Thursday, January 10, 2008
“We demand answers on ETHA and the global fund – and we’re not sitting down.”
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McCain Sunday January 6th.
Who: 2 dozen activists from ACT UP Philly, ACT UP/NY, Housing Works, NYCAHN, SGAC, Health GAP, Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition, FXB, PIH, and probably others that I’m forgetting. What: McCain town hall with about 1,000 people in Salem, NH high school gym What we did: Many of us in NH were incredibly frustrated that McCain has rebuffed all of our questions over the past few months to win his support for $50 b and his endorsement of the Early Treatment for HIV Act, so we decided to protest his town hall. We planned to go in as 3 teams of 7-8 people, and disrupt with chants of “people with AIDS are dying, and you’re not even trying”. AIDS treatment now!”. We arrived an hour and a half early, and sat in three sections in the front of the gym. McCain came in, and while he was being introduced, the first wave began chanting, and held up signs that said “Early Treatment for People with HIV in the
