MEDIA ALERT – THIS WEDNESDAY MORNING!

CONTACT: Chip Duckett – Chipspin@aol.com
917-865-4120
Art/Graphic Design for press available at www.actupny.com or on request.

WHAT: ACT-UP 25th ANNIVERSARY DEMONSTRATION ON WALL STREET

WHEN: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 – 10:30 AM

WHERE:10:30 AM – East Side of City Hall

Pre-Rally Interviews with Speakers – this is an interview opportunity for media only.

11:00 AM – West Side of City Hall – Speakers at Rally Kick off the Demonstration – please notify the public of this!

WHAT WILL HAPPEN: Hundreds of AIDS activists will gather outside City Hall to hear brief speeches on current topics of concern on HIV/AIDS issues, with specific demands, including the need for a Financial Speculative Tax to be funneled to health care.  The demonstration will leave City Hall and go down Broadway, with a couple of other stops at key locations, ending at Trinity Church with a personal commemoration of loved ones lost to AIDS. ACT-UP chapters and supporters are busing into New York from Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Washington and other cities to participate with the New York groups. A number of supportive national and local organizations and individuals will join ACT-UP in the demonstration, including Housing Works, National Nurses United, and Occupy Wall Street, among many others.

Acts of civil disobedience may occur during the demonstration, which is expected to last about two to two and a half hours.

WHO WILL BE SPEAKING (NOTE: SPEECHES WILL BE BRIEF AND COLORFUL, AND WILL INCLUDE SPECIFIC DEMANDS):

HISTORY OF ACT-UP AND ACT-UP INTO THE FUTURE: Eric Sawyer, ACT-UP and UNAIDS Brent Nicholson Earle, ACT-UP

HOUSING ISSUES FOR PEOPLE WITH HIV/AIDS: Speaker to be announced, Housing Works

LOCAL HIV/AIDS ISSUES: Wanda Hernandez, Vocal NY

NATIONAL HIV/AIDS ISSUES: Jose DeMarco/ACT-UP Philadelphia

GLOBAL HIV/AIDS ISSUES: Amanda Lugg, African Services Committee

HEALTHCARE ISSUES & THE FINANCIAL SPECULATIVE TAX: Annette Gaudino, Health Care for the 99%/OWS, Sam Aldi,National Nurses United.

About ACT UP

Founded in 1987, ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. ACT UP currently meets every Monday night at 7PM ET via Zoom. Notes: you will be asked to contribute your first & last name and email address to access online meetings, and KN-95 masks are required for ACT UP NY in person meetings/actions/gatherings. All individuals are welcome!