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  • 11 months ago
Their motto: Silence = Death.

This is the story of ACT UP New York, the organization that pushed the government to act in the face of the AIDS epidemic.
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00:00People with hands are under attack, what do we do? Act up, fight back!
00:30I, myself, have lost now 18 friends who have died in my own immediate circle of friends,
00:46a community. I mean, it's like wartime when you have those kind of statistics that affect
01:21Today has been just a terrible day for me because I have two of my very even closer
01:26friends have been admitted to hospital. When you come down with AIDS, you don't know how
01:33long you're going to be before something hits you.
01:51Prevention is so poorly done in France that you have to act with big symbols. That's why
02:16we covered up the place. The message is simple, it's AIDS, stop this hecatomb.
02:20The
02:50US government is abandoning people with AIDS. We are also here because the drug companies are
02:57not making these drugs available to 90% of people living with AIDS.
03:20There are 35 to 40 million people all over the world in Africa and Southeast Asia and Eastern
03:37Europe, South America, everywhere who need treatment. We know there are drugs that can
03:43save their lives. He proposed a $1 billion cut to global AIDS funding when we are on the brink
04:05of ending the global AIDS epidemic.
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