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You Are Not Alone<br />
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World Aids Day<br />
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GETDOWNPSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270917451056276654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508147201114001658.post-70019978581874123862013-11-14T09:20:00.003-08:002013-11-14T09:20:57.360-08:00Many Faces, One Dream: The Conference<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As you know, GET DOWN is a supporter of the LGBT Community. In addition, we often talk about how lower socio-economic status is a barrier, not only to good health care, but oftentimes education as well. When an opportunity arises to spread the word about economic empowerment in the LGBT Community, especially communities of color, we could not resist sharing with everyone who reads this. <b><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001JigB6EGgiZPfdhM5UK6354DhrcPw41hZvpHmBqsMU59unklrcBOBz8dtFds4prvabSAD008kDFKP1rR2geINH98HJwQCuwln-ikyqNmhc7_c0mK8ANbSW3pb_Zq2HcZW" shape="rect" style="color: #a20000; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"><i>Many Faces. One Dream.</i> LGBT Economic Empowerment Tour for Communities of Color will be taking place in New York City on Novmeber 20-21st, 2013. </span> </a></b>Because upliftment of a community is the upliftment of the ENTIRE community as a whole. So, no matter how you GET DOWN, be economically empowered also! And, as always, <i><b>GET TESTED and KNOW YOUR STATUS.</b></i></span></span></div>
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our premiere collaboration with <b><span style="color: green;">TD Bank</span></b>, our newest national partner!</span></span></div>
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creativity in the small business sphere by providing expert training and
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gives birth to a virtual nation of entrepreneurs, we will benefit immensely
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Become a part of the nation's only initiative
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On Thursday, June 27th, the <b>GET DOWN Campaign’s</b> <b>No More Stigma Film Series </b>kicked off NY Pride with <b>Global Network of Black Pride </b>at Maysles Cinema, Harlem, NY. In conjunction with partner organizations <b>GMAD, SWERV Magazine, Harlem Pride, Anti Violence Project and Until There's A Cure</b>, there was a special Harlem Pride and NYC Pride Week screening of the feature documentary film <b><i>T.V. Transvestite</i></b>. The film was preceded by the short <b><i>"The Show Must Go On: The Story Of Snookie Lanore"</i></b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The event was hosted by <b>Tamara Williams </b>who plays Danielle from the hit Youtube web series, No Shade and <b>Destiny DuMure Pucci</b> (Nashid Corbin), and Executive member of Gay Men of African Descent Youth Advisory Board. The feature was preceded by the short film The Show Must Go On: The Story Of Snookie Lanore by director Zachary Kussin, who was in attendance for the post-screening Q&A. The guests were then treated to a Mini-Ball (three categories) featuring<b> The Paragon House of GianMarco Lorenzi</b> and hosted by <b>Iconic Father Kamari Lorenzi – Miyake Mugler</b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An open letter from Glennda Testone, Executive Director of New York's <span style="color: #686868; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center on safety.</a></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dear Friends, </span></span></i></div>
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1508147201114001658" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As many of you know, the LGBT community has faced a recent string of hate
crimes, including the horrific murder of a young man in the West Village and
three more possible incidences just this week. We at the Center joined many of
you to respond with sadness and outrage this past Monday for a March and Rally
Against Hate Violence. Whether you were here in person or in spirit, you were a
crucial part of spreading the message that the LGBT community is strong, united
and unwilling to accept this senseless hatred and violence.
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To help us all feel safer in these troubling times, the New York City
Anti-Violence Project will launch the <b><a href="http://mycenter.gaycenter.org/page.redir?target=http%3a%2f%2fwww.avp.org&srcid=27596&srctid=1&erid=7603638&trid=c59fb93f-d327-4c9e-9241-f44f4ca6644b"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Friday</span><span style="color: windowtext;"> Community Safety Nights initiative, beginning this
Friday, May 24</span></a></b>. Every Friday night through the end of June, AVP
will be doing outreach in neighborhoods affected by anti-LGBTQ violence to
raise awareness and provide people with information and safety tips. They will
work to bring community members together to talk about what we can do to address
and prevent this violence – and you can help! AVP needs dedicated volunteers
and concerned community members to join them in bringing the message of safety
to the streets.<br />
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To join AVP for the first Friday Community Safety Night, please contact Tasha Amezcua
at <b><a href="mailto:tamezcua@avp.org"><span style="color: windowtext;">tamezcua@avp.org</span></a></b>. Please also know that
AVP offers support and assistance via their free and confidential 24-hour
bilingual (English/Spanish) hotline at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: windowtext;">212.714.1141</span></a>, where you can speak with a
trained counselor and seek support. You can also report violence anonymously
online to <b><a href="http://mycenter.gaycenter.org/page.redir?target=http%3a%2f%2fwww.avp.org&srcid=27596&srctid=1&erid=7603638&trid=c59fb93f-d327-4c9e-9241-f44f4ca6644b"><span style="color: windowtext;">www.avp.org</span></a></b>.<br />
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We are sincerely grateful to AVP for all that they do, and to you for being
part of what makes our community so special. Stay strong, and don’t hesitate to
reach out to the Center if you need help by calling <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: windowtext;">212.620.7310</span></a>
or emailing <b><a href="mailto:info@gaycenter.org"><span style="color: windowtext;">info@gaycenter.org</span></a>.
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approaching in the United States, the flyers start to appear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some read “Beach Fest”, “Freak Fest”, and
“Urban Paradise”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They all
advertise some kind of Caribbean get away and most of them feature an overtly
sexual image of a bikini clad Latina, who is meant to represent the island
where the weekend fantasy escape is being held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set against a backdrop of pristine blue waters, white sand
and upscale resorts, she has a “come hither” look in her eye that promises, for
your weekend package of less than $1,000 all inclusive, a non-stop roller
coaster of freaky beach fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Throw
in some urban, rap or Latin music celebrity involvement and a good time will be
had by all, right? </span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zUC46PjzvxM/UZow7I75cmI/AAAAAAAABUs/ebpElX7xOEU/s1600/DR+Flyer+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="146" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zUC46PjzvxM/UZow7I75cmI/AAAAAAAABUs/ebpElX7xOEU/s320/DR+Flyer+3.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Source: <span class="description"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">www.urbanparadise2013.co</span>m</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">In the February 2010 issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Essence</i> Magazine, writer Keith Murphy blew
up the spot with an article “Fools Paradise” which detailed that men, and
especially African American men, are traveling to the Dominican Republic for
“sexual vacations”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a young Dominicana, who grew up in
the neighborhoods with some of the very girls and young ladies who are
exploiting themselves (and being exploited) for sexual gain of tourists, I
thought I take a closer look at the link between prostitution among school aged
youth and the “new” sexual tourism these weekends promote and how the two contribute
to the spread of HIV and other STDs among the diaspora in the Dominican
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">I was born and raised in the Dominican
Republic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Growing up I would
witness a lot of women from my small neighborhood standing outside, into the
wee hours of the night. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I grew
very curious about why these young women would wore exotic clothes with heels
and stood to wait for cars driven by men to pick them up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never understood the reason behind
this till I asked my mother one day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was 11 at the time, still hitting puberty and very curious
just about anything. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I
have asked my mother about it, my mother said, “that is the work place for most
of those women”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t
understand why someone would go to work dressed in such manner and have pickups
from different men at different times of the night. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess at that time I was young to understand prostitution
so my mother kept it from me. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Prostitution has always existed in
every corner of the globe, and goes as far back as time itself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While in many countries, including the
United States, prostitution is illegal, in the Dominican Republic, it is legal,
as long as a third-party does not benefit (e.g. a pimp, brothels, etc.).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No go betweens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some countries, it is usually
not viewed as a “serious crime”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is seen as a morality issue instead. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every country has their specific respective view of
prostitution and the Dominican Republic is no exception. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source:
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"> In general, prostitutes are depicted on
American television and in Hollywood films in a wide range of ways from drug
addicted homeless women lurking in the shadows of urban city streets to high
priced escorts who cater to some of the richest men in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Growing up I had no idea the
pretty faces with great bodies and provocative clothes were simply doing their
job, selling their bodies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I
lived in middle class neighborhood prostitution was common for both sex.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More often young girls, more so than
young boys, were seen being escorted by “johns” who will go to get a pickup in
exchange for money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quickly rumors
spread about girls my age and especially the ones infected with HIV/AIDS. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">My mother offered no help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sex was – and still in – a touchy
subject in my household. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
parents were very private when it came to this subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I came across my menstrual cycle
my mother was the only one who opened the subject but wasn’t entirely open to
it either.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I completed elementary
grades first through fourth grade in the Dominican Republic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my opinion, public education in
Dominican Republic is not that great, as compared to United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was attending public school in my
neighborhood of Santiago in Dominican Republic, when sex education was
introduced to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Typically, in
DR, when it comes to boys, typically families they never speak about the
subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Men just grow up with the
influence of what is around them in typical neighborhoods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parents don’t talk to boys about sex
the same way they talk to girls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Girls are handled in a more protective, strict and prudish fashion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are not aware or taught proper sex
education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most families in
Dominican Republic are either Christian, catholic or Jehovah Witness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religion and cultural mores play a huge
role in how a child is raised and educated about sex.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">After leaving the dangerous streets
back in my country, we moved to a tiny community of Dominicans in downtown
Brooklyn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sex education became
more clear and respectful to talk about it with my school counselors in public school,
where I finished my puberty years. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now in the United States, I began to see the same pattern - girl
friends that would work late hours and miss school because of their alternative
way of living. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now college
aged, I am more sexually educated and aware of the sex trade that exploits
young girls and women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flyers that
advertise my favorite artists will appear during Memorial Day Weekend “urban
fantasy escapes”, or even during Spring Break vacations, are meant to capture
my attention, but I often wonder if the young men, some my peers, who are
attracted to the promise of unbridled sex, are thinking about the
consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surely, everyone is
not packing condoms in their swim trunks for the nighttime beach bikini
affair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, some of these
“urban fantasy escapes” can lead to unwanted HIV, STDs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not exactly the music video
fantasy advertised on the flyer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to statistical data from the
Presidential AIDS Council (COPRESIDA), in the Dominican Republic it is estimated
that approximately 46,500 people are living with the HIV virus.<span> </span>Statistical data revealed that 18<sup> </sup>%
of the AIDS cases reported in the country occur among young people of 15 to 24
years olds. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">These are only with the possibility
that some may have children infected as well. <span> </span>The disease has greatly affected the female population, as it
has become the leading cause of death among women of reproductive age. <span> </span>There are currently 23,000 adult women
between the ages of 15 and 49 with HIV/AIDS. <span> </span>COPRESIDA stated in the same article that HIV/AIDS has also
greatly affected children in the Dominican Republic. <span> </span>Estimates indicate that they’re 2,200 children below the age
of 15 infected by the disease, and that approximately 58,000 children were
either orphans or at risk of becoming orphans because of HIV/AIDS infected
parents. <span> </span><span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The especially disturbing news, given
the sexual tourism trade that flourishes on the island, is that the main mode
of transmission of HIV/AIDS in the Dominican Republic is through heterosexual
sex. <span> </span>According to the article, <i>“</i><i>HIV/AIDS and the Dominican
Republic: A look at a Pandemic” </i>(<a href="http://dr1.com/articles/hiv.shtml">http://dr1.com/articles/hiv.shtml</a>), roughly 1.7% of the Dominican
population has been infected with the disease, which translates to an estimated
46,500 people infected in the country. <span> </span>Of the 46,500 infected with HIV/AIDS, 23,500 are adult men
between the ages of 15 and 49.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">According to the US National Library of
Medicine, the abstract article of <i>“HIV/AIDS
and Tourism in the Caribbean”</i> (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2791250/">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2791250/</a>), published January 2010, “Studies suggest that tourism areas are epicenters
of demographic and social changes linked to HIV risk, such as transactional sex”. It
continues that “Despite this, no formative HIV-prevention studies have examined
tourism areas as ecologies that heighten HIV vulnerability.”<span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">While there is still a sexual tourism
epidemic, many charities and organizations are collaborating together to stop
and limit the spread of HIV (and other STDs) by informing people and creating
policies that provide protection. <span> </span>Some of the local main organizations where you can
always find information are the DREAM Project, Outreach 360, Sister Island
Project and the Una Vida organization. <span> </span>Mainly all of these programs share the common mission to
spread the awareness of this fast growing epidemic disease that is ending
pretty young lives. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Looking at the statistics on HIV/AIDS
in the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean can be overwhelming, but it could
be said that there is a move towards curbing the rise of the pandemic in the
region. <span> </span>I hope with the help of
new volunteers and other organizations we are able to decrease this number of
infected people and continue to empower communities with interventional
educational programs for the younger crowd who sweeping the streets right now;
and also who the highest in risk of being infected. <span> </span>I hope that other young Dominicans like myself, will
stem the cycle of not talking about sex and take time learn more about HIV and
other STDs.<span> </span>We need to
collectively talk more openly about sex and break the cycle of silence, for all
of our sakes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope that all children born in the
Dominican Republic have the opportunity to receive an education and learn to
their full potential. <span> </span>It is my hope
that organizational efforts can be multiplied to allow the opportunity for
every child and adult sex education be met with support. <span> </span>We cannot do so unless we break the
cycle of poverty and change people’s destinies in alleviating poverty,
strengthening educ<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>ation, and enhancing public health. <span> </span>It is my dream that the world will be a
better place for the children and families of the next generation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We can’t do it alone.<span> </span>So, before you book that “urban oasis
fantasy getaway”, ask yourself, will what happens on vacation, really stay on
vacation?<span> </span>Think about it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Melissa Rodriguez</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">GET DOWN Youth Blogger</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="mailto:rmbrooklyn@gmail.com">rmbrooklyn@gmail.com</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>For HIV
information and assistance in the Dominican Republic:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
World Health Organization</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.who.int/en/">http://www.who.int/en/</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.who.int/es/index.html">http://www.who.int/es/index.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">UNICEF</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><cite>https://www.unicef.org</cite></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">United
States Peace Corps</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><cite>www.peacecorps.gov</cite></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><cite>www.unaids.org</cite></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The DREAM Project</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://dominicandream.org</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Outreach360 Project</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span><span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.outreach360.org/dominicanrepublic/</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Sister Island Project</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.sisterislandproject.org/index.html</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Una Vida Project</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span><span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://una-vida.org/meet-dominican-republic/</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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GETDOWNPSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270917451056276654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508147201114001658.post-58244400501118462942013-03-25T16:10:00.000-07:002013-03-25T16:10:49.717-07:00Inspired In New York Honors The Icon CYNDI LAUPER<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">An exciting evening honoring the legend Cyndi Lauper<span style="font-size: small;">!</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Inspired In New York Honors<br />
The Legendary Icon<br /><b>CYNDI LAUPER</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b><br />Event Date: APRIL 15, 2013 in NYC</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grammy and Emmy award winning artist, <b>CYNDI LAUPER</b> (<i>Composer and Lyricist</i>)
is being honored by INSPIRED IN NEW YORK on April 15, 2013 at Tian At
The Riverbank in historic Harlem, NY. Attendance is by INVITE ONLY.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />For over twenty-five years, <b>Cyndi Lauper</b>
has been dazzling—and surprising—her fans all over the world. A
multi-talented artist and one of music’s most beloved icons, she has
racked up global record sales of over 50 million (<i>and 14 Grammy nominations</i>)
and has won countless awards, from a Grammy and an Emmy to numerous
honors for her tireless activism to ensure equality for all and to bring
an end to gay and transgender youth homelessness through her
foundation, the <b>True Colors Fund</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />In celebration of Ms. Lauper’s Broadway debut of her new musical <b>Kinky Boots</b>
which opens on Broadway at the Hirschfeld Theatre on April 4th, the
title release of Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir, the debut reality television
show ‘Still So Unusual’ on WE TV and her numerous years as an innovator
and trendsetter in the arts, media and entertainment industries <b>Cyndi Lauper</b> will receive a Congressional proclamation from the honorable <b>Congressman Charles Rangel</b> and a city proclamations from <b>Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer </b>and<b> Speaker of the New York City Council Christine Quinn</b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>April 15th will be declared Cyndi Lauper Day in New York!</b></span><br /><br />The
crème de la crème of the entertainment industry will be in attendance
to support and honor this legendary entertainer on her very special day.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />For press inquiries and further information contact: <a href="mailto:camille@cmegrp.com" target="_blank">camille@cmegrp.com</a><br /><br />Contributing Sponsors: <b>CME Group, Promotional Pro Ent. and Global Network of Black Pride<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">RSVP at: <a href="http://inspirednyapril2013.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">inspirednyapril2013.<wbr></wbr>eventbrite.com</a></span></span></div>
GETDOWNPSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270917451056276654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508147201114001658.post-80407651645332316422013-03-25T14:23:00.002-07:002013-03-25T14:25:12.984-07:00Spring Is Here! Time to GET DOWN!!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spring Is Here! You know what that means! The high school and college kids get that Spring fever. Start shedding clothes and making a bee line for hot fun, sun and sand! Time to GET DOWN!! Well, for us that means, keep pushing! The warmer the weather, the more GETTING DOWN.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once again, we're ramping up for a new season. Just started the new Spring 2013 semester interns!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">First, meet Melissa.
