Author Archives: Peter Maybarduk

About Peter Maybarduk

Peter Maybarduk is a Washington, D.C.-based songwriter and a human rights lawyer.

Battling Pharma Around the Globe

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Peter Lima demoOctober 2013: Click here for an article I wrote about our access to medicines work in Public Citizen News. “By providing analysis and building relationships to influence what goes on inside the secretive Trans-Pacific negotiations, Public Citizen’s Global Access to Medicines Program has transformed key elements of the discussion.”

“A Ring Around the Atlantic” MMS Review

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A ring around the AtlanticMetro Music Scene: By turns a world music album, field recording, and power pop showcase, A Ring Around the Atlantic is thoughtfully written and orchestrated and features the standout production value of The Magpie Cage’s J. Robbins. Maybarduk’s voice, breathy and soft, reminds me of Hey Marseilles’ Matt Bishop and Michael Benjamin Lerner of Telekinesis. His songwriting is thought-provoking without being pedantic, helped by the album’s relentlessly catchy hooks and strong backing musicians.

Obama’s Trade Policy

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Peter Maybarduk

Peter Maybarduk, Public Citizen Global Access to Medicines Program Director

Our program at Public Citizen strives to keep medicines affordable for people around the world.

Sometimes the influence of money in politics gets in the way. For the past three years we have been monitoring secretive trade negotiations which could compromise health interests. Last week, New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg published an editorial criticizing the harm these negotiations could do to efforts to curb youth smoking and tobacco-related deaths.

From leaked documents and relationships with negotiators, we know that unfortunately the US government has proposed some very harmful measures. Together with Judit Rius Sanjuan of MSF / Doctors Without Borders I wrote this letter, published in the New York Times, online and print edition.

Unprecedented campaign launched against pharma company | The Guardian

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By Sarah Boseley as originally published in The Guardian
Sarah BoseleyThe multinational drug company Abbott is being targeted by health campaigners in a number of countries in a concerted campaign to try to break its monopoly on a valuable AIDS drug called Kaletra. …

Public Citizen in the USA is leading the charge, but campaigners in Brazil, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Colombia, Thailand, the Netherlands and elsewhere are all taking action – mostly by challenging Abbott’s monopoly in their own legal systems. One company is being challenged, over one drug, but Public Citizen believes the orchestrated attack has greater significance —>Continue reading