Past Events:
World AIDS Day 12/1/10: Actions in various locations
Go to the World AIDS Day page
Boston 10/1 : Rally outside Obama Labor Secretary Solis's Speech at Harvard
Watch the video | Read the Harvard Crimson Coverage
NYC 9/22: Activists disrupt Obama fundraiser (posted on behalf of the activists)
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NYC 9/20: Activists from around the world as we march for universal access to AIDS treatment.
Read Press Release | View photos
Philly 9/20: March to a fundraiser with President Obama at the Convention Center to demand an end to waiting lists for people with AIDS.
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AIDS2010 Recap - 7/15-21
TakeANumber.org is just returning from the International AIDS Conference, where we joined with 200 organizations
from around the world to organize a massive thousand-person march to the opening ceremony. We carried with us a strong message that people with AIDS and allies will not sit silently by while governments break their promises to fund AIDS programs. We declared, in our signs, banners, chants and speeches, "Broken promises kill! No retreat. Fund AIDS." And governments - especially the US government - took notice.
Read more about where we're at | View photos | Read the media coverage
At the US Social Forum 6/20-22:
- Take action! Join a die-in to show the cost of Obama's broken promises, and remind everyone that we're all AIDS activists. It will be outside Cobo Hall plenary room at 9pm tonight. More information here.
- Join a workshop! We've got three great ones, all on Thursday. Learn about them here.
Chicago, IL 5/29- Emergency rally to demand that US keep promise to fund Global AIDS
Memorial Day is a time when many communities commemorate those lost in wartime. This weekend, President Obama will be in Chicago. So TakeANumber.org and our allies in Chicago are commemorating those we have lost to AIDS with a protest on Saturday May 29 - at Obama's house. We're doing this because we're out of options, and there's an emergency that's happening. We need to make sure Obama hears that treating AIDS is preventing AIDS, and his strategy of undermining HIV treatment will not end AIDS, won't benefit women, and overall will lead to the unnecessary death of millions.
Saturday, May 29th
5:30 PM at 57th and Greenwood (near Obama's house), Chicago, IL
Call Jennifer at 917 517 5202 or email jflynn@healthgap.org for more information. Free van leaves Humboldt Park at 5PM if you want a ride.
New York, NY 5/13- RALLY TO DEMAND FULL FUNDING TO FIGHT GLOBAL AIDS!
President Obama and his rich donors will dined on caviar and siped champagne at a $50,000-per-person fundraiser in NYC on May 13th. Outside the fundraiser, AIDS activists demonstrated to demand that he keep his promise to fund AIDS treatment around the world. Instead of increasing the number of people on treatment, like he promised, Obama is cutting funding for global AIDS, and people are being forced onto waiting lists for AIDS drugs. These people are sick, and without treatment, they will die. And the US promised them treatment!
View Photos from the action here
Sponsored by ACT UP Philadelphia, ACT UP/NY, Africa Action, African Services Committee, American Medical Students Association, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project, Health GAP, Housing Works, NYC AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN), Philadelphia Global AIDS Watchdogs, Proyecto Sol Filadelphia, VOCAL-NY Users’ Union and others.
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