Melissa Rodriguez is a senior at Brooklyn College, double majoring in
psychology and creative writing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her passion is writing and blogging about fashion, art,
talent, human awareness and more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She also has a passion for science and
her goal is to become a doctor one day and have some of her work published. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She feels fortunate very fortunate to have
been selected in this internship from many who have applied previously. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Says Melissa, “I am very grateful and
excited to get started this year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have taken an interest in the awareness of HIV/AIDS around the world. I have
studied, read many articles from the past to now and I have written some blogs
about my views. I have also participated in projects in the past to teach what
is this STD and everything it has influenced. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am just a normal girl who works hard in her studies, loves
to write, works hard and appreciates the effort of others spreading knowledge
to those most in need.” Well said Melissa! </span></span><style>
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<span class="il">Carlos</span> Maximiliano Brufau. But
you can call him "Maxi".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He's is a proud Spring
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GETDOWNPSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270917451056276654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508147201114001658.post-60162738292831456742013-02-08T10:51:00.000-08:002013-02-08T10:51:03.856-08:00Photos From "The Other City" at No More Stigma Film Series<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">The GET DOWN Campaign, Maysles Cinema,
and partners Global Network of Black Pride, GMAD, MEGA Personalities and
A-Marketing/Be Life Media screening of “The Other City” by director
Susan Koch.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(From Left to Right) Kim J. Ford, founder GET DOWN campaign and No More Stigma Film Series; Ulysses Williams, VP Operations, Global Network of Black Pride and Ksisay of Maysles Cinema.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(From Left to Right) Romeo So-Leng Milan, GMAD and Kim J. Ford</td></tr>
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review of "The Other City" and mention of it's showing TOMORROW, Febr<span style="font-size: small;">uary 7th,</span> at
Maysles Cinema in Harlem at Get Down's NO MORE STIGMA FILM SERIES! 3.5
of 4 stars! Check it out! </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<strong>THE GET DOWN CAMPAIGN’S NO MORE STIGMA FILM SERIES PRESENTS THE OTHER CITY (Susan Koch, 2010)</strong><br />
Maysles Cinema<br />
343 Malcolm X Blvd. between 127th & 128th Sts.<br />
Thursday, February 7, $10, cocktail reception 6:30, screening 7:30<br />
212-582-6050<br />
<a href="http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/cinema/nomorestigma.html">www.mayslesinstitute.org</a><br />
<a href="http://www.theothercity.com/">www.theothercity.com</a><br />
<img align="left" alt="" class="ads" src="http://twi-ny.com/3.5.gif" />Washington,
DC, might be famous as a city filled with wealthy politicians,
international ambassadors, ruthless lobbyists, and tourists visiting
some of the finest cultural institutions and historical monuments in the
world, but lurkng in the shadows is a very different story. As revealed
in Susan Koch’s surprising documentary <em>The Other City,</em> the
District of Columbia is in the midst of an HIV/AIDS epidemic that is
actually on par with what many African nations are experiencing. <h5 class="uiStreamMessage userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"type":1,"tn":"K"}">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We just witnessed HISTORY. The second swearing
in of the first African American President of the United States. With
an eye on Washington – or is it "DC, The Chocolate City"– we bring you
our <b>No More Stigma Film Series</b> at Maysles Cinema on <b>February 7th - African American HIV Awareness Day</b>.
Maysles Cinema, the GET DOWN Campaign and our event partners A-Marketing, MEGA Personalities, Global Network of Black Pride present the documentary film <b>"The Other City". </b></span></span><style>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">In every city, there's another city that visitors rarely see. But this
other city isn't just anywhere, it's in Washington, D.C. The very city
that is home to the capital of the most powerful country in the world
has an HIV/AIDS rate that is not only the nation's highest, but rivals
some African countries. <b>"The Other City"</b> introduces us to the people
who live in the shadow of the Capitol but remain almost invisible to the
lawmakers and lobbyists who live there.</span></span></span></span></div>
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government assistance stop them, and have taken matters into their own
hands. After contracting HIV from a boyfriend who didn’t disclose he
was infected, Jose Ramirez devotes his life to promoting HIV awareness
among Hispanic teens. While living with AIDS and fighting desperately to
keep herself and her three young children from being thrown out of
their home, J’Mia Edwards realizes she can play a role in helping
others. A one-time addict now living with AIDS, Ron Daniels saves lives
by providing clean needles and helping drug users receive treatment.
And finally, the staff of the AIDS hospice Joseph’s House struggles to
provide solace to terminal patients’ last days, to deal with their own
sense of loss, and their constantly declining funding.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">For these activists, remedies can’t be found within the confines of
an office or a regular schedule: for some the work encompasses
round-the-clock care-giving, and for others a never-ending trek through
the squalid drug dens and clandestine park trails where people engage in
risky behavior. Informal HIV/AIDS organizations are set up wherever
people can congregate to share experiences and offer mutual support.
Still, without financial support, large-scale progress is beyond the
scope of these endeavors. In this environment, forward movement means
providing comfort for the afflicted and saving as many lives as
possible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Come join us for the screening of <b>"The Other City"</b> at Maysles Cinema. The event will be hosted by Richard E. Pelzer II and Ulysses Williams (Global Network of Black Pride). Doors open for a cocktail reception at 6:30pm and screening starts at 7:30pm. Maysles Cinema is located at
343 Malcolm X Boulevard / Lenox Avenue, between 127th and 128th Street. Two blocks from the #2/#3 trains to 125th Street, near the world famous Apollo Theater. Admission is $10. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">THE GET DOWN CAMPAIGN AND MAYSLES CINEMA</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">SCREENS </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">WE WERE HERE </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">BY DIRECTOR DAVID WEISSMAN</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">at the NO MORE STIGMA FILM SERIES</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">WE WERE HERE </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"> IS FIRST
DOCUMENTARY TO TAKE A DEEP AND REFLECTIVE LOOK BACK AT THE ARRIVAL AND IMPACT
OF AIDS IN SAN FRANCISCO</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30</span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: super;">TH</span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">, 2012</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">At MAYSLES CINEMA</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ORGANIZATIONS A-MARKETING, GMHC, </span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Still image from <i>We Were Here</i> courtesy of New Yorker Films</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The GET DOWN Campaign’s No More Stigma Film Series continues on
October 30</span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="color: black;"> at </span><span style="color: black;">Maysles</span><span style="color: black;"> Cinema in Harlem, NY with the feature documentary film </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">We Were Here</span><span style="color: black;">. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">We Were Here</span><span style="color: black;">,
directed by David </span><span style="color: black;">Weissman</span><span style="color: black;">, is the
first documentary to take a deep and reflective look back at the arrival and
impact of AIDS in San Francisco. It explores how the City’s inhabitants were
affected by, and how they responded to, that calamitous epidemic. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">We Were Here </span><span style="color: black;">documents
the coming of what was called the “Gay Plague” in the early 1980s. It
illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the AIDS
epidemic as well as the broad political and social upheavals it unleashed. It
offers a cathartic validation for the generation that suffered through, and
responded to, the onset of AIDS. It opens a window of understanding to those
who have only the vaguest notions of what transpired in those years. It
provides insight into what society could, and should, offer its citizens in the
way of medical care, social services, and community support.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Filmmakers David </span><span style="color: black;">Weissman</span><span style="color: black;"> and Bill Weber co-directed the 2001 documentary, </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">The </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">Cockettes</span><span style="color: black;">, chronicling San
Francisco’s legendary theater troupe of hippies and drag queens, 1969 – 1972. </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">We Were Here </span><span style="color: black;">revisits
San Francisco a decade later, as its flourishing gay community is hit with an
unimaginable disaster.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The October 30</span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="color: black;"> event will begin with a reception at
6:30pm, the screening at 7:30pm and a post-screening Q&A with director
David </span><span style="color: black;">Weissman</span><span style="color: black;">. </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">We Were Here </span><span style="color: black;">will be
preceded by a short documentary entitled </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">Something About Katie</span><span style="color: black;">,
directed by </span><span style="color: black;">Rutger’s</span><span style="color: black;">
University journalism major Kyle Sweet, created under the GET DOWN Campaign’s
Summer 2012 internship program.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">In 2010, the GET DOWN Campaign launched with goal of educating
and spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS to a primary audience of 13-24 year old
teens and young adults and a secondary audience of their care givers. Through social media, blogging, viral
content, events and now the No More Stigma Film Series, GET DOWN continues
using digital media to engage audiences around HIV/AIDS and sexual health. After developing the concept of for the
No More Stigma Film Series, GET </span><span style="color: black;">DOWN’s</span><span style="color: black;"> founder and executive producer Kim J. Ford approached </span><span style="color: black;">Maysles</span><span style="color: black;"> Cinema’s Jessica Green, cinema
director, about getting involved.
