ACT UP 25th Anniversary Action-April 25th 11am NYC
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Jennifer Flynn
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Dear Colleagues:
I'm writing with hopes that you will join me and Health GAP in supporting this important mobilization-ACT UP NY's 25th Anniversary Action on April 25th. Their media advisory is below. We all owe ACT UP so much and this 25th Anniversary march is perfectly timed to take advantage of the exciting science and the opportunity before us to end the AIDS pandemic. ACT UP NY, will be joined by Occupy Wall Street and has chosen to join the global demand for a financial speculation tax so that we can generate revenue to pay for HIV prevention, treatment and services that we need to end AIDS (along with housing for all, education, jobs, fighting climate change, an end to the war on women, etc). There is tremendous excitement around ACT UP right now largely due to the movies "United in Anger" and "How to Survive a Plague". It's up to us, who have continued to fight for all of these years, to capitalize on the momentum. We at Health GAP feel that supporting this demonstration is one (fun) way to do that. I hope to see you in NYC on April 25th, 11am, at City Hall.
If you are outside of NYC and would like to organize your local community to attend this demo, there is a national ACT UP call taking place on Thursday (tomorrow) at 9pm eastern. You can dial into 605-477-2100 x218356#
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Media Advisory
ACT UP New York
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
332 Bleecker Street PMB G5
New York NY 10014
Contact: Chip Duckett
Telephone: 917 865 4120
Email: me...@actupny.com
SAVE THE DATE — APRIL 25TH 2012
ACT UP New York 25th Anniversary Action
ACT UP COMMEMORATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY
BY RETURNING TO WALL STREET FOR MASSIVE PROTEST
To Be Joined by “OWS” — For an End to Financial Crimes
Against People with AIDS and the 99%
April 2, 2012 (NEW YORK) — To commemorate its 25th anniversary, the AIDS activist group
ACT UP will return to its roots and stage a massive demonstration and march on Wall Street
— on Wednesday, April 25 — starting at 11 am at City Hall and ending on Wall Street.
Hundreds of protestors are expected to converge for a daylong siege in Lower Manhattan.
ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) will be joined by Occupy Wall Street (OWS),
the organization making history this year and last with its public encampments and series of
protests against the global financial community. The groups are joining forces to pump up the
volume on a growing nationwide outcry for a "Financial Speculation Tax" (Fi.S.T.) on Wall
Street.
The groups are calling on local, state, and federal legislators to "give Wall Street the FiST,"
which is needed to fill AIDS funding gaps and — once and for all — provide universal healthcare
in the US. It’s time for effective healthcare to be made available to everyone — to the 99%, not
just the 1%.
The Fi.S.T. does not target individual investors, and would not affect regular bank transactions.
Instead, it would place a small tax — a mere fraction of one percent — on speculative trading
by Wall Street investment banks, hedge funds and other large financial institutions.
HIV treatment saves lives — by preventing new infections and keeping those already infected
from reaching end-stage AIDS. However, of all people worldwide in need of access to HIV
treatment, only 44% have it. More than 8 million people do not. In the United States today,
3,840 people who qualify for federal assistance to pay for HIV treatment are on waiting lists —
or in other words, are at risk of dying from AIDS.
"The AIDS crisis is not over," says veteran ACT UP New York member Ann Northrop. "But,
we know it could be," she adds.
AIDS treatment — when combined with simple prevention interventions — is the key to
breaking the back of the epidemic worldwide. In addition to saving lives, early HIV/AIDS
treatment reduces the risk of transmission of HIV by 96%. And so, with sufficient funding for
treatment and prevention, we can turn the tide on AIDS. Globally, HIV/AIDS has claimed over
30 million lives.
Both ACT UP and OWS suggest the revenue from a Financial Speculation Tax would be
significant — potentially in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The revenue from this tax should
be used to fund the end of the AIDS pandemic, i.e. to fill in US budget gaps in the fight against
HIV/AIDS at home and abroad. It should be used to provide treatment, services and prevention
to thousands of Americans and millions around the world. The groups also say the tax could
help pay for universal healthcare in the US.
“We are organizing this historic united front to bring our message to governments and to Wall
Street financiers who are sitting on the key to ending the AIDS epidemic,” according to Eric
Sawyer, a founding member of ACT UP New York. "There is no excuse. We have the know-
how to end AIDS. It is lack of funding and political will that keeps us from reaching universal
access to HIV treatment worldwide."
Additional organizations are expected to join the demonstration in New York City, including
Housing Works, Health GAP, National Nurses United, OWS Healthcare for the 99% Working
Group, Visual AIDS, MIX NYC, Le Petit Versailles, Queerocracy, Queering OWS and others.
The action will be in New York on April 25th — but the need is global. And, the time is now.
AIDS is now. END AIDS NOW!
ACT UP & Occupy!
Tax Wall Street!
End AIDS!
