http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/7850/0 en http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/recovering-history-direct-action-aids-organizing-c/19183 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/kinsman_aids_research_project.jpg" alt="" title="Scholar and activist Gary Kinsman of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario, introducing the film *United in Anger: A History of ACT UP* and talking about the new AIDS Activist History Project that he is working on with Alexis Shotwell of Carleton University in Ottawa." width="450" height="432" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>SUDBURY, ON -- It was an era when rage and creativity won life-saving victories. Neglected by governments, scorned by much of the public, and facing rapid illness and death, in the mid-1980s people living with HIV/AIDS and their supporters began taking radical direct action in cities across North America. Yet this history is in danger of being forgotten.</p> <p><a href="http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/recovering-history-direct-action-aids-organizing-c/19183" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca/story/recovering-history-direct-action-aids-organizing-c/19183#comments Scott Neigh Direct Action Health Sexuality #AIDS #HIV sudbury Wed, 09 Oct 2013 17:16:30 +0000 scott.neigh 19183 at http://sudbury.mediacoop.ca