Says Ford “Since we launched with Harlem’s FACES NY as our charity
partner and are now expanding to partner with Harlem United, it made sense to
approach </span><span style="color: black;">Maysles</span><span style="color: black;">
Cinema.” The </span><span style="color: black;">Maysles</span><span style="color: black;"> Cinema, the only independent film
house north of Lincoln Center in Manhattan, is dedicated to the exhibition of
documentary film. Ford continues “With their roots in the Harlem community,
accessibility, Summer programs for youth, and social issue oriented
programming, we knew </span><span style="color: black;">Maysles</span><span style="color: black;"> Cinema
was the right partner.” The short
film </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">Something About Katie</span><span style="color: black;">, produced under GET </span><span style="color: black;">DOWN’s</span><span style="color: black;"> Summer 2012 Internship Program, is an example of viral content
produced by and about the youth that GET DOWN seeks to reach.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">GET DOWN understands that there is a need for more HIV, AIDS,
and overall sexual health awareness.
Additionally, more education is required around gender and sexual
identity. Stigma and shame is still a huge barrier to testing. The
No More Stigma Film Series seeks to stimulate open conversation about HIV,
AIDS, Stigma and Sexual Identity. “The No More Stigma Film Series”, says
Ford, “has as its goal to to reinforce the fact that HIV/AIDS does not
discriminate.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The No More Stigma Film Series kicked off in June with the
feature documentary </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">The Carrier </span><span style="color: black;">and a sneak preview of the highly anticipated </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">25 To Life</span><span style="color: black;">. The October 30</span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="color: black;"> screening of </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">We
Were Here </span><span style="color: black;">marks the second of a three event
screening series in 2012. The
final event of 2012 will take place on December 1</span><span style="color: black; vertical-align: super;">st</span><span style="color: black;"> – World
Aids Day.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This summer
I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Ethiopia for one month. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With two other students from my university
and six from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, we spent our time at Yesewasew
Genet orphanage in Debre Libanos, which is about two hours north of the capitol
city, Addis Ababa. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our goal was to
establish a library and teach enrichment classes to the students at the
orphanage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I flew 14 hours and
7,000 miles to a country that has surprised me in every way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was not expecting the lush green
countryside, the misty mountains, monkeys, constant sound of Ge’ez chants, or
the good-hearted and wonderful people I met everywhere. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve learned a few dozen words in
Amharic, the local language in the area I stayed in, and I became very close to
the beautiful children that I worked with.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Africa.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> It sounded like another world to my
middle-class, suburban ears. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything
about the continent seemed exotic and dangerous. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was warned about the dangers of mosquitos carrying malaria,
food that I won’t be used to, and the very, very wet weather in the mountain
region. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ethiopians I met at my
school told me about the welcoming culture, the extended families that span
from one side of the country to the other, and the unceasing friendships I
would make there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before going to
the country, I only knew how to say one word in Amharic: “Amaseganalo,” which
is Amharic for “thank you.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used
that word more than any other during the trip.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Debre Libanos, Ethiopia. Photo by Virginia Marshall.</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My mother was
mainly concerned about my immunization from diseases prevalent in the area like
Typhoid, Yellow Fever, and Hepatitis B. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is a doctor, and all too familiar with illnesses due to
ignorance or unpreparedness. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had
six shots in the month proceeding my departure, and I took malaria pills every
day while in the country. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But my
mother’s caution is a luxury, and even for American citizens whose mothers are
not doctors, health care is luxurious compared to the availability of medical
care in countries like Ethiopia. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
Ethiopia, 1.5% of the populations is living with HIV/AIDS, according to USAID’s
website, and many villages are still struggling to get clean water,
electricity, and plumbing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
orphanage I stayed at thankfully had electricity, but their water source was a
single pump in the center of the compound, and we had to drink bottled water
because our stomachs were not used to the types of bacteria in the water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://transition.usaid.gov/press/frontlines/fl_may12/FL_may12_ETH_INTRO.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://transition.usaid.gov/press/frontlines/fl_may12/FL_may12_ETH_INTRO.html</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Most people
in Ethiopia still live in very remote and rural areas where there are no
schools for the children, let alone access to hospitals or medications. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> At-home births are risky because of the
high probability of unsanitary conditions, and mostly responsible for the high
infant mortality rate; 88 out of 1,000 children do not live past age five. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there is the risk of
mother-to-child HIV transmission, a danger that has been pretty much eliminated
in the United States. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is possible
to prevent mother-to-child transmission, but the mother must take the proper
precautions before giving birth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
must take a series of pills, which is easy to do in a developed country like
the United States where health education and resources are funded by the
government. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, most
Ethiopians live <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">days </i>away from large
cities where there are health clinics and doctors. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very few doctors travel around the country educating
citizens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is one doctor for
every 36,000 Ethiopians, whereas in the United States, there is approximately
one doctor for every 500 people, according to indexmundi.com. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But thanks
to Ethiopia’s new Minister of Health, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, and
USAID, there are programs in place now that bring nurses and health workers to
these remote villages to educate the people about getting testing and
prevention of HIV. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a new
program known as the “Female Army” (technically, the Health Extension Program),
women are trained in basic medical and preventive care, and then sent out into
remote areas of the country where they might assist with home births, or
provide basic medical services. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As
Dr. Ghebreyesus said in an interview with USAID, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“</span>To make these women’s groups really
work in the whole country, they need to be able to address three things:
maternal mortality, neonatal mortality and prevention of mother-to-child
transmission [of HIV/AIDS].”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Debre Libanos, Ethiopia. Photo by Virginia Marshall.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These
exemplary women do much more; they will lug clean water to remote farming
families, and, when possible, try to convince women to deliver their babies in
hospitals rather than at home. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ayelech
Getachew told USAID reporters in June that the satellite women center she runs
offers women information about various methods of contraception that can help
limit the size of their families. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Anyone
coming for family planning gets HIV tests,” Getachew added.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another
surprising part of Ethiopian culture was the huge influence of religion on
every day life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The orphans that
came to know lived in a monastery town, and many of the boys were training to
be priests. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every day both boys
and girls had to take four to six hours of spiritual lessons, and all children
were encouraged to follow the strict Ethiopian Orthodox calendar of fasting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order to honor many of the saints,
Orthodox Ethiopians abstain from food and attend church for a good part of the
day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have found Ethiopia to be a
country absorbed in traditions, many of which I have come to love, such as “gorsha,”
when a person serves the first bite of injera and wot (very moist flatbread
taken with hands and dipped into a savory stew) to another person as a gesture
of friendship. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to
the Wall Street Journal, in an article called “Ethiopians Trade Holy Water for
AIDS Drugs” published in March of 2012, many Ethiopians prefer their
traditional remedies to taking western pills for ailments that are new and
frightening, such as HIV. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
a holy water site on Mt. Entoto, very near Addis Ababa, that is thought to cure
AIDS. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By bathing in this water and
drinking at least a gallon of it daily, some Ethiopians believe they will be
cured, and so many adults suffering from HIV/AIDS travel to Entoto. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in a new push to get ARV
(antiretroviral) drugs into the country, medical workers encourage those who
are HIV positive to take ARV pills <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">along
with</i> their holy water remedies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some priests still warn that taking ARV pills is an
anti-Christian act, but many priests are now seeing the positive affect of
taking drugs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whereas three years
ago there were 71,900 deaths from AIDS yearly, in 2010 there were 28,100 deaths
thanks to the ARV drugs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
priest who works at Entoto, Woidbesenbet, said, “I encourage people to get
baptized and to take their medicine each day.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203806504577182932291514986.html?mod=googlenews_wsj"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203806504577182932291514986.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Debre Libanos, Ethiopia. Photo by Virginia Marshall.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Aside from
the “Female Army” education program, Ethiopia is doing a lot of work to make
sure their citizen know the facts about HIV. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, formal schooling is hard to coordinate for remote
Ethiopian communities; the students at the orphanage I worked at had to live in
another town in order to attend public High School, and many of the oldest
children had difficulty reading and doing simple math because of the scarcity
of education. According to indexmundi.com, only 42.7% of Ethiopians over the
age of 15 can read. </span></div>
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reported that less than 1% of Ethiopians have a TV, but 41% of households own a
radio. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, the primary mode
of communication with the public is through radio shows, not formal classes or
written pamphlets. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One radio
series, “Journey of Life,” is broadcast every Sunday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The radio show was developed by John
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and its goal is to educate about
HIV, and start conversations about the tough topic in remote communities. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is an excerpt from the show:</span></div>
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Mother: It is not only Dessa. It is said that Abebe, who had a shop in our
neighbour [sic], also died of YEDS. Anyway, many young people are dying of the
