The 25th anniversary of the formation of ACT UP recently passed and Democracy Now did a piece on this documentary.
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 a remarkable history of AIDS activism and how it (Read more…)