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Health & Safety

How To Demand A Medical Breakthrough: Lessons From The AIDS Fight

8:39am February 09, 2019

by Nurith Aizenman

When the AIDS crisis started in the 1980s, the official response was tepid. Then activists channeled their anger into into one of the most effective protest movements in recent history.

Members of ACT UP hold up signs and placards during the Gay and Lesbian Pride march in New York City, June 26, 1988.

National
Politics & Government

ACT UP At 30: Reinvigorated For Trump Fight

4:51pm April 17, 2017

by Eric Westervelt

Veteran activists who helped make ACT UP and its affiliates a potent force in the fight against AIDS are now helping train activists opposed to the policies of the Trump administration.