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AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ACT UP was effectively formed on March 10, 1987 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York. ACT UP held their next action at the New York City General Post Office on the night of April 15, 1987, to a "captive audience" of people filing last minute tax returns. ACT UP, while extremely prolific and certainly effective in its heydey, suffered from extreme internal pressures over the direction of the group and of the AIDS crisis. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ACT_UP   (1989 words)

The Body: ACT UP ACT UP, the commonly used acronym for the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, is a grassroots AIDS organization associated with nonviolent civil disobedience. ACT UP also demanded the creation and implementation of a federal needle-exchange program, called for a federally controlled and funded program of condom distribution at the local level, and asked for a serious sex education program in primary and secondary schools to be created and monitored by the federal Department of Education. ACT UP members have established needle-exchange programs, which are now widely accepted as having contributed to a decrease in the rate of HIV infection among both injecting drug users and their sexual partners. www.thebody.com /encyclo/actup.html   (2253 words)

The Body: ACT UP Golden Gate Changes Name to Survive AIDS ACT UP Golden Gate, one of the leading ACT UP chapters in the nation, has changed its name to Survive AIDS, to avoid public confusion with an unrelated group using the name ACT UP San Francisco. ACT UP San Francisco -- which tells people not to be tested or treated for HIV infection, and which opposes AIDS clinical trials ("AIDS research isn't medicine -- it's murder") -- has disrupted treatment meetings in San Francisco for years; activists and medical professionals alike have been concerned for their personal safety. Elsewhere, ACT UP San Francisco's best known action was to invade a medical meeting at the World AIDS Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in July 1996, and throw red liquid on the speakers, in front of an audience of more than a thousand physicians and researchers. www.thebody.com /atn/341/actup.html   (941 words)

What's scariest about ACT UP San Francisco's message ACT UP posts fliers throughout the Castro purporting that "HIV is a lie," and is working against approval of new drug treatments for AIDS. ACT UP San Francisco diverged from other ACT UP chapters in the early 1990s because members like Bellefountaine felt the original ACT UP, which initially protested for more drug development and faster government approvals, became too focused on treatment without questioning the cause of the illnesses. While ACT UP uses quarterly Department of Health transmission statistics to show that, indeed, new AIDS cases overall are in a steep decline, AIDS workers like Suarez point out that just because AIDS is no longer affecting middle class, white, gay men in large numbers, it doesn't mean other groups are not seeing rates increase. www.healtoronto.com /actup_story.html   (1989 words)

glbtq >> social sciences >> ACT UP Many ACT UP members had been involved with earlier social protest movements, such as the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. Members of ACT UP adapted the radical principles of these movements, including direct action, civil disobedience, and a commitment to democratic process within the organization, to their work in AIDS activism. Although ACT UP is best known for its audacious direct-action tactics, including telephone and fax zaps, as well as marches, rallies, and "die-ins," it also achieved considerable success by meeting directly with governmental agencies and corporations. www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/act_up.html   (834 words)

Act Up-Paris in Vancouver About thirty militants from various Act Up chapters invaded the meeting room, a HIV positive woman stood up to speak to denounce the dangers of mandatory testing : studies have shown that women are reluctant to be under a doctor when an AIDS testing is compulsory. Act Up-San Francisco was excluded from all demonstrations organised by the other Act Up chapters during the conference. On the last morning of the conference Act Up had decided to silently zap another laboratory, Merck, but the now traditional golden urn "ceremony" took place amidst the stalls and its purpose was to denounce the criminal policy of the American Red Cross in what could become the American "contaminated blood affair". www.actupparis.org /auppage12.html   (3580 words)

Act Up! For Mental Health - The Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) In fact it was not until I joined Act Up in1995 that I thought of drama again. I joined act Up not because I thought I was a good actress, but thought it would aid my recovery with the mental illness that has plagued me since 1969. Because of previous discrimination I was fearful of people, but in joining Act Up I found a group of people who welcomed me and now I feel more confident in being around people. www.actupformentalhealth.co.uk /page5.html   (469 words)

Open Letter to ACT UP NYC / Press Release : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) As the membership of ACT UP New York prepares to retract its previous statement and issue a new one regarding the actions taken in San Francisco against Michael Petrelis and David Pasquarelli, I would ask all of you to pause and answer these questions before you act. They are people who have ended up in the emergency room because of ACT UP SF, people who put their bodies on the line before it was popular to do so. ACT UP SF has a long history of violent actions including spitting on people, disrupting community forums and dumping cat feces on the head of a director of a local AIDS foundation who was pregnant at the time. sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=116098&comments=yes   (2211 words)

