: ‘For richer, for poorer? Trade Justice after Brexit’ by Guy Taylor

Guy is an excellent speaker. He will be able to bring us up to date with the current situation and will tell us what actions we can take.

As we know, our government is lining up new trade deals behind closed doors. Not even our members of parliament will be able to scrutinise them. We are particularly concerned that trade deals with India are likely to force India to accept tight intellectual property laws thereby making it too costly for them to continue replicating medicines at prices affordable to those who desperately need them around them world, with the US are likely to allow Trump to get his hands on our NHS, and talks are being held with regimes known for their humans rights abuses.

‘A Discussion about ‘the Violence of Borders’

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Tues 20th March: ‘A Discussion about ‘the Violence of Borders’ at The Outlook Pub, 76 – 78A Kings Road, RG1 3BJ

 

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Look at the following links:

1.) ‘7 reasons why we should have open borders’ by Aisha Dodwell

https://newint.org/blog/2017/11/29/why-open-borders

2.) ‘The Surprisingly Compelling Argument for Open Borders’ by Rutger Bregman http://fortune.com/2016/04/17/immigration-open-borders