Organized By Mel Reeves
Minneapolis (44.978270, -93.264839)
The Ebola crisis threatens to be the HOLOCAUST of our times. The lackadaisical attitude and slow response by the developed world is exacerbating the crisis. It's been predicted that 1.4 million people could be infected in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by January 2015. Experts say that if the virus is not controlled within the next 4 weeks we could have the disaster of our lives on our hands! We say Africa Counts! and Ebola ought to be fought with all the resources available and WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED. Rally with us! Again. A small group of concerned human beings showed up on October 16, we know that there are a lot more out there who are as heartbroken as we are over this crisis and who want to stand with us. So this time tell your friends, your co-workers, your family, to come and support and “stand in the gap”for our fellow human beings who are suffering and dying across the water. We CAN do something! We can urge the US and the West to speed up its response and save West African lives by "any means necessary" We demand: -The US and the West provide whatever financial resources are needed to develop an effective treatment for Ebola. This means perfecting the drug cocktail known as ZMapp which was given to the two white US medical workers and TKM-Ebola developed by the Canadian pharmaceutical Tekmira -The US and the West provide whatever financial resources to quicken the pace to make available an effective vaccine like GlaxoKlineSmith’s which reportedly won’t be made available in time according to latest reports to help end this epidemic. We say speed up the process and make it available for this epidemic. - The US and the West move WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED to provide promised medical facilities, medical supplies, medical equipment, ambulances, helicopters and whatever else is needed that will help end this crisis of our times. We want to rally people and say that Africa Counts! that people who live in Africa are just that, people, human beings. The advanced or developed world, the West,(Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US) owes much of its advancement to Africa and its resources beginning with the human gold produced by the depopulation of West Africa through the slave trade. European societies were further advanced when they were further enriched by their colonization of Africa. And nowadays the West still exports much of their resources from Africa, including to name a few; oil, gold diamonds, silver, uranium, iron ore, cobalt, rubber, cobalt and even the stuff cell phones are made from. We say it’s only fair that the West, including the US do all it can to help West Africa in this crisis. So far by the UN’s and World Health Organization’s own admission much of the effort to contain the virus has been late and insufficient. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/10/17/ebola-world-health-admits-mistakes Those living in the West know very well that when it puts its mind to something it can accomplish almost anything it wants, especially the US, which can wage war thousands of miles away at almost a moment’s notice. The US has invested trillions in making war, a small percentage of that could help end the Ebola crisis. Ebola has been around for 40 years, but yet there has been little progress in its treatment primarily because as several medical experts have pointed out, there has been no financial motivation for pharmaceutical companies to develop a vaccine or treatment. The African countries are simply too poor. This present Ebola crisis was recognized as a serious problem over seven months ago by several medical professionals in West Africa, but their cries for help were virtually ignored, now the US and other countries are making a show of the very late and somewhat insufficient help that they have promised. At this point of the hundreds of millions promised to be donated to help in this fight only $100,000 has actually been collected and that was donated by Colombia. And no one believes that this kind of foot dragging would have gone on if this disease had broken out in the US or Europe. We recognize that some commitment has been made but it’s not enough we want the US and the West to do all it can WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED to stem the tide of this disease, which ironically has the potential if it is not stopped in West Africa to become the plague of the 21st century. "If we are not for ourselves and our own who will be? If not us then who? If not now then when?" Sponsored by the Young People's Freedom & Justice Party