Student Week of Action for Global Access to COVID Tests and Treatments
Billions of people in low- and middle-income countries worldwide still don’t have access to the COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments that many Americans take for granted. This ongoing inequality is contributing to thousands of avoidable deaths each day, and is responsible for the COVID variants that are prolonging hardships for everyone.
This fall, the Biden administration and other governments will be making major policy decisions about whether to support expanding global access to COVID tests and treatments — or whether to maintain the status quo levels of inaccess that have proven highly profitable for pharmaceutical monopolies.
Students and others across the country will be taking action the week of October 3–7 to help build demand for the Biden administration to support partner demands on this issue immediately prior to a key World Trade Organization meeting. Please join us!
Sample Week of Action Activities
Monday, October 3: Global Test and Treatment Access Student Activist Briefing (national)
Tuesday, October 4: Campus Day of Education
Wednesday, October 5: Global Test and Treatments Letter Writing Day
Thursday, October 6: Rallies for Global Access to Test and Treatments
Friday, October 7: Global Twitter Storm for COVID Test and Treatment Access\
Anchor Actions
The University of Texas at Austin (10/4)
Pfizer World Headquarters w/ Columbia, NYU, CUNY & others (10/6)
Portland State University (10/6)
University of Washington (10/6)