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The following documents are about ACT 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. ACT UP is committed to a democratic inclusive activism.

Because of the length of these files, we encourage people to download and distribute them.  Please be sure to look through as many as possible, since several sections interconnect.

 

ACT UP/New York
Capsule History

ACT UP Research Bibliography

The Denver Principles
PWA Empowerment

_HISTORIC 1983 DECLARATION

WHY WE FIGHT
VITO RUSSO 1988 

THE FIRST ACT UP
DEMONSTRATION

WALL STREET March 24, 1987 

 WHO'S "The Cure" FOR?
_Maxine Wolfe at the National Conference on Women and HIV

When PWAs first sat
at the high table

The Montreal AIDS Conference
by Ron Goldberg

 The Role of AIDS Activists
_DIVA TV  PROGRAM  TRANSCRIPT_

 Time to
Become an AIDS Activist

_(Direct Action Manual)_

ACT UP EXPLAINED
by Jon Greenberg

Welcome To New York
 
for Stonewall 25, 1994_
by Avram Finkelstein

Tactics of Early ACT UP
_(excerpted) interview with Maxine Wolfe
by Laraine Sommella "Queers in Space"

I Want To Live
By Any Means Necessary

by KIKI MASON _
for Stonewall 25, 1994

After 10 Years of ACT UP
_Maxine Wolfe_
and her Oral History excerpt: 
Changing the CDC Definition of AIDS

FDA Action Handbook
Historic 1988 ACT UP document
changing history for drug approval

Treatment for all Now!
Global Manifesto
Durban South Africa


   and these related documents:                                     

Civil Disobedience as Tactic not Culture 
_speech by Mitch Friedman  
CARLTON HOGAN AGIT-PROP & RANTINGS (PDF)  
BORN: JULY 28, 1961  DIED: NOVEMBER 18, 2003  
published writings from PWAlive  
(the Midwest's least polite AIDS periodical)
  



correcting sensibilities
FOR OUR SURVIVAL  

click here for arousal > 
 
reconstruction           

PRIDE   2005         

 <  <  <  QUEER  PROVOCATION > > >

QUEERS
READ 
THIS  


reconstructed  (PDF)     
.
published  anonymously
originally distributed by activists marching
with ACT UP at Gay Pride 1990
 

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> why. Most of your pages are designed with white text on a black
> background, and when printed, the black background is dropped out and
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