disease. It must be more serious in the big city, Addis Ababa. </span></div>
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Mother, AIDS does not differentiate between country and town. The disease is
caused by people traveling from place to place, and failing to restrict
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elias: No,
don’t be mistaken, Mother. One need not to travel to get AIDS. For example. One
can catch the disease through blood transfusion, if blood from an infected
person is given before it is tested. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hope that
the classes we taught and the books that we brought to the new library at the
orphanage in Debre Libanos will encourage the children to continue their
education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have come to care
deeply about the children I met, and each one has the potential to make a
difference in their own country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One day I hope to go back to Ethiopia to see what the children have done
with their lives, and to return to the place where I first learned about the
power of education. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Check out
this Wall Street Journal article “Ethiopians Trade Holy Water for AIDS Drugs”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a good read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can
check out the program I am travelled<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1508147201114001658" name="_GoBack"></a> with here. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s called Kids Helping Needy Kids, and
it is a non-profit organization started by my friend and classmate at college,
Mehron Price, and her sisters: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.khnkp.org/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.khnkp.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.indexmundi.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.indexmundi.com/</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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GETDOWNPSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270917451056276654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1508147201114001658.post-55946713207779771212012-09-24T13:32:00.001-07:002012-09-24T13:37:12.512-07:00Jamar Rogers Speaking at NYU<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> Meet JAMAR ROGERS from Season 2 of NBC's hit show </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">"THE VOICE" at NYU in New York this Thursday! </span> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L74C7AWp9e0/UGDCInAfSOI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/Q6YoagZDJ7o/s1600/Jrodgers.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L74C7AWp9e0/UGDCInAfSOI/AAAAAAAAAfQ/Q6YoagZDJ7o/s320/Jrodgers.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>He will be speaking at NYU in Manhattan with MOVE THE CROWD </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><b>about how he turned FAILURE into SUCCESS!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On the evening of the 27th, Move The Crowd will present the next installment in it’s critically acclaimed School Of Hard Knocks Series: Flipping Failure To Success. This networking event will be an intimate Oprah Style Interview with the up and coming star and renowned Cultural Innovator-In-The-Making - Jamar Rogers. This candid in depth interview will be an opportunity to discover actionable, real world insights about failure, success and longevity from the ground up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jamar Rogers reigns from New Orleans, LA. Growing up, he showed tremendous talent for singing as early as six years of age, but soon fell prey to negative influences and quickly became addicted to drugs. As his life began to spiral out of control; Jamar was declared HIV positive. Completely broken, Jamar somehow found the light in the darkest time of his life and began to turn things around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After six years of being clean from crystal meth, Jamar auditioned for The Voice and “the rest is history,” as they say. Since becoming a finalist on The Voice, Jamar has appeared on popular shows such as The Today Show, Ellen, CNN, E! Entertainment News, MTV News, and many more! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is a $50 event but if you register now, our ADINKRA HOUSE friends get in for FREE! That's right! FREE!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Details / REGISTER HERE ---></b> http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=ef14e610d56e90269862cc464&id=f99a0697ed&e=e3abe81dfc</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>WHAT:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Move The Crowd School Of Hard Knocks Series presents JAMAR ROGERS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Doors open 7:00 p.m. FREE if you register before midnight tonight. $50 if you don't.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>WHERE:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">NYU Open House Gallery</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">528 LaGuardia Place</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">New York, NY 10012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>NEW TO JAMAR ROGERS? CHECK THIS!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r7muSUrqYI</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5svx_dYzpA&feature=related</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>NEW TO MOVE THE CROWD? Check THIS!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1) http://www.movethecrowd.me/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W344lPDi6rU</span><br />
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</style> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">“ACT UP could
easily become your life,” said John Riley at a weekly ACT UP/NY meeting held
earlier this Summer on June 18<sup>th</sup>, 2012. He was talking about ACT UP when it first started in 1987,
when Americans were angry and scared, watching an incurable disease take the
lives of their friends and family.
“Meetings used to be held in Cooper Union, and up to 400 people would
go,” said Riley, who is one of the early members of ACT UP, and a co-founder of
Health GAP (Health Global Access Project </span><span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://www.healthgap.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia;">http://www.healthgap.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">)
an organization that works to provide generic AIDS drugs to developing
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Now, ACT UP
meetings are quite different. </span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">ACT UP</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, the AIDS
Coalition To Unleash Power, is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals
united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis (</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://www.actupny.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia;">http://www.actupny.org/</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">).
This year, ACT UP celebrates its 25 birthday. When I went to the June 18<sup>th</sup> meeting, there were
about 20 people who eventually trickled in, mostly older, original
members. There were maybe five
other people there around my age, all from other organizations like Queerocracy
or VOCAL-NY (Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders). It seemed to me that ACT UP had
fractured and branched out into a dozen new organizations focused on different
aspects of the AIDS fight — housing, health reform, community development, and
global distribution of HIV/AIDS drugs. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Part of what made
ACT UP so powerful in the beginning years was its mass of determined
youth. Demonstrations wracked with
symbolism and anger attracted publicity, and publicity attracted the
government’s attention. Suffering
young people were uniting to demand solutions to the AIDS crisis—they wanted
cheaper healthcare for those with the disease, and since very little was known
about AIDS, ACT UP demanded government money for research. “I was HIV positive in 1981, back when
they were calling the disease GRID — Gay-Related Immune Deficiency,” said Eric
Sawyer, one of the founders of the ACT UP, and a co-founder of Housing Works
and Health GAP. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">We now know that HIV does not only
affect Gay men, but in 1987 it did not matter what the disease was called
because thousands of people were dying from a disease that <i>might</i> be curable, if the government would only listen. “Every other
week there were obituaries read out during the general meetings—obituaries of
members who had just died from AIDS,” Riley remembers.</span></span></div>
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question Larry Kramer asks in his article in the Huffington Post (</span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-kramer/act-up_b_1382314.html"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia;">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-kramer/act-up_b_1382314.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> ) called
“Happy Birthday, ACT UP, wherever you are.” Kramer is a founding member of both
ACT UP and GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis), but in his recent article, he
wonders what and where ACT UP is today, and talks about the organization as if
it only exists in the past. According to Kramer, ACT UP was started by “a bunch
of terrified kids,” but it’s thanks to those scared young activists that those
diagnosed with HIV over 25 years ago are still alive and well today. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Today, the fight
against AIDS suffers from apathy because we have medications that can extend
the life of a person with HIV to its natural length. We know how HIV is transmitted, and how to prevent the
spread of HIV. Indeed the United
State has not only made pharmaceutical advances, but also political advances.
This July, Washington DC hosted the International AIDS Conference after
twenty-two years of not allowing people with HIV to enter the country. Today that law is no longer in
existence, but there are still policies in this country that feed
discrimination or prevent those infected with HIV from receiving the highest
level of medical care. </span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div>
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in Washington DC, protesters gathered to object to the current United States
ban on the entry of sex workers and drug users into the country. As these two populations are among the
highest risk groups for contracting AIDS, many protesters felt that to ignore
these populations is discrimination, and it is a human rights violation to
prevent them from receiving necessary medical attention. Those who showed up to the protest were
not explicitly representing ACT UP, but it did not go unmentioned that this
tradition of protest is mainly thanks to the original organizations that set
precedents for how to object and how to draw media attention to an important
issue. According to an article in The Nation </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">(</span><a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/169029/protest-greets-international-aids-conference-dc"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">http://www.thenation.com/blog/169029/protest-greets-international-aids-conference-dc</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> ),
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">As the father of the branch organizations that
demonstrated at the International AIDS Conference, ACT UP—and specifically ACT
UP/NY—was also getting ready for its time in the spotlight. When I attended the general meeting in
early July, ACT UP/NY was planning to join forces with Occupy Wall Street to
campaign for the Robin Hood Tax.
This tax is </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">something a
coalition of forces around the world, including ACT UP/NY, conceived to solve
many issues with one tax on government and big business practices such as
currency and stock exchanges. The
idea of the Robin Hood Tax, or the Financial Transaction Tax, was brought to
OWS where young and angry people began to rally support for the tax that will
raise money for poverty reduction, green energy implementation in developing
countries, and AIDS and healthcare coverage in the United States. OWS started</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> in much the same way as
ACT UP/NY;<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1508147201114001658" name="_GoBack"></a> both were formed by young people who were
frustrated with the government, and both started on Wall Street (the site of
ACT UP’s first New York protest). </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">This must be the sort of thing that Larry Kramer is
looking for. ACT UP is still
fighting and protesting with OWS and other AIDS activism organizations.</span></span></div>
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UP/NY meeting, plans to protest HIV criminalization during the Gay Pride march
were discussed. “We now have the history of 25 years of activism, and we know
now what to expect,” said Sawyer after the meeting, when I learned a few of ACT
UP’s current goals: decriminalization of HIV and financial propositions like
the Robin Hood Tax. Individual members of ACT UP had their own goals for the
future of AIDS reform, and many have devoted their careers to AIDS activism.
