Free Dave Pasquarelli and Michael Petrelis! (tags)
The arrests of San Francisco alternative AIDS activists Dave Pasquarelli and Michael Petrelis and the hysterical charges of “criminal terrorism” against them are the work of a self-righteous city AIDS establishment supported by ordinarily progressive people who have totally bought the institutionalized lies about HIV and AIDS which Pasquarelli and Petrelis have sought to expose. Liberals and progressives need not only to come to their support as victims of a particularly blatant attempt at government repression, but to re-examine their own assumptions about AIDS and the industry that has grown up around it.
UCSF Calls in FBI to Stop ACT UP (tags)
Even if you hate ACT UP San Francisco, this should scare the hell out of you. The FBI and the all too powerful and profitable AID$ industry are going after activists. If you don't think this creates precedent to silence all direct-action civil liberties activists, we are all doomed.
Anti-Quarantine AIDS Activists Held On One Million Dollars Bail (tags)
First they came for the Middle Eastern/South Asian/Muslim people, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Middle Eastern/South Asian/Muslim. Then they came for the people with AIDS. . .