00:00To be continued...
00:30I had the idea in 1985, and it was at a time of great loss.
00:43Almost everyone I knew by 1985 was dead or dying or caring for someone who was dying of
00:47AIDS.
00:48The government did nothing in my country and in yours, so there was this terrible lack
00:52of government response, awful stigma associated with the disease, great cruelty, and frankly
01:01something that I think will go down in history as a very shameful chapter.
01:05So I wanted to grieve for my friends who had passed, but I also wanted to galvanize action
01:10to shame the governments who had failed in their response to do the right thing and provide
01:15the funding necessary for research.
01:21This has become the world's largest community arts project.
01:25And if it was all together, it would cover acres and acres and acres of land.
01:30But it remains an intensely personal experience and expression for the panel makers, who almost
01:36all of them are the family members, the loved ones of people who lost their lives to the
01:40disease.
01:41So with these panels, they participated in a collective form of grieving.
01:46It was therapeutic for many of them.
01:49It was part of a political statement.
01:52And I think that it created really a global community.
01:54I'm so disheartened and enraged by the moves of the Trump administration.
01:59It's cruel.
02:00It's unscientific.
02:01The consequences are going to be measured in the deaths of hundreds of thousands and
02:03eventually millions of people.
02:04It is estimated that in the coming months, over a half million children are going to be
02:08going to die because they no longer have access to the medications that are going to be given.
02:11It is estimated that in the coming months, over a half million children in Africa will die because
02:12they no longer have access to the medications that are going to be given.
02:13It's unconscionable.
02:14It's unconscionable.
02:15It's unconscionable.
02:16It's unconscionable.
02:17It's unconscionable.
02:18It's unconscionable.
02:19It's unconscionable.
02:49You
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