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ACT UP Wisconsin
| AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power |
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"We invaded
the offices of drug companies and scientific
laboratories and chained ourselves to the desks of those
in charge. We chained ourselves to the trucks trying to
deliver a drug company’s products. We liberally poured
buckets of fake blood in public places. We closed the
tunnels and bridges of New York and San Francisco. Our
Catholic kids stormed St. Patrick’s at Sunday Mass and
spit out Cardinal O’Connor’s host. We tossed the ashes
from dead bodies from their urns on to the White House
lawn. We draped a gigantic condom over Jesse Helms’
house."
~Larry Kramer |
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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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POZ Magazine - February, 2010:
"ACT UP’s Latest Act"
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Newsweek Online:
"The
Comeback of AIDS Activism"
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ACTING UP - POZ Magazine -
November, 2009:
ACT UP chapters reemerge to combat
AIDS apathy and service disparities
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Karen Dotson, executive director of
AIDS Network, pegs the “ACT UP
chapter as a handful of embittered
dissidents.”
Isthmus, May 21, 2009 |
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“My friends, we are a group of
caring, passionate, compassionate,
committed, infected and affected
individuals who know no bounds and
are willing to PUBLICLY and
courageously tackle the issues that
others, for whatever reason,
remain silent about and/or walk away
in antipathy, never having the
chance to have a public voice.”
Bob Bowers, May 22,
2009 |
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In 1987 with
AIDS deaths in the thousands and government policy still
criminally indifferent, activists formed ACT UP (AIDS
Coalition to Unleash Power) with the sentiment "turn
anger, fear, and grief into action. In March 1987, the
first AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) event
took place on Wall Street. In the 15 years since the
protest that shut down the world's financial center, ACT
UP has been at the forefront of public awareness. Their
demonstrations, die-ins, political funerals, marches,
and speeches were key in propelling issues related to
HIV/AIDS into major political and international topics.
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