“How to Survive a Plague”: As ACT UP Turns 25, New Film on History of AIDS Activism. 2 of 2
“How to Survive a Plague”: As ACT UP Turns 25, New Film on History of AIDS Activism. 2 of 2 – democracynow.org – This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of ACT UP —the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power — an international direct action advocacy group formed by a coalition of activists outraged over the government’s mismanagement of the AIDS crisis. We speak with ACT UP founding member Peter Staley, one of the longest AIDS survivors in the country; and David France, director of the new documentary “How to Survive a Plague,” which tells remarkable history of AIDS activism and how it changed the country. “I’m alive because of this activism,” Staley says of the triple drug therapy he was able to take. “This was a major victory this movie tells about getting these therapies. But that was only the beginning of the battle. Now we have these treatments that can keep people alive, and there are still two to three million dying every year. There are more dying now than when we actually got the therapies to save people. So it’s a huge failure of leadership internationally and it shows a failure of our own healthcare system.” To watch the complete daily, independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, and for Democracy Now! reports on AID/HIV and ACT UP, please visit www.democracynow.org. FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: @democracynow Subscribe on YouTube: www.youtube.com Listen on SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com Daily Email News Digest: www.democracynow.org Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to …
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