Easing into a New Normality of the Crisis (tags)
With the intertwining of the Corona and economic crises, massive distribution struggles are already looming. Society, in a collective effort to prevent illness, has downsized its economic activity. This collective decision must not serve to enrich a few. The radical taxation of the great fortunes is indispensable.
Fri 07/27 Protest DEA closure of Cannabis Clubs (tags)
come protest the DEA raiding cannabis clubs across Los Angeles
Memorial Service for Ferd Eggan (tags)
Ferd Eggan, writer, activist, revolutionary, died 07/07/07 of liver cancer related to AIDS.
ACT UP Photo Show- official opening 06/16 (tags)
The ACT UP reunion and pre-opening opening was lovely. The actual official opening will be even better. Chuck Stallard's photo exhibit.
"Silence = Death: Los Angeles AIDS Activism 1987–2007″ (tags)
ACT UP Reunion Party and Press Preview Chuck Stallard's Retrospective
The organization known as "Act Up" has done it again!
Image, message and empire (tags)
Being effective is not just about getting numbers to rallies and events: Why I believe we should build on the connection between American Empire and this war
Global Day of Protest against Coca-Cola: O17 (tags)
In Barcelona, major AIDS groups from across the globe issued a call for actions on October 17th demanding AIDS drugs for Coca Cola's 100,000 employees and bottling plant workers in Africa. The numbers of countries and cities planning actions is growing rapidly, and the company is running scared. Here's how you can get involved in the Global Day of Protest.
ACT UP Member Responds to Pharmaceutical Propaganda & Media Lies (tags)
The media is burying the scary prospect of quarantine for PWAs behind ACT UP criticism. ACT UP critics receive funding from the same pharmaceutical companies that funded Bush for president. Project Inform's Martin Delaney, ACT UPs' most ineffective lying critic, gets almost half his income from pharmaceutical companies!
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. . .
Felony Trials for GOP Protesters Begin With Kate Sorensen-- Accused "Ringleader" (tags)
Kate Sorensen, a long-time organizer and member of the AIDS activist group, ACT UP Philadelphia, was arrested on August 1, 2000, held on $1 million bail, later reduced to $100,000, and kept in jail for 10 days. She will stand trial this week on four felony charges: riot, risking catastrophe, criminal mischief, and conspiracy.