Sawyer, who now works at UNAIDS said “It’s not fair that I can buy thirty years
of life while people in the developing world die within two years of receiving
diagnosis.” Riley, Health GAP co-founder, also stated his goal that generic
AIDS drugs will one day be available to people in developing counties as well
as those with money in developed areas like the United States and Europe.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div>
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and goals of the organization has changed, but as long as people are willing to
fight for the cause, ACT UP will continue to affect change for another 25
years. By sharing goals and ideas with other activism groups today, ACT UP will
be able to share its wisdom and knowledge of how to unite a group of people to
affect social and political change.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">We’ve heard it before—a picture is worth a thousand
words. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If one can capture an idea
or a feeling completely and powerfully with a simple image, suddenly, a
movement is born. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><b>During the
beginning of the AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 80s and 90s, artists
banded together to create art in order to muster a feeling of protest and
camaraderie. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more the public knows
and cares about the deadly reality of AIDS, the greater the numbers of those
marching and demanding a cure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Public art, graffiti, and activist art emerged as rallying
points during the terrifying decades of the beginning of HIV/AIDS. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed that the only way to be heard
was to force images into a person’s everyday life: to paint subway walls with
protest symbols, and paste Xeroxed posters on sidewalks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">According to <b>Will Travers</b>, founder and executive
director of the cultural and political resistance website <b>lokashakti.org </b>(</span><a href="http://www.lokashakti.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">http://www.lokashakti.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;">), art is a logical way to unite people, and to
spread a message. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">It seems
like using art as a medium for protest is particularly effective because it's
accessible to so many different kinds of people. Street art even more so.
Just looking at something forces you to have a reaction,” said Travers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Travers’ organization promotes social
awareness by posting information about protest rallies and social justice
issues that are happening now, around the world, along with a separate blog
about protest art </span><a href="http://www.protestart.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">http://www.protestart.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like social networking for
activism, the goal being to be ‘in the know’ and prepared to join a cause as
quickly as Google maps on can load the directions to the start of a march or
location of a demonstration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>However,
in the early 80s and 90s, there was no Internet to spread the word about
protests or local activism. </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At a
time when HIV/AIDS activism desperately needed unity, artists struggled to
connect their art with the public. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not as simple as creating a Twitter account and
getting a large number of followers; getting the word out required a unique
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Keith
Haring </b>was among the artists who changed the way art was distributed and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">digested. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For those just getting up on Haring, he was a young, gay
artist in the time of <b>ACT UP</b> and <b>Paradise Garage</b> — which was a warehouse that
hosted DJ dance parties primarily for the gay community. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is known for his bold figures — the
‘radiant baby,’ the dog, and the UFO — and for his prevalence in street art. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">According to the <b>Keith Haring Foundation</b> website, in
an interview with <i>Rolling Stone</i> in 1989 (</span><a href="http://www.haring.com/archives/interviews/index.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">http://www.haring.com/archives/interviews/index.html</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;">), Haring talked about his experience creating
chalk drawings in subways. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It was
this chalk-white fragile thing in the middle of all this power and tension and
violence,” said Haring. “The subway pictures became a media thing, and the
images started going out into the rest of the world via magazines and
television.”</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="st"><i>Keith Haring</i>: 1978–1982 at Brooklyn Museum</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A picture of one of the chalk drawings Haring did
with his artist friend <b>Jean-Michel Basquiat</b>, another pioneer of symbolic
graffiti in the 80s and 90s, was recently featured among pieces at </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">the<b> Keith
Haring exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a chance to check out this
amazing exhibition, which was the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">first large-scale
exhibition to explore his early career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">By drawing where he was not
allowed, and forcing the public to confront whatever was put in front of them,
Haring and other activist artists made the public aware of important issues. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Haring also clipped headlines from newspapers,
arranged them in ridiculous ways, and then posted them on the streets. “The
idea was that people would be stopped in their tracks, not knowing whether it
was real or not… so they had to confront it and somehow deal with it,” said
Haring in the <i>Rolling Stone</i> interview. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Here’s a picture that I took of those newspaper
clippings</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">, again at the Brooklyn Museum</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="st"><i>Keith Haring</i>: 1978–1982 at Brooklyn Museum</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">But Haring
did not just do street art. He used his talent to promote other artist friends,
and raise awareness about issues important to him. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Haring
made this painting in 1988 to promote safe sex. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The image is bold and explicit, depicting two men jerking
each other off, but as is</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> the general
idea of protest art and graffiti: get in touch with your audience by bringing
the art to the people, even if the images are alarming. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Other artists continue this legacy today when
approaching current political and social issues. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><b>Molly Crabapple</b> is one such contemporary artist (</span><a href="http://mollycrabapple.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">http://mollycrabapple.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;">). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
makes protest art for <b>Occupy Wall Street</b>, among other artistic endeavors. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I don’t really believe in putting
things in boxes, I think things should be pervasive everywhere,” said
Crabapple. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She went on to talk
about the importance of creating a visual language—repeated and powerful
symbols that come to represent a movement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the same for Haring, as <b>Julia Gruen</b>, executive
director of the<b> Keith Haring Foundation</b>, stated to me as we traded emails. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">He
developed a visual language and alphabet based in part on semiotics, influenced
by comics and graffiti, and synthesized those disparate influences into a
vocabulary at once unique and yet somehow readable as part of a collective
unconscious.”</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> The Keith Haring
Foundation — a foundation Haring created<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>— was establised to ensure that his philanthropy would continue, and
that his images would be used for appropriate causes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gruen served as Haring’s own assistant from 1984 until his
death from AIDS in 1990. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Similar to the work that the Keith Haring
Foundation continues to do to support AIDS research and other worthy causes,
the west coast based <b>Alliance Health Project</b> also supports AIDS research by
holding a big art auction in San Francisco every year called Art For AIDS (</span><a href="http://artforaids.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">http://artforaids.org/</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> ). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According
to <b>dk haas</b>, artist and organizer of the event, <b>Art For AIDS</b> “was started by
some artists who were either themselves infected or knew of other people who
were affected by the disease.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Alliance Health Project was among the first in the country to offer anonymous
testing for HIV, and continues to offer health support for the LGBTQ community. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">It’s just another way art connects to activism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether its raising funds for research,
or getting the word out by way of an image, art is essential to unity and
progress. “I’ve been saying for a long time that contemporary art was very not
engaged with the outside world, and I think that with political people of the
last few years, not being engaged, and just sticking with your galleries has
become a cop out,” said Molly Crabapple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Here’s an image to leave you with, done by Haring
in collaboration with <b>ACT UP</b>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
an image of the pink triangle, which has visual significance outside of the
AIDS crisis; the <b>pink triangle </b>was used by Nazis in World War II to identify
homosexuals, and then again <b>used by ACT UP as a protest against the negative
stigma of AIDS</b>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here it is
superimposed by images of the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” and
ACT UP’s motto: “Silence = Death.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His art is telling us that if we don’t talk about being gay,
safe sex, and finding a cure, the consequence will be tragic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Here is a
link to the Keith Haring Foundation website, where a lot of Haring’s work is
archived digitally: </span><a href="http://www.haring.com/cgi-bin/art_search_lrg.cgi?id=00604&search=safe%20sex&start=40"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">http://www.haring.com/cgi-bin/art_search_lrg.cgi?id=00604&search=safe%20sex&start=40</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Having completed its run at Brooklyn Museum, Haring’s
‘radiant babies’ and more will travel to Santiago, Chile (8/20 - 9/29); Udine,
Italy (9/2 – 2/15/13); and Paris, France (4/19 – 8/18/2013).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keith Haring is also included an
upcoming group show at New York’s New Museum entitled </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">“</span></i><a href="http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/come-closer-art-around-the-bowery-1969-1"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; text-decoration: none;">Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969–1989</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">”</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">
(9/19 – 1/6/2013).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Museum </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times;">212-219-1222.</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia; letter-spacing: 1pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The heat is
on! You know what that means – Summer Concert Tours! On June 26<sup>th</sup>,
I got a chance to check out Glassnote Entertainment Group’s Childish
Gambino (aka Donald Glover) in New York.
