Add your voice to speakers from South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, Brazil, Kenya, and Ghana in demanding action to Stop Global AIDS Now. Join thousands in the streets to put an end to governmental inaction and to insist that global health be put before corporate profits. Help build the People's Mobilization to Stop Global AIDS.
When and Where: meet at 11am on Saturday, June 23 at Washington Square Park and march to Bryant Park.
The rally at Bryant Park will feature speakers living with HIV and grass-roots activists in the Global South describing conditions in their countries and issuing calls to action.
The Message
Before world leaders discuss HIV/AIDS at the United Nations and before the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy . . . we will be in the streets demanding action:
Dollars: We call on the United States and other wealthy countries to invest multiple billions in grants to the Global AIDS Fund and to national AIDS plans in developing countries.
Debt: We call on the World Bank and IMF to cancel 100% of the debt owed to them by all impoverished countries heavily impacted by HIV/AIDS.
Drugs: We call on the United States and other wealthy countries to ensure access to lifesaving AIDS medications, including generically manufactured drugs, at the lowest possible cost.
Global Solidarity Statement
We honor the people throughout the world who have lost their lives or their loved ones due to HIV/AIDS. We join in struggle with those that are fighting to end the AIDS epidemic.
We affirm the demand of people living with HIV/AIDS in the South for access to care, support, and treatment -- treatment that has been proven to extend lives, help build up weak health care systems, and enhance prevention efforts.
We know this to be morally correct: that the lives of the millions of poor people with AIDS are no less valuable than those of people with AIDS living in wealthy countries. We know also that access to treatment is a right of people everywhere. It is both necessary and possible to extend medication to everyone who needs it.
We join people from the South in calling for complete cancellation of debt owed by poor countries to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and individual governments, so they can devote their resources to health care and education.
More Information
How to Participate Before June 23
Endorse June 23 by sending an email to salynch@critpath.org.
Volunteer to help with outreach, sign making, or marshaling at the march by sending an email to VolunteerStopAIDS@hotmail.com. Schedule of meetings, marshall trainings, and poster making events available on www.stopglobalaidsnow.org.
Mobilize for June 23 by distributing flyers and getting the word out. Download flyers at www.stopglobalaidsnow.org or request materials be faxed to you by emailing salynch@critpath.org.
Organize the march and rally by attending planning meetings. The next meeting is Thursday, June 14 at 7 pm at African Services Committee, 429 West 127 Street between Morningside and Amsterdam Avenues. Schedule of all meetings available on www.stopglobalaidsnow.org.
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African Services Committee
The Health GAP Coalition
Global AIDS Alliance
ACT UP New York
American Jewish World Service
Jubilee USA Network
Africa Action in cooperation with allies in the Global South including National Association of People with AIDS -- South Africa
Treatment Action Campaign -- South Africa |
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ACT UP Philadelphia
New York City Coalition Against AIDS in Africa (NYCRAA)
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
Global ACCTS
Americans Mobilized Against the Spread of AIDS in Africa (AMASAA)
Bailey House
Student Global AIDS Campaign
AIDS Treatment Data Network
AIDS Research Alliance/Los Angeles
ACT UP/East Bay
River Fund
Latino Commission on AIDS
Africa AIDS Initiative
Mobilization Against AIDS International
ACT UP/Cleveland
AIDS Treatment Data Network (ATDN)
GNP+ North America
Global Exchange
POZ Magazine
Sierra Foothills AIDS Foundation
South Africa Development Fund
Survive AIDS (ACT UP/Golden Gate)
The New York AIDS Coalition (NYAC)
NYC AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN)
Jews Against Genocide
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Sisters Mobilized for AIDS Research and Treatment (S.M.A.R.T. University)
Queers For Racial & Economic Justice
Solidarity Against the HIV Infection in India (SAATHII)
Kathleen Chalfont
Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC)
BGAN Africa AIDS Project
National Summit on Africa/Africa Society
International Socialist Organization
Body Positive
Freetown-New Haven Sister Cities
New York Community Trust/Royal S. Marks Foundation Fund
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Dutch Stichting AIDS Fonds
National Organization for Women
The North American Taskforce on Prostitution
Housing Works
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
Audre Lorde Project (ALP)
Mothers' Voices
International Action Center
Boston Global Action Network/African AIDS Project
Mississippians With HIV/AIDS
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
New York City Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project (AVP)
Oxfam
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Title II Community AIDS National Network
NY Pride at Work AFL-CIO
Global Action on Aging
Heritage of Pride/NYC
Arianna Huffington
Constituency for Africa
Global AIDS Action Network
Union of New York Free Youth (UNYFY)
Metropolitan Community Church of New York
Neighborhood AIDS Advocacy Group/Aisha Muhammad
Church Ladies for Choice -- NYC
United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ Global Ministries Africa Office
Treatment Action Group (TAG)
Mary Knoll AIDS Task Force
National Minority AIDS Council (NMAC)
UCC Wider Church Ministries
Margaret Sanger Center International at Planned Parenthood of New York City
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate -- U.S. Province
International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)
Dignity/USA
God's Love We Deliver
Family Health Project
Life Force
Conscious Movements Collective
Visual AIDS
End AIDS Now!
International Presentation Association of Sisters of the Presentation
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