Issue No. 179: ACT UP Action Tomorrow!

Join ACT UP's 25th Anniversary Direct Action

ACT UP and OCCUPY
TAX WALL STREET!
END AIDS!

April 25, 2012
At 11am
Massive demonstration and march.
Starts at City Hall (Broadway and Murray Street)
Ends at Wall Street.

ACT UP is calling for a small tax (0.05%) on Wall Street transactions and speculative trades in order to raise the money needed to end the global AIDS epidemic and provide universal healthcare in the US.

More info: 212-966-4873 | www.actupny.com | info@actupny.com

Facebook ACT UP NY Page | www.facebook.com/actupny

Twitter: @actupny | #taxwallst | #endaids

How can a Financial Speculation Tax help end AIDS?

- THE SCIENCE: The scientific community and AIDS activists agree: we now know how to break the back of the epidemic. New evidence shows early HIV treatment can reduce sexual transmission of the virus by 96%.

- THE REALITY: HIV treatment is needed to save lives, prevent illness, and reduce new infections, but there is a huge TREATMENT GAP and WAITING LISTS are growing in the U.S. and abroad.

-IN THE U.S.: 3,840 people who qualify for federal ADAP assistance to pay for HIV treatment are still on waiting lists. In addition, people with HIV and vulnerable communities in the U.S. need support and social services. Due to budget cuts, these essential services have been rolled back. Funding from the tax could also help pay for universal healthcare in the U.S.

- WORLDWIDE: Only 44% of people who need HIV treatment have access – more than 8 million do not. Revenue from the FST could bail out the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria, which cancelled its last round of grants to poor countries due to a lack of resources. Funding the Fund can help to make good on the global agreement – signed by the U.S. – to treat 15 million people by 2015, up from 6.6 million now. It will take around $22 billion a year between now and 2015 to finance the global HIV fight to save millions of lives and stop the HIV epidemic in its tracks.

- WHAT'S AT STAKE: AIDS has already claimed over 30 million lives. ACT UP is calling for an FST to help raise the money needed to close the gap in access to life-saving HIV treatment, and to END THE AIDS CRISIS.

The FST demonstration is linked to a global Robin Hood Tax campaign to fund
global health, global public goods, jobs, and to tackle climate change.

Issue No 174: Syringe Exchange Tomorrow!

URGENT ACTION!

National Day of Action - Syringe Exchange

Wednesday, March 21st
780 Third Avenue – Between 48th and 49th Streets, Manhattan
8am - 7pm

Tomorrow the We Can End Aids coalition, of which Queerocracy is a anchor organization, will be holding a national syringe exchange action- with actions happening in NY, Philly and D.C. The current ban on federal funding for needle exchange contributes to the spread of HIV.  If our government is truly dedicated in creating a generation free of HIV, this ban must be lifted! Please join our allies in pressuring Senator Gillibrand and Schumer into being champions!

Issue No. 149: AIDS DAY: Here is some work by Antonio Urdiales who died during the summer.

Antonio Urdiales

Issue No. 128: THE QUEER GENERATION GAP is Tomorrow.

Flawless Sabrina

THE QUEER GENERATION GAP
Sunday, October 2nd, 5pm
Dixon Place Lounge, 161A Christie Street, NYC
$5 suggested donation

Do queer people naturally segregate themselves by age?  What are the consequences of generational segregation in the queer community?  If other cultures survive by the passing of wisdom from parents to biological children, how can queer culture(s), without that kind of formalized familial interaction, avoid perpetual disappearance?  As part of the "thirtynothing" event series, performance artist Dan Fishback will moderate a discussion about these questions and more, featuring filmmaker Ira Sachs (co-founder, "Queer/Art/Mentorship"), legendary drag performer Jack "Mother Flawless Sabrina" Doroshow, artist Carlos Motta ("We Who Feel Differently"), and more TBA.  While the conversation will span generational issues in the larger queer landscape, it will focus largely on gay male communities, specifically in light of the generational void caused by the mass death of gay men from AIDS. 

This event series accompanies a four-week run of Fishback's new multi-media solo performance, "thirtynothing."  The show explores the lives and work of gay artists who have died of AIDS, in an attempt to gain a greater understanding of the queer past, and the place of younger generations in queer history. 

For more information about "thirtynothing" and related programs, go here:
http://dixonplace.org/html/DanFishback_Oct11.html