At his shows, while Childish Gambino tears through underground viral
hits “Heartbeat” and “Outside” from his new album, “Camp,” representatives from
Lifebeat hand out condoms and encouraging Childish Gambino fans to get tested
for HIV/AIDS. As it turns
out, Lifebeat is partnering with Childish Gambino and other major concert tours
this year as well, including Coldplay, Madonna and Wiz Khalifa, to raise
awareness around HIV and help stop the spread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lifebeat,
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that brings AIDS awareness and money for AIDS research to music lovers and
concert-goers. </span></div>
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industry’s response to the HIV/AIDS crisis.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In New
York, Lifebeat hosts benefit concerts or other benefit events almost every year
when a portion of the ticket money is donated to AIDS research. The first
benefit concert took place in 1992 and female rap trio Salt-N-Pepa performed,
along with the iconic band Pet Shop Boys. Besides raising money and
awareness, these first bands demonstrated the power of music by performing
songs about the crisis. Salt-N-Pepa performed their seminal safe sex song
“Let’s Talk about AIDS”, a play on their “Let’s Talk About Sex”, in which they
warned their audience about the ways a person can get HIV, and how to be smart
about it. Watching the video now, you might be momentarily distracted by
the colorful windbreakers and mom jeans (but remember, it was the 90’s and
everyone dressed like that). Once you’ve gotten over the strange outfits,
you’ll hear the lyrics that were intended to open people’s minds. First,
you’ll learn that AIDS “is not a black, white, or gay disease,” and “the
earlier, the sooner detected, the better off.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The artists in Salt-N-</span><span style="color: black;">Pepa</span><span style="color: black;"> are hip-hop pioneers, and at the time, they were at the
top of their game. The founders of </span><span style="color: black;">Lifebeat</span><span style="color: black;"> knew how much influence a band like that can have on
its fans. When Salt-N-</span><span style="color: black;">Pepa</span><span style="color: black;"> told their audience to “protect yourself or don’t have
sex anymore,” people listened because the message was coming from a source that
they admired. To our generation of youth today, this type of rap may seem
a bit outdated but it’s essential to understand that in 1992 this openness
about AIDS transmission was pretty unprecedented.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The article “Aids-the Grim Reaper Of Rock”, published in
the Chicago Tribune in February 1992, focused on the death of Queen lead singer
Freddie Mercury. It claimed that many people in the music industry were
HIV positive, but did not talk about it for fear of discrimination. Bob </span><span style="color: black;">Caviano</span><span style="color: black;">, founder of </span><span style="color: black;">Lifebeat</span><span style="color: black;">, was one of these
music industry people struggling with AIDS, and he was not about to let his own
struggles go unsung. He wrote in a 1992 Billboard Magazine article,
“Music People With AIDS Need Help,” that it was time that music makers stood up
to get the word out. And slowly,
they did. </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">“Rent,” the rock opera/musical about a group of friends
living with HIV/AIDS and in various premiered in 1994, and all at once,
Broadway was involved in the music frenzy surrounding AIDS. The trend that </span><span style="color: black;">Caviano</span><span style="color: black;"> and </span><span style="color: black;">Lifebeat</span><span style="color: black;"> started—to connect
with the high-risk (young) population through popular music—has just begun to
catch on in Africa, where AIDS is devastating whole communities. The Tanzanian government started a
program in 2004 called “</span><span style="color: black;">Ishi</span><span style="color: black;">” which means “live”
in Swahili that produced a rap music video about safe sex, condoms, and
abstinence. The Democratic Republic of the Congo followed suit in 2011
when popular artists got together to rap and sing about how to protect yourself
from contracting HIV.</span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">
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With the
recent disclosure of rap collective OFWGKTA’s sole singer Frank Ocean (an
admitted bi-sexual), the conversations have just begun about sexual identity in
hip-hop. In response to Frank Ocean’s disclosure, TMZ solicited a
response from VH1’s “Love and Hip Hop Atlanta” star and rapper Lil Scrappy who
stated he was glad Frank Ocean came out because, according to Scrappy, “gay is
a doorway to AIDS.” This is simply
not true. Although certain
segments of the population are higher in the number of HIV infections, the
gender that you are attracted to does not determine whether or not you will
contract HIV. HIV/AIDS is a
disease that lives in your blood and transmitted by bodily fluids; being gay,
bisexual, or straight does not change your vulnerability to the disease.
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<span style="font-size: small;">The TMZ host went on to talk about the
closeted nature of the hip-hop world, saying that artists feared being shunned
if they came out. Lil Scrappy did
say that he was glad that Frank Ocean came out, but his <i>reasons</i> for encouraging openness about sexual orientation were just
wrong. Disclosing sexual orientation
does not magically protect a person from getting or transmitting AIDS any more
than being closeted. Nor does it
mean that someone will automatically contract HIV. Because rap artists are so influential, we need them to start
talking about AIDS in a more educated way. Artists, along with fans, need more HIV education. The fact remains that we need to start
talking about AIDS in the music world in general. HIV education must take place at all levels, even in the music industry, lest it continue to suffer in silence. This silence, to impressionable fans, could mean the difference between life and death. Twenty-years later, it might be time for a mainstream, chart-topping artist to make another anthem.</span></div>
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the organization goes on tour with famous artists, and brings awareness to
communities that are at high risk of having unprotected sex; young people in
New York City. Though Bob Caviano died of AIDS in September of 1992, his
organization remains strong. Today, Lifebeat also supports a program
called “Hearts & Voices” that brings music and performers to people living
in AIDS facilities in the New York area. “Hearts & Voices,” brings
joy and humanity to these communities, spreading the message that we haven’t
forgotten, and we’re still here.</span></div>
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with famous and successful performers, including artists who participate in
benefit concerts, and also artists who invite Lifebeat to go on tour with them,
spreading the word about protecting yourself across the nation. In the
past, Lifebeat performances have included Mary J. Blige, Pink, The Dave Mathews
Band, Wu Tang Clan, The Beastie Boys, Blink 182, Alicia Keys, Destiny’s Child,
Elton John, Idina Menzel, Maroon 5, Phoenix, Plain White T’s, Ke$ha, Busta
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The husband can barely
look his wife in the eye when she accuses him of having unprotected sex with
other women. The husband steals
glances and shoots back denials, never quite looking her directly in the eye. The wife continues. She accuses him of infecting her with
HIV. The husband responds with the
accusation that it might have been her ex-boyfriend that gave it to her, and
she in turn, gave it to him. A
typical argument between husband and wife, except that the husband has three
wives and this conversation was captured by a documentary crew in a rural
village in modern day Zambia, Africa.
This scene in the film <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“The
Carrier”,</b> a must-see feature length documentary film by first-time director
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maggie Betts</b>, serves as a gap closer
between the HIV epidemic among African Americans in the U.S. and our distant
“cousins” on the continent. As I
watched the film, I could not help but feel connected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">“The Carrier” was
the first feature film shown at the debut of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">GET DOWN and Maysles Cinema’s No More Stigma Film Series</b> on
Thursday, June 21<sup>st</sup>. The evening opened with a sneak preview super trailer
from another first-time director <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mike
Brown</b>. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“25 To Life”</b> chronicles the aftermath of former Howard University
student William Brawner’s stunning announcement that he was HIV positive. The forthcoming feature
documentary captured the reaction of William’s close friends, former Howard
classmates, and family to his public disclosure on commercial radio. According to the film, William’s mother
instructed him at age two to never disclose this HIV status. It was this, states William, that
caused him to suppress this secret so deep down inside, that as a sexually
active young adult, he was promiscuous and had unprotected sex. The feature film will chronicle
William’s redemptive journey to find past lovers and make amends with those his
decisions have impacted, including his protective mother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">According to “25 To
Life” producer <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Leah Thompson</b>, the
film includes interviews with his mother, wife, and a few of those past lovers.
