Cancer Patients Arrested for Protesting TPP and rise of Life Saving Drugs (Remember: Those who take Over Federal Facilities with Guns should NOT be arrested according to some)

http://www.alternet.org/activism/watch-cancer-patients-arrested-protesting-tpp-threatening-access-lifesaving-drugs

Condemning the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a “death sentence,” two cancer patients last week staged a civil disobedience at the headquarters of the Big Pharma trade group that lobbied to include medical monopolies in the mega-deal.

“The TPP will effectively take some patients backwards in time to the dark ages of cancer treatment," said Zahara Heckscher, a 51-year-old mother and author living with advanced breast cancer who staged the direct action. "It will prevent too many people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses from accessing the new treatments they need to stay alive.” 

On World Cancer Day last Thursday, Heckscher joined with Hannah Lyon, who is described in a press statement as a “29-year-old from California who is in treatment for aggressive cervical cancer.” Wearing shirts that read, “I have cancer. No TPP death sentence,” the two entered the Washington D.C., building that hosts the industry lobby group PhRMA, where they chanted, linked arms and refused to leave.

Surrounded by medical professionals and supporters, the two women were eventually arrested by police, but not before footage of their protest was captured. The video of the action, compiled by the watchdog group Public Citizen, can be seen below.