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@actupny @ragganyc and
@thankgodforabortion .
ACT UP has been and continues to be a formative influence on Façadomy and our publishing ethos. FIGHT AIDS NOT ARABS. FUND HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE. FREE PALESTINE.
From
@actupny
Young and veteran HIV/AIDS activists, healthcare advocates, and Palestine solidarity activists gathered on the eve of the 35th annual #WorldAIDSDay at the steps of Lincoln Center to tell the US government: FUND HEALTHCARE, NOT WARFARE! As Israel resumes its brutal onslaught on the people of Gaza, we demand: PERMANENT CEASEFIRE NOW!
In seven weeks, the Israeli military’s bombardment and siege of Gaza killed 20,000 Palestinians—deaths paid for by the US government. 2.2 people do not have access to water, food, or hospitals. This is genocide.
Visual AIDS organized the first Day Without Art in 1989 as an international day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis. 34 years later, we are reminded why an epidemic still persists. Disparities in lifesaving treatment and prevention, ongoing stigma and discrimination, and a lack of political will to realize universal healthcare. ACT UP regularly organized under the banner “FUND HEALTHCARE, NOT WARFARE,” which is still painfully relevant today.
We also mark the yahrzeit of our beloved Shatzi Weisberger Z”L, “the People’s Bubbie,” who died on December 1, 2022. A lifelong activist who identified as a lesbian, Jewish anti-Zionist, and a prison abolitionist, Weisberger worked as a nurse for 47 years, focusing on birth and death, spending many of those years caring for people with AIDS. We fight for a better world in her memory.
All of our struggles are connected. We honor the activists and movements that made us possible. We mourn the dead and we fight like hell for the living. We call for a permanent, lasting ceasefire, now.
ACT UP, FIGHT BACK, END AIDS.
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@AlexaBWilkinson
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@missladysalad
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@kt_kennedy_
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@radixmedia