The AIDS crisis is not over — but it could be! Tax Wall St. to End #AIDS #ACTUP #OWS
#OccupyAIDS #OccupyWallSt #TaxWallSt #EndAIDS #April25 #ActUp25 #A25
actupny.com | @actupny | on.fb.me/actupny
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Jennifer Flynn
Managing Director
Health GAP
429 West 127th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10027
mobile: +1-917-517-5202
phone: +1-212-537-0575
fax: +1-212-937-5283
skype: jenniferaliceflynn
e-mail: jfl...@healthgap.org
twitter: jenniferflynn
http://www.healthgap.org/donate.htm
I'm writing with hopes that you will join me and Health GAP in supporting this important mobilization-ACT UP NY's 25th Anniversary Action on April 25th. Their media advisory is below. We all owe ACT UP so much and this 25th Anniversary march is perfectly timed to take advantage of the exciting science and the opportunity before us to end the AIDS pandemic. ACT UP NY, will be joined by Occupy Wall Street and has chosen to join the global demand for a financial speculation tax so that we can generate revenue to pay for HIV prevention, treatment and services that we need to end AIDS (along with housing for all, education, jobs, fighting climate change, an end to the war on women, etc). There is tremendous excitement around ACT UP right now largely due to the movies "United in Anger" and "How to Survive a Plague". It's up to us, who have continued to fight for all of these years, to capitalize on the momentum. We at Health GAP feel that supporting this demonstration is one (fun) way to do that. I hope to see you in NYC on April 25th, 11am, at City Hall.
If you are outside of NYC and would like to organize your local community to attend this demo, there is a national ACT UP call taking place on Thursday (tomorrow) at 9pm eastern. You can dial into 605-477-2100 x218356#
****************************************************************************
Media Advisory
ACT UP New York
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
332 Bleecker Street PMB G5
New York NY 10014
Contact: Chip Duckett
Telephone: 917 865 4120
Email: me...@actupny.com
SAVE THE DATE — APRIL 25TH 2012
ACT UP New York 25th Anniversary Action
ACT UP COMMEMORATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY
BY RETURNING TO WALL STREET FOR MASSIVE PROTEST
To Be Joined by “OWS” — For an End to Financial Crimes
Against People with AIDS and the 99%
April 2, 2012 (NEW YORK) — To commemorate its 25th anniversary, the AIDS activist group
ACT UP will return to its roots and stage a massive demonstration and march on Wall Street
— on Wednesday, April 25 — starting at 11 am at City Hall and ending on Wall Street.
Hundreds of protestors are expected to converge for a daylong siege in Lower Manhattan.
ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) will be joined by Occupy Wall Street (OWS),
the organization making history this year and last with its public encampments and series of
protests against the global financial community. The groups are joining forces to pump up the
volume on a growing nationwide outcry for a "Financial Speculation Tax" (Fi.S.T.) on Wall
Street.
The groups are calling on local, state, and federal legislators to "give Wall Street the FiST,"
which is needed to fill AIDS funding gaps and — once and for all — provide universal healthcare
in the US. It’s time for effective healthcare to be made available to everyone — to the 99%, not
just the 1%.
The Fi.S.T. does not target individual investors, and would not affect regular bank transactions.
Instead, it would place a small tax — a mere fraction of one percent — on speculative trading
by Wall Street investment banks, hedge funds and other large financial institutions.
HIV treatment saves lives — by preventing new infections and keeping those already infected
from reaching end-stage AIDS. However, of all people worldwide in need of access to HIV
treatment, only 44% have it. More than 8 million people do not. In the United States today,
3,840 people who qualify for federal assistance to pay for HIV treatment are on waiting lists —
or in other words, are at risk of dying from AIDS.
"The AIDS crisis is not over," says veteran ACT UP New York member Ann Northrop. "But,
we know it could be," she adds.
AIDS treatment — when combined with simple prevention interventions — is the key to
breaking the back of the epidemic worldwide. In addition to saving lives, early HIV/AIDS
treatment reduces the risk of transmission of HIV by 96%. And so, with sufficient funding for
treatment and prevention, we can turn the tide on AIDS. Globally, HIV/AIDS has claimed over
30 million lives.
Both ACT UP and OWS suggest the revenue from a Financial Speculation Tax would be
significant — potentially in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The revenue from this tax should
be used to fund the end of the AIDS pandemic, i.e. to fill in US budget gaps in the fight against
HIV/AIDS at home and abroad. It should be used to provide treatment, services and prevention
to thousands of Americans and millions around the world. The groups also say the tax could
help pay for universal healthcare in the US.
“We are organizing this historic united front to bring our message to governments and to Wall
Street financiers who are sitting on the key to ending the AIDS epidemic,” according to Eric
Sawyer, a founding member of ACT UP New York. "There is no excuse. We have the know-
how to end AIDS. It is lack of funding and political will that keeps us from reaching universal
access to HIV treatment worldwide."
Additional organizations are expected to join the demonstration in New York City, including
Housing Works, Health GAP, National Nurses United, OWS Healthcare for the 99% Working
Group, Visual AIDS, MIX NYC, Le Petit Versailles, Queerocracy, Queering OWS and others.
The action will be in New York on April 25th — but the need is global. And, the time is now.
AIDS is now. END AIDS NOW!
ACT UP & Occupy!
Tax Wall Street!
End AIDS!
The AIDS crisis is not over — but it could be! Tax Wall St. to End #AIDS #ACTUP #OWS
#OccupyAIDS #OccupyWallSt #TaxWallSt #EndAIDS #April25 #ActUp25 #A25
actupny.com | @actupny | on.fb.me/actupny
###
--
Jennifer Flynn
Managing Director
Health GAP
429 West 127th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10027
mobile: +1-917-517-5202
phone: +1-212-537-0575
fax: +1-212-937-5283
skype: jenniferaliceflynn
e-mail: jfl...@healthgap.org
twitter: jenniferflynn
http://www.healthgap.org/donate.htm
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