Act Up-Paris For Act Up-Paris, fighting AIDS also means fighting all kinds of discriminations, putting pressure on the government and raising public awareness at the same time. Act Up-Paris has been recognised as expressing the point of view of people with AIDS by political parties, members of parliament, pharmaceutical companies, research institutions, health care providers and AIDS education authorities Act Up-Paris has proved capable of organising massive demonstrations joined by several thousands of sympathisers. www.actupparis.org /auppage02.html   (532 words)

ACT New Zealand // The Liberal Party ACT holds other parties to account and can be trusted to deliver on what it says. ACT stands for individual freedom and choice, personal responsibility and the protection of the life, liberty and property of each and every citizen. ACT is dedicated to enabling New Zealanders to have more opportunities and choices in their own lives. www.act.org.nz   (478 words)

Time out for ACT UP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) One ACT UP activist from New York, speaking about the growing number of AIDS cases in the US and the rest of the world, said that "the US was responsible for their deaths". It is a slap in the face of ACT UP to wake up. ACT UP and other gay-rights groups should return to spreading the message about safe sex and monogamy. www.therazor.org /oldroot/Summer02/actup.htm   (956 words)

ACT UP Goes Global When ACT UP was first formed in New York in the late 1980s, its weekly meetings regularly attracted up to a thousand members--largely drawn from white, middle-class gay and lesbian communities. Both ACT UP Philadelphia and ACT UP New York are part of the Health GAP Coalition, a network of AIDS and trade activists formed in 1999 when its members realized that no organization existed within the United States focusing exclusively on the global AIDS epidemic. ACT UP members know that treatment and prevention can go hand in hand, and they've seen it work in their own communities. www.thenation.com /doc/20010709/kim   (1266 words)

The Anchoress » ACT UP acts out at Notre Dame Cathedral ACT UP people participated in the Mass until Communion at which time they lay across the aisle to try to prevent worshippers from receiving. ACT UP found they’d gone too far with this particular demonstration and they lost a little of their media-lustre, for a while. About 20 members of the group Act Up entered the cathedral and proceeded to perform the mock marriage, before baffled tourists and worshippers, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene. theanchoressonline.com /2005/06/06/act-up-acts-out-at-notre-dame-cathedral   (5236 words)

ACT Test Prep: Description of the ACT Assessment The ACT (No Writing) is a set of four multiple-choice tests which cover English, mathematics, reading, and science. The ACT Plus Writing includes the four multiple-choice tests and a Writing Test. Measuring mathematical skills students have typically acquired in courses taken up to the beginning of grade 12. www.actstudent.org /testprep/descriptions/index.html   (93 words)

ACT UP! Homo- Activists Above all, ACT UP is committed to a democratic, inclusive activism. act up is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis... ACT UP East Bay (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) This entry was last verified in February of 2004. www.equalparenting-bc.ca /news/act_up.htm   (622 words)

ACT UP - AIDS Coalition To Undo Propaganda, TORONTO Instead, to justify launching their new $400,000 HIV propaganda campaign "Condom Country" ACT reported these hopeful figures wrongly as indicating infection rates are on the rise. All the major news media picked up on ACT's bogus spin on the data and blasted us with fearful and homophobic messages in the first days of Pride week. Four ACT UP chapters have taken the dissident campaign to Capitol Hill, with a fullpage advertisment in a Washington newspaper that urges an end to the corrupted overfunding for AIDS. www.healtoronto.com /actup/main.html   (1018 words)

Australian Labor Party - ACT Branch Like the Canberra community, ACT Labor is concerned about education, health, planning and community safety. The Labor team is made up of committed Canberrans - people who share the same aspirations and concerns as the broader Canberra community. The ACT Labor Government's priority has been to deliver on its election promises and repair the damage done after 6 years of Liberal party neglect. www.act.alp.org.au   (257 words)

ACT UP: Student Activists Welcome to the Webpage of ACT UP: Student Activists, a student organization at MSUM. Act Up is an activist organization which was started in an effort to organize the college community against the war on Iraq. The goals of Act Up, however, spread beyond the reach of war into environmentalism, human rights, non-violence, animal rights, and other areas of social concern. www.mnstate.edu /actup   (259 words)

