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The legacy of ACT UP and its fight to end AIDS

The legacy of ACT UP and its fight to end AIDS

It's Been a Minute vor 4 Jahren

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Sam revisits his 2021 conversation with Sarah Schulman about ACT
UP. The organization united a diverse, non-partisan group of
individuals committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. In
Schulman's book, Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP
New York, 1987-1993, she draws from nearly 200 interviews with ACT
UP members to document the movement's history and explore how the
group's activism transformed the way the media, the government,
corporations and medical professionals talked about AIDS and
provided treatment. Schulman and Sam discuss this transformation
and its relevance to social movements today.

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