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Gerry Scoppettuolo
Mar 28, 2025, 11:04:07 PMMar 28
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ACT-UP!
Friends and Comrades
We are calling this zoom meeting tomorrow night at 6 pm link https://cambridgecollege.zoom.us/j/83953211514. The original idea being to reorganize ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) which was the most militant, and widespread fighting grassroots group in the U.S. from 1987 – 1992. We had to be! Our friends and lovers were dying every day from HIV/AIDS, the government abandoned us, our communities were under siege, and we also had to deal with terrible stigma and oppression for being Queer, Black, Brown and/or needle using heroin addicts. Hundreds of thousands here died horrible deaths needlessly.
And now the Trump cuts, unless reversed, are bringing all that horror back to South Africa, the Sudan and here in the U.S. where CDC programs are being cut. Decades of struggle and preventable death lie before us unless we militantly fight back.
At the same time, however, the political crisis before us is so all-encompassing that merely resisting one horror seems almost pointless.
Therefore, at this meeting on Sunday night you will be asked to consider how a new ACT-UP Coalition might serve those living with or at risk for HIV but find ways to build a coalition of solidarity to recognize and fight for all working class people under the gun.
An injury one is an injury to all!
- Banner of the Knights of Labor, an early industrial union, 1876 – 1910. which at its peak in 1886 had 700,00 members and broke ground, uniting Black, white and women workers in the U.S.
Please view United in Anger, a powerPul documentary of the history of ACT-Up and see that our past may now be our future
zoom meeting tomorrow night at 6 pm link https://cambridgecollege.zoom.us/j/83953211514. The original idea being to reorganize ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) which was the most militant, and widespread fighting grassroots group in the U.S. from 1987 – 1992. We had to be! Our friends and lovers were dying every day from HIV/AIDS, the government abandoned us, our communities were under siege, and we also had to deal with terrible stigma and oppression for being Queer, Black, Brown and/or needle using heroin addicts. Hundreds of thousands here died horrible deaths needlessly.
And now the Trump cuts, unless reversed, are bringing all that horror back to South Africa, the Sudan and here in the U.S. where CDC programs are being cut. Decades of struggle and preventable death lie before us unless we militantly fight back.
At the same time, however, the political crisis before us is so all-encompassing that merely resisting one horror seems almost pointless.
Therefore, at this meeting on Sunday night you will be asked to consider how a new ACT-UP Coalition might serve those living with or at risk for HIV but find ways to build a coalition of solidarity to recognize and fight for all working class people under the gun.
An injury one is an injury to all!
- Banner of the Knights of Labor, an early industrial union, 1876 – 1910. which at its peak in 1886 had 700,00 members and broke ground, uniting Black, white and women workers in the U.S.
Please view United in Anger, a powerfull documentary of the history of ACT-Up and see that our past may now be our future
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