Queerscribe (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} queerscribe) wrote,@ 2001-06-25 09:30:00 |
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The Importance Of Acting Up
ACT-UP New York co-founder, Eric Sawyer speaking Saturday at the activist group?s protest on the eve of the United Nations' General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS. Informative article here.
"I am mad as hell that drug company greed kills 10,000 people every day because AIDS drugs cost too much. I am mad as hell that 16,000 people get HIV every day because our world leaders are heartless cowards who can't admit that people have sex. I am mad as hell that white people in the First World value money more than the lives of people of color around the world. I am mad as hell that 20 years into this epidemic some people still think treatment and prevention are separate and that prevention is more important than treatment. We are here to say that treatment and prevention are inseparable -- one can't work without the other.?
ACT-UP New York co-founder, Eric Sawyer speaking Saturday at the activist group?s protest on the eve of the United Nations' General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS. Informative article here.
