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Untangling Health Care Reform in Time for ACTION!
by Katie Crisona
Mon, 06/29/2009 - 3:12pm
Katie Crisona, CHAMP Reproductive Rights Activist Service Corps Fellow supported by the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program at Hampshire College
All the media coverage of health care reform may be confusing but it’s certainly warranted: legislation is moving fast and the issue will affect each of us in some way. All of this health insurance jargon is being thrown around, and there are a ton of new acronyms and unfamiliar systems. Why is this all so complicated? Can’t we just take a page out of the Canadian handbook and have universal health care? I’ve really had to take some time to sit down and understand it. I’m going to break down what I’ve learned for all of us in the CHAMP Network, so you can effectively take action before final decisions are made in Washington in July. read more » Better Late Than Never: HIV Prevention Among Young Women & Girls - NEW REPORT from HIV Law Project
by Vanessa Brocato
Fri, 06/19/2009 - 11:12am
The report can be found at: Congratulations to Stephanie Morain, Alison Yager and the others at the Center for this helpful new analysis. Labor group takes on CVS over locked-up condoms - from the Nashville TN
by Mark H
Wed, 06/17/2009 - 12:57pm
http://dailyreports.kff.org/Daily-Reports/2009/June/17/HIV-061709-CVS2.aspx
In Search of Justice: Bail Granted for HIV+ Pregnant Woman
by Laura McTighe
Wed, 06/17/2009 - 8:17am
AIDS Walk NY 2009 - CHAMPified!
by Vanessa Brocato
Sun, 05/17/2009 - 2:19pm
CHAMP New York was up early today for AIDS Walk 2009! Although we were bright, the early morning was not- rain drizzled over Central Park as we searched for our community partner table. The balloons and the crowd were cheerful too. And we expanded our team by hundreds, who slapped on CHAMP stickers as they walked by, wearing our slogan: HIV is not just a disease- it's proof positive of injustice! If you are one of the dozens who picked up copies of the HIV Prevention Jusitce Principles, visit us at www.champnetwork.org to endorse the principles or for your organization to join the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA). The HIV PJA is hosting its next call on Wednesday, May 27 with guest speakers explaining the relationship between poverty and HIV. Thanks to CHAMP supporters, our team raised more than $5,000! With help like this from people in our network, we're able to sustain our independent work to build a community-based movement that links the fight for HIV/AIDS with human rights and social and economic justice. And thanks to Victor Bernhardtz, we have some great photos!
Viva La France: My Reflections of the "Summit of Self Help Networks" to the International Arena
by Waheedah S
Thu, 04/09/2009 - 11:29am
Recently I had the opportunity to represent
the U.S. Positive Women’s Network and CHAMP as I traveled to France to participate
in a strategy sharing summit of membership networks from all five continents.
The three day summit held in Roumbouillet (44 Kilometers from Paris),
was sponsored by the Paris-based Institute for Research and Debate on
Governance, IRG and the Ford Foundation. The
roll call spanned all five continents and assembled Ethnic Minorities,
Grassroots Women, HIV/AIDS and Urban Issues Networks.
Martin and Me
by Mark H
Fri, 03/20/2009 - 9:31am
As the roll-out of expensive and potentially controversial biomedical HIV prevention tools looms, I wonder whether we too will insist on being heard. Will we urge authorities to understand that in a crisis, a higher tolerance of risk is sometimes warranted? Will we demand early access, fast access, and expanded access for those who need it most? Acting Up in the 21st Century
by Diana Scholl
Thu, 03/12/2009 - 1:08pm During CHAMP's March community forum to create intergenerational dialogue within the AIDS movement around the ACT UP Oral History Projects, we watched an incredible video compilation of ACT UP protests from the early days of AIDS activism, put together by panelist and ACT UP Oral History Project co-creator Sarah Schulman. An opening scene showed people sitting in the very same room at the LGBT Center that we were sitting in. The room was hadn’t changed in 25 years. The crowd was even pretty similar-mostly white faces. The only difference was the most recent forum, while a good turnout for a 2009 event, didn't draw as much of a crowd as the standing-room only ACT UP meetings of yore. This sort-of déjà vu seemed a metaphor for AIDS activism today. Watching the video, I was struck how some of the slogans-"AIDS Budgets Kill!"-and chants-"Act Up, fight back!" can be found in many of the rallies I've attended over the last two years. As a young person new to the movement, it was incredible seeing the uncanny similarities that I hadn't fully grasped until I saw it firsthand. ACT UP Philadelphia member Pascal Emmer noticed the similarities too when he first became involved in queer activism. "Most of our works and rhetoric was borrowed from earlier movements, but it lacked a historical context,” Pascal said. Emmer and his friend Jessica Rodriguez joined ACT UP Philadelphia where they started the group's oral history project to highlight the stories of the movement and preserve them for memory so these stories aren't lost. read more » Silence is Killing Black Gays As Much as HIV
by Kenyon
Mon, 02/09/2009 - 10:48am From The Defenders Online (the blog of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund). …28 years into the AIDS epidemic, that silence that once protected us, is now killing us. As we near Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on February 7th, all sorts of pronouncements will be made about the devastation HIV/AIDS is having on the community. And though we are disproportionately impacted by the epidemic, concern for black men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women will not likely come from most quarters of the community. If black leadership is at all concerned with ending this epidemic, we’re going to have to acknowledge and overcome the homophobia that is driving it in the community. Read the entire op-ed here.CHAMP Activists Bring HIV Prevention Justice to the Heart of Creating Change
by Vanessa Brocato
Wed, 02/04/2009 - 2:46pm Like any good revival, Creating Change generated spirits on fire, weeping and dancing for AIDS activists and LGBTQ leaders across the generations. CHAMP facilitated eight sessions exploring the facts, fictions, politics and deeply rooted social causes of the epidemic in this country. And we took action then and there at the largest annual advocacy meeting of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people and allies from across the country held in Denver last week.Together we are working to address the ways that institutionalized fear and hatred of sexual diversity makes our communities more vulnerable to HIV by supporting and strengthening local community leadership, weaving national networks, and building the movement for HIV prevention justice to challenge this deep and persistent structural vulnerability. read more » |
About the PJMThe PJM was initiated by Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) in collaboration with ACT UP Philadelphia, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the Center for HIV Law and Policy, the Georgia Prevention Justice Alliance, the Harm Reduction Coalition, the National Women and AIDS Collective, the New York State Black Gay Network, and SisterLove. SearchTagsAbstinence-only
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