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Part 2: ACT UP/NY Oral History Project
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The video of the interview is posted below.
Part 2: ACT UP/NY Oral History Project
Tune to Out-FM on Tues., Dec 7th for news of important developments in the LGBTQI communities. Then we’ll bring you part 2 of our interview with ACT UP Oral History Project co-founder Jim Hubbard. The project’s website has been revamped to make available full-length videos, rather than short excerpts, of all 187 interviews conducted with members of ACT UP/NY. Included in Tuesday’s broadcast will be:
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On Bringing the ashes of those lost to AIDS to the White House.
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On the Use of the Guantánamo concentration camp to detain HIV-positive Haitians.
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Discussing law enforcement Infiltration of ACT UP & and how the group organized with many other activist groups a secret civil disobedience to shut down 4 entry points to Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn |
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On the harrassment of women AIDS activists by NY police who strip-searched them! |
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Discussing the aftermath of AIDS for people with AIDS who survived, creating An Epidemic That Never Ends |
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Click HERE for Part 1 of the Interview |
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World AIDS DAY: Twin Pandemics of HIV/AIDS & COVID-19 Collide; and ACT UP Oral History Website Relaunch
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Out-FM is a weekly progressive queer show on listener-sponsored, noncommercial WBAI/Pacifica Radio. It airs at 99.5 and wbai.org, generally on Tuesdays from 8-9 PM. Please support us by donating to WBAI. Become a member for $25 or a BAI Buddy (sustainer) for $5/month or more. Go to wbai.org or call 212-209-2950 and let WBAI management know you listen to Out-FM by supporting the station with a donation.
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Emily Sanderson Director of Grassroots Organizing of Health GAP
Twin Pandemics of HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Collide
Risk of more severe outcomes with COVID-19 may be more likely in HIV positive people. Yet around the world the COVID-19 pandemic has interfered with testing and treatment. Health GAP, an organization dedicated to getting generic AIDS drugs to people with AIDS worldwide, sees President Biden’s FY22 budget which includes funding for PEPFAR, a bilateral AIDS program, as deficient. It also sees failure to provide COVID-19 vaccines as hurting not only care, but care providers in countries receiving US AIDS funding.
According to Health GAP's Matthew Rose, “President Biden’s first detailed budget displays a lack of bold leadership motivated to end the HIV pandemic. Flat funding the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is deadly, particularly in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic when the vast majority of people with HIV in most affected countries when COVID-19 has already harmed HIV treatment and prevention programs, and most communities have no access to life-saving COVID-19 vaccines and treatment. If the U.S. had continued fully funding PEPFAR since 2003 instead of letting funding levels slip into a flat-line for the last 11 years, the HIV pandemic would look remarkably different today. “
Interview of Jim Hubbard (bottom) by Bob Lederer (left) & John Riley (right)
Click on video below to see our interview containing clips from ACT UP members: Elias Guerrero, Sharon Tramatola, Jill Harris, Esther Kaplan, and Jamie Leo.
ACT UP Oral History Project Website Relaunch
Joining us to discuss the project and their newly relaunched website is film maker and activist Jim Hubbard who co-produced with author Sara Schulman “United in Anger” a film documenting various ACT UP campaigns.
The ACT UP Oral History Project is an archive of 187 interviews with members of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York. The project is coordinated by Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman, with principal camera work by James Wentzy. The website adding full interviews with 187 surviving members of ACT UP/NY and hundreds of hours of footage of actions and meetings.
ACT UP, founded in March of 1987, is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals, united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. Its determined advocacy and highly-focused demonstrations supported by innovative graphics utterly changed the world’s perception of people with AIDS and queer people. This description, on the actuporalhistory.org website introduces to some of the indepth coverage of the accomplishments of one of the most effective and influential left leaning LGBTQ groups in the US. The site is a great source of political and tactical decisions that challenged government policy and inaction at a time when the HIV epidemic was killing hundreds of thousands in the US and infecting more than a million young men and some women. It reveals some of the ways the group was able to capture the attention of the mass media and communicate to the public at large about government and corporate failures that jeapordized so many lives of people living with HIV and AIDS. Click here for part 2 of the Oral History Project interview with Jim Hubbard.