Rally Flyer, formating fixed

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

This is the public citizen flyer on the Act UP! / Citizens
Trade Campaign demo for Wed April 21.  Jamie


        ATTENTION: BIG RALLY for HOPE  and Against the African Growth
and opportunity Act

The First Big Trade Battle of the 106th Congress is looming in the House
of Representatives -- we expect a floor vote on HR-434 (the so-called
"Africa Growth and Opportunity Act" a/k/a NAFTA for Africa) as soon as
 the House leadership can schedule it after the recess.  We can beat 
this bad bill only if we raise our voices together in support of the 
progressive, pro-Africa alternative -- the Human Rights, Opportunity, 
Partnership and Empowerment for Africa Act.

HR-434 protects pharmaceutical corporate giants by providing incentives
for nations to adopt restrictive intellectual property rules that will 
keep the costs of AIDS treatments high.  It also promotes IMF-style 
austerity -- and the attendant cuts in public health spending.  
Weakening of African public health systems, or reforms that increase the 
cost of health care in Africa will have a severe impact on the HIV/AIDS 
community. AIDS deaths in  Sub-Saharan Africa are expected to approach
the total worldwide death toll to date.

HOPE for Africa reflects a more progressive and humane approach to the 
HIV/AIDS conditions in Africa.  In contrast to the corporate-sponsored
bill, HOPE contains three elements which address the epidemic in 
Sub-Saharan  Africa.  Title VI sec. 601 of HOPE will prohibit the U.S. 
from spending  funds to undermine African efforts to increase access
to needed  pharmaceuticals through intellectual property or competition
policies.  Moreover,

WHO:            YOU and hundreds of AIDS/HIV Activists from
                New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and DC,
                along with all local allies and affiliates of the 
                Citizens Trade Campaign

WHEN:   Noon -- Wednesday, April 21
                
WHERE:  McPherson Square     15th Street NW  between I and K Steets

For more information:

Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch     202.546.4996             

Citizens  Trade Campaign                202.546.4611

"If you don't go to another demonstration this year, you're not getting
out  enough!" 

   Erick Brownstein, Rainforest Action Network 




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Michelle Sforza
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
215 Pennsylvania Avenue, S.E.
3rd Floor
Washington, D.C. 20003
(202) 546-4996, ext. 302
(202) 547-7392 (fax)
msforza@citizen.org
www.tradewatch.org
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James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org