“We need an ACT UP constantly and always. ACT UP at its peak of success had several hundred chapters all over the world, and it’s because of ACT UP that every single one of those AIDS treatments is out there. We hammered and protested and put our lives on the lines and stormed the NIH (National Institutes of Health) and broke into drug companies. And we taught ourselves everything there was to know about how the system worked, and we worked it. And that’s how those drugs are out there. And as soon as we got the drugs, ACT UP sort of folded its tent, and we really need the equivalent of something like that that’s on guard every single day against our enemies, and we don’t have that.”
–Activist legend Larry Kramer, Sept. 18.
By Rex Wockner
