Have YOU Taken Action Yet? Don’t let Hershey’s get away with it!
Boycott Hershey’s: A Week of Action
Join us for a worldwide week of action to raise awareness about the Hershey’s Boycott. With protests in New York City, Pennsylvania, Mexico City, and New Delhi, India this week, is the time to raise your voice against Hershey’s HIV discrimination.
This boycott is the result of growing outrage over a Hershey Co. funded-school, Milton Hershey School, for denying admission to a 13-year-old boy due to his HIV-positive status. Citing the boy as a direct threat to the “health and safety” of other students, AIDS activists around the world are outraged with this decision and are boycotting all Hershey products until the company does the right thing and denounces its discrimination.
AN ACTION A DAY…
Sign the Petition
- Sign the No Kisses for Hershey Petition on Change.org and share it with your Facebook friends.
- Change your profile picture to the “Boycott Hershey’s” image, which you can download here.
- Update your status to say that you are boycotting Hershey’s and share the campaign page. (www.endHIVstigma.org)
- Tweet the message: It’s shocking that #AIDS discrimination against a child still happens. Sign the petition: http://chn.ge/GEA5DD #BoycottHershey
- Tweet again using the hashtag #BoycottHershey and link to http://chn.ge/GEA5DD
Tumblr / Instagram / Pinterest
- Reblog or post this image: http://bit.ly/H9xekV & use hashtags #AIDS and #BoycottHershey
Ongoing
- Boycott all Hershey’s products (See a full list of products here.)
Boycott Hershey’s: A Week of Action
Join us for a worldwide week of action to raise awareness about the Hershey’s Boycott. With protests in New York City, Pennsylvania, Mexico City, and New Delhi, India this week, is the time to raise your voice against Hershey’s HIV discrimination.
This boycott is the result of growing outrage over a Hershey Co. funded-school, Milton Hershey School, for denying admission to a 13-year-old boy due to his HIV-positive status. Citing the boy as a direct threat to the “health and safety” of other students, AIDS activists around the world are outraged with this decision and are boycotting all Hershey products until the company does the right thing and denounce
s its discrimination.
AN ACTION A DAY…
Sign the Petition
- Sign the No Kisses for Hershey Petition on Change.org and share it with your Facebook friends.
- Change your profile picture to the “Boycott Hershey’s” image, which you can download here.
- Update your status to say that you are boycotting Hershey’s and share the campaign page. (www.endHIVstigma.org)
- Tweet the message: It’s shocking that #AIDS discrimination against a child still happens. Sign the petition: http://chn.ge/GEA5DD #BoycottHershey
- Tweet again using the hashtag #BoycottHershey and link to http://chn.ge/GEA5DD
Tumblr / Instagram / Pinterest
- Reblog or post this image: http://bit.ly/H9xekV & use hashtags #AIDS and #BoycottHershey
Ongoing
- Boycott all Hershey’s products (See a full list of products here.)
This video is from a protest today at the Hershey Candy Store in Times Square, New York.
A Hershey-funded boarding school in Pennsylvania rejected a 13-year-old boy for admission because he’s HIV-positive. You have to go all the way back to the 1980s to find AIDS discrimination like that. People are outraged.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the largest global AIDS organization, is calling for a BOYCOTT of all Hershey candy. We are asking people not to buy any Hershey candy until the company speaks out against AIDS discrimination at the Milton Hershey School and facilitates the boy’s enrollment at the school. Send a message to Hershey that AIDS discrimination is NOT acceptable.
Sign the petition at: http://www.change.org/petitions/no-kisses-for-hershey-end-hiv-stigma
Whether championing more effective AIDS policies or spearheading campaigns aimed at lowering drug prices, the AHF Speak Out community is a powerful group of advocates committed to taking on the most urgent issues in the AIDS fight today. Sign up to become a member and step up your advocacy this year.
This news report details concerns over an HIV prevention pill.
Tell drug maker Gilead and the FDA: There is No Magic HIV Prevention Pill!
Send your eletters TODAY. Go to:www.nomagicpills.org.
Your efforts are making a difference. Please re-blog.
These are select images of past marches for universal treatment & access for HIV/AIDS patients held prior to the International AIDS Conference.
Want to be a part of the “Keep the Promise on HIV/AIDS” March in Washington DC in July 2012? http://goo.gl/eMjsm
Facts on Gilead’s Greed:
· $6.5 billion in yearly revenues from AIDS drugs
· 36% profit margin – the highest in the industry
· $42 million in annual pay for CEO John Martin
· $10,600 annual price of Atripla for taxpayer-funded AIDS Drug Assistance Programs
· 8,785 people on waiting lists to receive lifesaving treatment
Given that Gilead produces these drugs “at cost” for a few hundred dollars per year, it can lower prices significantly and still make a huge profit, yet it has not.
Today AIDS advocates are asking Gilead Sciences to do their part to end this AIDS drug crisis.
Call Gilead at (650) 574-3000 and ask to speak with CEO John C. Martin.
Gilead must immediately lower prices for ADAP. Thousands of lives are at risk.
Jessica Reinhart
Grassroots Community Manager
J&J: No More Tears!
This morning we had approximately 15 protesters outside of Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We marched around the campus, stopping in certain prime locations chanting “J & J’s vices are high prices!”, “No More Tears!” and “We insist, lower the price of Prezista!”.
Johnson & Johnson employees were entering the building as we were protesting and many people watched from the train station. One particular employee on her cell phone crossed through the protest as we chanted.
A small protest but very energetic and loud.
Rome: An End to AIDS?
Omonigho Ufomata
Director, Global Advocacy and Policy
Like many of you, I was inspired by the results of the ground breaking HPTN 052 study that showed transmission of HIV can be reduced by up to 96% with early anti-retroviral treatment. The study gives us hope and concrete evidence that the epidemic can be reversed in this lifetime.
