Other people don't feel this pain. They want to make profit you see. The Defiance Campaign has three objectives -to save lives where possible, to draw public attention to patent abuse and profiteering by drug companies and to set a moral example for the government to follow. TAC wants to expose the forces of inequality and privilege, and to build a social movement to develop a just international regulatory system for intellectual property rights that places people above profits. The Defiance Campaign has three objectives - to save lives where possible, to draw public attention to patent abuse and profiteering by drug companies and to set a moral example for the government to follow.
Defiance campaigns have a long tradition in South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle.
During the 1950s, the African National Congress, the trade unions and many civil society bodies engaged in a range of non-violent actions of civil disobedience against apartheid. The notorious Pass Laws that confined black people to townships and reserves were a key target of defiance. Defiance campaigns led by the Federation of South African Women, the ANC, the Pan Africanist Congress and the Communist Party challenged these laws. TAC's Defiance Campaign against the drug companies builds on this tradition. South Africa would not be a democracy had Nelson Mandela, Robert Sobukwe, Lilian Ngoyi, Frances Baard obeyed the pass laws and other unjust legislation.