ACTA may actually cause deaths...

[JackyG]

THE SECRET TREATY: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and Its Impact on Access to Medicines.

http://www.msfaccess.org/content/secret-treaty-anti-counterfeiting-trade-agreement-acta-and-its-impact-access-medicines

"ACTA is part of the enforcement agenda advanced by rich countries outside of multilateral norm-setting institutions. ACTA would impose limits on price-reducing generic competition and jeopardize the free flow of legitimate medicines across borders. These enforcement efforts enhance the rights of pharmaceutical companies at the expense of poor patients."


Here's a nice link that i'll just leave here:

http://boingboing.net/2012/02/09/kill-acta.html

Sign the above and automatically email your country's officials.


THAT is an example of our DEMOCRATIC governments putting the profits of corporations before human lives as a part of a bill they are trying to pass under society's noses.

 

[JackyG]

not only that it will also regulate seeds as well

monsanto will win

To elaborate:

http://judicial-corruption.net/2012/01/27/why-you-should-oppose-acta/

"I think the most dangerous part of this legislation is the protection of massive corporations like Monsanto that have been patenting genetics. This would allow for Monsanto to actually come after farmers in other countries for saving seeds, an offense that can actually result in up to $3 million in damages."

 

[Terminate421]

I love how our governments are trying to be all secret now-a-days. Somethings should be secret, but laws? Thats something that should be known.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

This was one of the first things that came to mind when I realized that ACTA was mainly about patents, with copyright being a side issue: all of the AIDS victims in third world countries who are going to die because they won't be able to get cheaply (and illegally) made generic AIDS medication. I didn't think about the genetically modified crops, though; what is this, Bladerunner?