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In all my years as an AIDS activist and person living with AIDS, I’ve never witnessed such repulsive and childlike behavior as what I’ve witnessed in Madison since the inception of Wisconsin HIV and ACT UP Wisconsin. Publicly labeling my good friend and colleague, Greg Milward, as crazy and having mental health problems is absolutely unconscionable. Not only is it a violation of the highest nature, but also it is absolutely deplorable, and we guarantee that this matter will be dealt with appropriately. Never have I met a man, with supposed “mental health problems”, turn out such truth and with such wisdom, conviction and courage. By libeling Greg Milward as crazy, AIDS Network, Mark Pocan and any other supporters who choose to jump on this bandwagon; you have deemed all of ACT UP Wisconsin as crazy. I personally take it as a compliment! Members of our coalition stand as determined as ever, and we will never ever be silenced in our efforts to expose the facts about a plummeting agency that refuses to deal with us. Mind you, this is an agency that is receiving conditional funding by the Wisconsin AIDS/HIV program -- and we’re the crazy ones? By deeming us crazy and embittered and spreading further lies about us, they continue to run from the truth and avoid having to tackle the grave issues-at-hand. Why does having to face Mr. Milward scare you so? Get it out in the open and stop this paltry behavior! Here’s to the crazy ones -- DEAL WITH US!

~ Bob Bowers

 
 
Check out these links:  Dan Curd and Karen Dotson do it again: Another weak annual appeal letter -- AIDS Network Case Manager “resigns”; questions remain  --  Karen Dotson’s problem with the truth  -- Karen Timberlake has turned a blind eye  -- All we want for Christmas is an AIDS service organization in southern Wisconsin...  --  This is another sign of a systemic failure of AIDS Network  --  Race card?! Why didn’t AIDS Network in Madison just come out & say “he resigned because we hired a black woman?” --  2009 World AIDS Day in Madison -- AIDS Network cannot rise to the level of service provision demanded of an AIDS service organization -- ACT UP Wisconsin is looking forward to the awards ceremony for Mark Pocan -- AIDS Network is allowing their institutional hatred of ARCW to trump the provision of quality HIV/AIDS services  -- Ellen Berz: Silencing the HIV community  --  Unanswered questions = presumed answers --  Representative Mark Pocan has refused to meet with ACT UP Wisconsin —unless Greg Milward is excluded   -- It’s nothing personal, Karen Dotson  --   Ellen Berz has failed as President of AIDS Network   --  A Capitol Offense  --  Thank you to Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin   --   AIDS Network: Quit hiding behind the check  --   Mission Accomplished! AIDS Network's pantry is now open to all with HIV/AIDS who are income eligible    --      Karen Dotson, Executive Director of AIDS Network, refuses to meet with ACT UP Wisconsin
 
Calling for the defunding of AIDS Network in Madison, Wisconsin by Caffeinated Politics

Report in the Badger Herald:

"HIV/AIDS activists clash over unspecified funding, limited services offered"
ACT UP frustrated over lack of communication with AIDS Network Board of Directors


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Comeback of AIDS Activism - Newsweek

 

"The Comeback of AIDS Activism"

ACT UP Wisconsin is featured on www.newsweek.com

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The stonewalling by Madison's AIDS Network continues. Thanks to POZ Magazine for continuing to recognize and appreciate the efforts of ACT UP Wisconsin and others. It’s heartening to know that there is a burgeoning swell of AIDS activism in the United States. ACTION = LIFE!

Read the February 2010 POZ article here.
 
 

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We are not crumbs!
We should not accept crumbs! We must not accept crumbs!

~Larry Kramer
 

AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin - Annual appeal letter

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AIDS activism in Madison, Wisconsin and the United States

The Madison PLWHA community will not
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This is the official website of ACT UP Wisconsin
We feel the need to state this to you, as AIDS Network in Madison has hijacked all other ACT UP Wisconsin domains.

SHAME SHAME SHAME!

 

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In the early years, ACT UP thrived on the fact that we were literally fighting for our lives. In 2009, with over 1 million of our Brothers and Sisters in the United States living with HIV and over 33 million on planet earth, I humbly ask you, are we not still fighting for our lives? AIDS is a scourge of pandemic proportions! If we don’t continue ACTing UP, who will? As the saying goes, “AIDS isn’t over until it’s over!”
 

Caffeinated Politics calls for defunding of AIDS Network in Madison, Wisconsin

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AIDS Network in Madison is receiving conditional funding by Wisconsin Department of Health Services

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