36: ACT-UP/Political Economy Realistically, we might not expect them to be influential because they are not made up of very many people and many of the people active around AIDS do not seem to support them or their activities. The politics of AIDS was shaped in the early 1980s as the new disease began showing up in San Francisco, LA, and New York. From the beginning, then, we saw that the response to this medical problem was not rational in the sense of being aimed at providing care to those who were sick or protecting the population from infection. www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /milofsky/AIDS/Class36.htm   (1226 words)

ACTA: Assertive Community Treatment Association Home Page The ACT association is financed by membership fees and contributions, workshops and trainings, conference revenue, and grants from public and private organizations. Advocate with policy-makers for the continued development of ACT services as one of the most effective means of treatment for persons diagnosed with serious mental illness. The mission of the ACT Association is to promote, develop, and support high quality assertive community treatment services that help improve the lives of people diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness. www.actassociation.org   (401 words)

ACT-UP ACT UP chose Pride to reach out to a community still reeling from AIDS among its ranks. On June 12, ACT UP crashed a gala for the Global Business Council on HIV AIDS in Manhattan for corporations like Coke to receive awards for work to fight AIDS in developing countries. ACT UP members chanted from bullhorns while floating alongside the gala at Pier 60 in a boat "Coke lies, workers die, AIDS treatment now!" Activists inside the gala interrupted Bill Clinton, while outside, activists dropped a banner creating a backdrop behind Clinton "Coke and Big Biz: Treat HIV+ Workers Now. www.commondreams.org /news2002/0701-03.htm   (439 words)

Alliance for Coastal Technologies ACT is committed to providing the information required to select the most appropriate tools for studying and monitoring coastal environments. There are currently eight ACT Partner institutions around the country with coastal technology expertise that represent a broad range of environmental conditions for testing. The ACT Stakeholder Council is comprised of resource managers and industry representatives who ensure that ACT focuses on service-oriented activities. www.act-us.info   (284 words)

Enough of ACT UP S.F. Acting Out ACT UP San Francisco stole the founders' name, attempting to appropriate the original ACT UP's credibility. ACT UP San Francisco bought ads in Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, calling on Congress to cut the Ryan White Care Act, which is the largest source of federal funds for essential drugs, health and support services for Americans living with HIV and their families. Beginning today, we are launching a campaign to hold ACT UP San Francisco accountable for their violence and dangerous lies. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/09/21/ED83985.DTL   (831 words)

ACT Home Page - emergencies, disaster news and coordination Action by Churches Together (ACT) International is a global alliance of churches and related agencies working to save lives and support communities in emergencies worldwide. Visit the ACT Emergency Training section for news about upcoming and past training events. The ACT Coordinating Office is based with the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva, Switzerland. www.act-intl.org /act_main_title.html   (127 words)

ACT UP Documents UP New York's organization, and means of how to become an activist. We are dedicated to empowering groups to take direct action to help end the AIDS Crisis. UP is committed to a democratic inclusive activism. www.actupny.org /documents/documents.html   (193 words)

Undergrads Act Up They make up a group of the more than 700 students involved in one of Harvard and Radcliffe's oldest traditions -- theater. Undergraduates not only act in theater productions, they take part in everything from set building to costume sewing to financial management. Students set up productions in the Leverett Old Library, and others strut their stuff beneath the chlorine-scented statue of Neptune in the converted swimming pool known as the Adams House Pool Theater. www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/04.30/UndergradsActUp.html   (697 words)

The ACT | The Princeton Review Most colleges accept the ACT in lieu of the SAT. In February 2005 an optional essay was added to the ACT. Master ACT content, take an ACT practice test, and learn proven test-taking techniques. www.princetonreview.com /college/testprep/testprep.asp?TPRPAGE=2&TYPE=ACT   (60 words)

News from emergencies Lebanon: ACT calls for protection of civilians and access to people in need Lebanon: Estimate of people fleeing conflict is upped I Dateline: August 3 ACT member in Lebanon assists people in need www.act-intl.org /act_news_title.html   (650 words)

U. S. Organizations:  A Other briefing papers, produced by the ACLU Office of Public Education, explain the organization's position on a range of specific civil liberties issues. ACT UP ACT UP is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger ACT UP is a decentralized political organization with local chapters worldwide. www.queertheory.com /politics/organizations/national_organizations_a.htm   (335 words)

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