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Action Alert: Sign Petition to Drop Syringe Exchange Ban (Again)
Our friends at Harm Reduction Coalition are pushing to end the ban on federal funding for syringe exchange programs for once and for all. We thought we’d gotten past the ban, but last December it was slipped into a spending bill at the 11th hour.
Speaker John Boehner (OH- R) and Chairman Hal Rogers (KY- R) are the two Members of Congress most responsible for reinstating the ban on the use of federal funds for syringe exchange. Please join us in letting them know we strongly object to their actions by signing on today, and please spread this alert. We will deliver them in person with as many signatures as possible by February 15!
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Posted on February 7, 2012 at 4:04 pm
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ADAP Watch: AIDS Drug Wait List Hits 4,575
As of February 2, the wait list to receive lifesaving AIDS medication through the nation’s AIDS Drug Assistance Programs had hit 4575 people across 12 states.
The number of people waiting to receive medication through state-run AIDS drug programs has increased more than 5,000 percent since August 2009, according to the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors. The federal government has reacted with little urgency, however, allotting just $25 million in additional dollars to the program for FY 2012.
To help readers keep tabs on the growing ADAP crisis, we are now …
Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:41 pm
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Bloomberg Budget: More Than Meets The Eye For AIDS Services
Although no new cuts were made to the city’s HIV/AIDS Services Administration (HASA) in today’s preliminary budget for the upcoming fiscal year, no news is not always good news.
Bloomberg’s budget proposal does not account for a significant number of cuts that have been made to HASA in the last few years – most notably, $5.1 million to supportive housing and $4.8 million to HRA clients’ brokers’ fees – which have not been base-lined into the budget proposal for FY13. These cuts are still on the table.
City Council restored all funding for supportive housing last year, which saved essential housing for some of HASA’s most vulnerable clients. But the constant onslaught of budget cuts to HASA’s programs have meant …
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:03 pm
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Next Thursday, Don’t Miss Love ‘N Leather Event at Chelsea
Our most popular leather sales event is back! Fall in love with leather goods for any fashion fetish. Stop by our flagship Chelsea shop for steals, deals, sweets and sweat. Pop a Brooklyn brew while a DJ spins live tunes. Take a seat in the barber chair for a fresh new do. Get your shoe shine on with our leather clad bootblacks!
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:22 pm
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AIDS 2012 Plenary Speakers Lack Women and People Living with HIV/AIDS
The theme of this year’s International AIDS Conference is Turning the Tide Together.
Apparently the planners of AIDS 2012 did not have women with HIV in mind, because none are presenting on the plenary sessions that were announced this week!
Grassroots AIDS activists across the globe were angered this week by the announcement of the plenary sessions, particularly groups representing/comprised of HIV-positive women of color. In addition, Phill Wilson of Black AIDS Institute is the only plenary speaker known to be living with HIV.
In response to the announcement, the U.S. Positive Women’s Network wrote a letter to the AIDS 2012 Conference Committee that dozens of organizations and activists have signed on to in support. They …
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 3:30 pm
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HASA Policies Get New Hearing Next Week
AIDS activists are celebrating a new hearing to demand answers to recent policy changes at HASA. The hearing, called by the NYC Council, will be held on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 1:00 p.m, in the Committee Room, 250 Broadway, New York, NY.
“HASA seems to change policies in the dead of night, without any accountability, said Kristin Goodwin, director of NYC policy and organizing with Housing Works. “We’re happy the City Council has called HASA to explain its decisions.”
Last year HASA announced it would no longer pay the full price for brokers’ fees for people seeking housing, and would only give landlords a “voucher” for security deposits. More recently, HASA was exposed …
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:53 pm
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Strong Volunteers Needed for Housing Works Thrifts
Our Housing Works Thrift Shop warehouse needs some strong volunteers to help with organizing and moving supplies. The details are as follows:
Date: Thursdays Only
Time: 9am-3pm
Number of Volunteers Needed: 2
Task and Requirements: Volunteers will assist our VP of Operations organize warehouse supplies, move/lift heavy items, and other physical tasks. Must be able to lift 30-50 pounds with assistance, must be comfortable working on ladders. Job will be dusty, please do not volunteer if you are allergic.If you would like to help, please email us at volunteer@housingworks.org
Don’t forget, Buy the Bag is still going strong so sign up to volunteer today!
If you have not done so already, please assist us by filling out this short survey: …
Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:01 pm
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February at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe: Grand Pianos, You’ve Got Mail, Foodies and Live From Home
Valentine’s week at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe has everything, for valentines romantic or platonic, musical or literary: the return of Safe Space with New Yorker critic and author of How Fiction Works James Wood with classical pianist Jeremy Denk, which means we will have a grand piano inside the bookstore, an event in itself; a “Love Hurts” edition of The Moth; an interactive (as in you get to make dial-up modem sounds and more) of You’ve Got Mail, the indie bookstore cult classic; a launch party for comedian Sara Benincasa’s memoir of Agorafabulous!-ness; and a Live From Home with Lost in the Trees, orchestral pop (think Southern Bon Iver). Also, we’re proud to be the new home of Adult Education, and you can now enjoy …
Posted on January 31, 2012 at 7:43 pm
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