Where Right To Try discourse invokes the constitution,
ACT UP combined more accessible moral language and values with bioethical and regulatory discourses, reinforcing rather than undercutting the FDA's regulatory function.
The Dangers of Magical Thinking: Situating Right to Try Laws, Patient Rights, and The Language of Advocacy
Still, one of
act up's most significant protests took place in October 1988 at the FDA.
Acting up: a new history of aids activism during the plague years
ACT UP had been around and making news for two years before my folly collided with their reality in September 1989.
Don't mourn, organize: Joe Hill's children. (Book Review)
Through Health GAP and GTAC,
ACT UP has built alliances within the antiglobalization movement.
ACT UP Goes Global : AN EARLY US AIDS GROUP EMPLOYS DIRECT ACTION TO OPPOSE INJUSTICE EVERYWHERE
The impetus for the street theater tactics for which
ACT UP would become known originated in two spheres committed to social justice: public protest and traditional theater.
Bearing witness and taking action: audiences and morality in renaissance tragedy and activist street theater
"It was real." In many ways--in their teaching, writing, activism, and artmaking--those interviewed seemed to feel that
ACT UP supplied meaning to everything they had done since, because they had had the experience of working collectively on something "utterly urgent, completely improvised, totally responsive and nimble [and] highly intelligent," said Tom Kalin.
Lest We Forget
Contrary to this perspective, I propose that Earth First!,
ACT UP, and Queer Nation's tactics are arguments in their own right and that their bodies are central to the force of their arguments.
Unruly arguments: the body rhetoric of Earth First!, ACT UP, and Queer Nation
Up to now, that distinction has been the basis for
ACT UP's militant critique of what it calls the government's "murderous" inaction on AIDS.
Empowerment or co-optation?
ROBERT VAZQUEZ: I remember that well, because I was at-large representative from the floor of
ACT UP, and I would hear discussions about Gran Fury: "Every other committee of
ACT UP is open; why is it that with Gran Fury we don't know who they are and their membership is closed?" It was counterintuitive for the
ACT UP membership to have a closed group.
Gran Fury talks to Douglas Crimp. ('80s Then)
In the heart of San Francisco's Castro district, where I live, the
ACT UP logo itself has so much cachet, offers such tangible proof of one's membership in a snugly insular klatch of one's peers, that it has become the Gucci or Calvin Klein designer label of the 1990s, a clubbish insignia that announces cliquishness rather than political conviction.
AIDS Demo Graphics
At an early
ACT UP rally, he stood in the rain, reading to a crowd from a soggy piece of paper.
My Postmodernism. (My '80s)
regulates all these options and is thus, according to
ACT UP, "at the crux of virtually every issue concerning treatments for AIDS." Jim Eigo, a member of the
ACT UP issues committee and one of the principal architects of the organization's demands, says the central problem is that "the F.D.A.
Battling the F.D.A.: AIDS movement seizes control
1987 Larry Kramer and several hundred other activists found the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (
ACT UP), an organization that transforms the ways in which lesbian and gay protest occurs and leaves an indelible mark on the epidemic by radicalizing activism.
Innovation through the ages
Keith Haring begins sketching his artwork on ad boards in New York City subway stations, Within a few years he is heralded as one of the leading young artists of his lime, Before his death from AIDS complications in 1990, he becomes an AIDS activist, contributing artwork to fund
ACT UP's mission.
Take a Wilde RIDE
ACT UP is down to a handful of chapters and members, but its old fire still smolders
still angry after all these years