Plague! 40 million infected people is a fucking plague. And nobody acts as it is. As if it is.
Nobody here either. Nobody in this hospital. Nobody in this city. Nobody in this world.
40 million people is a fucking plague. I sit in here because we are the people who are living with this disease.
I have been living with this disease for 11 years. And throughout that entire 11 years of Reagan and Bush administrations,
we have seen nothing done. We do not see the funding that we need for treatment and for care for people with AIDS.
We are demanding from George Bush that he give us the resources that we need, that we get the money, that he provide the leadership,
that he take action to make sure that people with AIDS have the health care that they need, have the housing that they need,
that the research on the drug takes place and that people of color and women are included in drug testing and treatment.
That is not happening now. That is why we are here. And George Bush had the nerve to say that when we went to Kenny Bunkport
and demanded action from him that, well, I feel compassion for those unemployed people because they have families.
I want George Bush to know we have families too.
We need something about finding a cure now. There are too many people that are dying every day of this illness with a government
that has absolutely no interest in helping these people get better.
What is some reasons why you got involved in this group?
Very simply, I have a child who is sick and there is nothing worse than a parent having to look and see
at a sick child where he is getting no help whatsoever.
We are here to demand action. We are here to demand that President Bush institute a national plan to get this nation through the AIDS crisis.
At the moment, there is no plan. There is no organization. There is nothing.
We are here to demand not more money. We are here to demand leadership.
I have AIDS and the blood is to show that everyone is living with AIDS.
Barbara Bush is living with AIDS. Millie is living with AIDS. George is living with AIDS.
We are sick and tired. We don't really want to have to be here but we have no choice.
I am walking because I lost a nephew to AIDS last year.
I am also here because too many friends have died.
I am here because I am an ex-prisoner and I am also HIV infected and I learned that status while being confined.
Because I want adequate healthcare for prisoners that I left there and it shouldn't be a death sentence that they have HIV,
I don't want them harassed or isolated as a result of that.
I want education for them, peer education, which includes condom distribution and dental dam distribution.
I want Cuomo to acknowledge that he needs that there and to provide it for them because the prisoners themselves are taking the initiative to try to change things
and are being harassed and penalized as a result of that.
I want them to let out terminally ill individuals due to HIV because that's like double jeopardy and it becomes a death sentence for those individuals.
And if they pose no threat to society, let them out and let them die in dignity, in hospice or in community that they belong to.
And I want them to acknowledge that and to change that.
We are protesting the violations of human rights of sex workers around the world. We are protesting here at this Congress
because the organizers of this Congress have such a narrow range of human rights issues that are being addressed.
Human rights for sex workers are nowhere to be found on the program.
Sex workers are only seen as a source of the AIDS epidemic.
Sex money does not carry AIDS.
I think the time for passive action is over. I think the time for lobbying is over. I think the time for leather writing is over.
I think it's time to fill up the jails and get really angry and scare these people a little bit.
And maybe they'll do something then.
It gets to the point of you just don't have any other choices.
I mean they try everything else and nobody listens.
Maybe they'll listen to that. I don't know.
The government is forcing people into situations where they have nothing to lose.
And I'll tell you what, if I had AIDS and I was dying, I would do everything these people are doing
and maybe more if I could think of something else.
Let's go, let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go, let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
History will recall Reagan had pushed it nothing at all.
George Bush, you can't hide. We charge you with genocide.
Bringing the dead to your door.
Let's go!
Support the AIDS Care Project, the Bill in Congress, to find a cure for AIDS.
Act up, fight back, fight it.
Let's go!
6,500 died this year. Rudy, fight AIDS.
We say, fight back, we say, fight back.
We say, fight back.
We say, fight back, we say, fight back.
We say, fight back.