The full-length film has had a few
test screenings and according to director Brown “A number of people who have
seen the latest cut of "25 To Life" have said that the film will
be an explosive conversation starter around sex, STDs, relationships, and
beyond. To help us keep the
dialogue productive, we will enlist the support and assistance of experts
and organizations such as the Balm in Gilead, Black AIDS Institute, the CDC,
and the NAACP, to name a few.” “25 To Life” has received funding and
support from organizations such as the Ford Foundation, Sundance Documentary
Institute, and IDA.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Q&A Panel at the No More Stigma Film Series. From left: Adrian Guzman, Center For HIV Law & Policy, director Maggie Betts, producers Leah Thompson and Peelahr Moore, David Lopez, Harlem United and moderator De'Von Christopher, President &CEO Bleu Life Media.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A post-screening
Q&A, was moderated by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">De’Von Christopher</b>,
president and CEO of Bleu Life Media (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bleu</i>
Magazine), included the filmmakers along with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Adrian Guzman</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">of the Center
For HIV Law and Policy/TeenSENSE</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">David
Lopez of Harlem United.</b> The conversation became quite spirited around the
issue of criminalization of HIV, and whether someone who is HIV positive and
has unprotected sex without disclosing their status should be prosecuted as a
criminal. GET DOWN covered this
topic last year’s in the blog “Is It A Crime? A Look At HIV Criminalization in
the U.S.” Stopping by the event
was Maysles Institute Founder <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Albert
Maysles</b>, who felt strongly that the world needed to see these films and
that “The Carrier” is a film that deserves distribution. We’re with you Mr. Maysles. We’re with you.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">The No More Stigma Film Series will continue on
August 23<sup>rd</sup>, October 30<sup>th</sup> and December 1<sup>st</sup> for
World Aids Day 2012.</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> Doors are 6:30pm and the screening
starts at 7:30pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">To stay up to date
on the series, <span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% yellow;"></span> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FRIEND US</b> at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/getdownpsa">http://www.facebook.com/getdownpsa</a>
and join the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Maysles Cinema</b> mailing
list at <a href="http://www.mayslesinstitute.org/">www.mayslesinstitute.org</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">To support and find
out more about Maggie Bett’s “The Carrier”, go to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/thecarrierfilm">http://www.facebook.com/thecarrierfilm</a>
and visit their website here http://www.thecarrierfilm.com/.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Check out Mike
Brown’s “25 To Life” here <a href="https://www.facebook.com/25ToLifeFilm">https://www.facebook.com/25ToLifeFilm</a>
and join their mailing list here <a href="http://25tolifefilmsite.com/">http://25tolifefilmsite.com/</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">For more
information on the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No More Stigma Film
Series</b> and upcoming films, check out <a href="http://www.facebook.com/getdownpsa"><span style="color: windowtext;">www.facebook.com/getdownpsa</span></a>
and www.mayslesinstitute.org.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Fifty dollars for a pair of (RED) Chuck
Taylors, $30 for vintage denim jeans worn to perfect elasticity, $10 spent on a
red triple nylon cord ID bracelet with an engraving of an iconic red ribbon,
and the total portion spent going to AIDS/ HIV awareness makes it all
priceless. The fashion industry
has been a long time beacon of inspiration, hope, and bold change throughout
the world. Within the past decade
the fashion industry has used its power to start making a difference with a
cause – to spread awareness on the AIDS/ HIV epidemic. Organizations and campaigns such as the
popular <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">(RED) campaign</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Housing Works</b>, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Until There is a Cure</b>, and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Designers
Against AIDS</b> are a few that have taken a stand against the fight against
AIDS, one t-shirt and bracelet at a time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">“In America we ignore HIV/AIDS problem
and we need to erase the stigma and restart the conversation. By wearing our bracelets you’re saying
this still matters,” said <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Nora Hanna,
Executive Director of the Until There’s A Cure</b> organization. Until There is a Cure is a organization
that started in 1993 and was the first to use bracelets to raise awareness for
a cause. Through selling these
bracelets they have been able to fund research and education towards the cause
of finding a cure. Hanna said that
the organization was able to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“reinvest
22 million dollars back into the cause”, which is 85 percent of the total
proceeds.</b> “When you buys a
bracelet, what you're doing is making sure the next generation is born free of
HIV,” said Hanna.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Housing
Works,</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> another organization
dedicated to helping with the plight of the homeless and people diagnosed with
HIV/ AIDS, uses vintage fashion and furniture to help support those who have
been abandoned due to being infected with the virus. After 22 years in business they have created twelve spacious
and trendy thrift stores /coffee shops set up all around New York City; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">contributing 100 percent of their funds in
support for their community healthcare centers, providing homes for the
homeless, and job rehabilitation</b>.
With a wide selection of affordable yet trendy clothes, books, and
furniture; buying from this store is not just buying for a cause, but also
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">“Recycling is very much in vogue,
thrift is the ultimate recycle, your taking old pieces of furniture home and
giving it new life; and that's what we seek to do with people, we seek to bring
people back to life, by offering them our resources. So by buying our products,
your helping give people a second chance on life,” said <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">President and Co-founder of Housing Works Charles King</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">According to Kin, buying products from
the organization’s thrift stores and coffee shops, helps by keeping the
organizations many programs running.
Programs as in health home care, AIDS adult day health care, primary
care, mental health services, housing for people with chemical dependency, job
opportunities, and legal services.
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Housing Works was created in
response to his and the other founders role in the organization ACT UP.</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Being
apart of the ACT UP housing committee, they were concerned with the housing of
homeless diagnosed with HIV/ AIDS and the government's lack of involvement for
these people.</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">“W</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">e have found in the past, there is a sort of cynicism and lack
of knowledge among youth</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">, especially those that were not born yet or were too young when
AIDS first broke out. AIDS is
rarely talked about now and is seen as something that can be managed or even
scarier as something that is very distant to their existence,” said <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ninette Murk, founder and creative director
of Designers Against AIDS.</b> “To overcome these obstacles what we thought we
would do is present the message through things people are genuinely interested
in, so that is why we chose to marry fashion, celebrities and the safe sex
message. By receiving the message
through their idols and role models, instead of preaching and other doom-like
ways, we hope this message strikes a chord with them and stays with them”.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Designers
Against AIDS (DAA)</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">
is an international organization that specifically targets spreading awareness
of AIDS/ HIV to the youth of the world. DAA promotes awareness by using international
celebrity support and using designers to change the stigmas behind the
virus. The DAA collaborates with
many international designers, one of its most recent collaborations was with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">H&M’s Fashions Fight on AIDS. </b>H&M Fashion Fight on AIDS
collection uses tribal patterns and fun colors to appeal to a young audience,
and even more appealing is that 50% of proceeds of the collection goes to
organizations supporting the HIV/AIDS movement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">“Our core activities mostly revolve
around raising awareness among youth and educating volunteers from around the
world about how to make fun and effective campaigns to use back in their own
countries. This is big job and we work in diverse ways to keep the message
fresh and relevant, that is one of our signature traits,” said Murk.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">Safe
Sax co-founder Chris Wilkerson</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"> said his company supports not only HIV/AIDS awareness but
also an openness in discussion of all things usually quieted in society, which
is exemplified through the transparency of their fashionable bag designs. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Safe
Sax bags are transparent bags, coming in all types of designs, on of which
including bags with usable condoms lined on the sides.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">“The idea is really about being open,
and about what you have open and transparent for everyone to see,” said
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">One of the most popular campaigns is
(RED). (RED) partners with brands
such as Converse, Apple, and Starbucks to help spread awareness by giving part
of their (RED) products proceeds to HIV/AIDS relief organizations. According to the (RED) campaign’s
website, close to 190 million dollars was raised by the purchase of (RED)
products and was given to the Global Fund to help eliminate the virus in
countries like Ghana, Rwanda, and South Africa. It's important to see that people can make the biggest
difference in the smallest ways; simply by going out out and buying even a cup
of coffee from Starbucks can save a person's life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">For me
personally, I think that by going out and buying these products we can truly
make the world of a difference. Consider where you spend your $20 dollars before you purchase
the next pair of kicks, t-shirt or rubber bracelet. Even in doing so, that’s only the monetary contribution.
We as young people should
keep the conversation going, not ignore the subject, and understand why wear
these cloths, in order to make the ultimate fight for the cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.redcampaign.org/dev/">http://www.redcampaign.org/dev/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.housingworks.org/">http://www.housingworks.org/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://until.org/">http://until.org/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.designersagainstaids.com/">http://www.designersagainstaids.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.safesax.com/">http://www.safesax.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">--Kyle Sweet</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">GET DOWN Youth Blogger</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;">kylesweet2013@gmail.com</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>GET DOWN </b>understands that there is a need for more HIV, AIDS, and overall
sexual health awareness. Additionally, more education is required around gender
and sexual identity. Cultural
mores and spiritual beliefs, which are often reinforced at home and among
peers, are often a barrier to gender identity studies or acceptance of
alternative lifestyles outside of the home. Thirty years later, we still have to reinforce the fact
that HIV and AIDS does not discriminate.
It is not a “gay disease”.
Stigma is still a huge barrier to testing. The <b>NO MORE STIGMA
FILM SERIES </b>seeks to use the filmed medium to “edu-tain”, and encourage
dialogue around all things sexual identity and HIV/AIDS. The <b>NO MORE STIGMA FILM SERIES </b>will show conversation
worthy films followed by Q&A panels. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Kicking off Thursday, June 21st at the renown Maysles
Cinema in Harlem, NY, the <b>NO MORE STIGMA FILM
SERIES </b>will highlight an excerpt from <b>"25 To Life"</b>, the
buzz-worthy documentary by <b>Mike Brown</b> about <b>William
Brawner, a young man who kept his HIV status a secret for over twenty-five
years</b>, since he was two years old.
Now he seeks redemption from his promiscuous past, and embarks on a new
phase of life with his wife who is HIV negative. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Immediately following,
the critically acclaimed feature length documentary <b>"The Carrier"</b> by
<b>Maggie Betts</b>. When 28-year-old Mutinta Mweemba first
shares all the hopes and dreams she once nurtured as a child, her aspirations
seem no different from those of many other young women around the world. She dreams
of meeting and falling in love with a handsome man, being married and raising
children and hopefully one day providing those children with a better life than
her own. But Mutinta's dreams were
never realized. Her soft-spoken husband came with two other wives, and the
remote Zambian village that she calls home is being ravaged by a deadly new
epidemic -- a mysterious disease called AIDS. Set against the backdrop of today's most urgent plague,
Maggie Betts's <b>"The Carrier" is a stunning portrait of both a family and a
community, caught in a desperate struggle to emancipate their next generation
from AIDS.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The <b>NO MORE STIGMA
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<span style="font-size: small;">The AIDS Walk took place in New York on Sunday May 20, 2012. While every
participant walked for a different reason, they all walked for the same
cause, which was support the fight against AIDS and HIV. Check out the video I shot during Aids Walk NY 2012 "Stories From The Walk". Hope to see you on the walk in 2013!</span></div>
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