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Housing Works Bookstore Cafe News: Summer Sales, Stand Up, and Stories
It’s hot out there, but it’s cool in here! Make Housing Works Bookstore Cafe your summer spot. We have AC, free wifi, cheap wine and beer, great iced coffee and tea, delicious breakfast and lunch, and an enormous selection of brand new books and quirky antiques. Join us for comedy, music, or short stories, or just go crazy at our monthly 30% sale. Happy Summer!
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Underplayed in Vienna, New CDC Report Makes Crucial Link Between HIV and Poverty
Finally.
Advocates were thrilled last week to see the CDC release a report that proves what we’ve been saying all along: To combat HIV/AIDS in the U.S., we’ve got to tackle poverty.
“The leading public health agency in the U.S. is officially recognizing this link between poverty and HIV/AIDS,” said Sean Barry, executive director at the New York City AIDS Housing Network, which fights for housing opportunities for low-income people with HIV/AIDS.
“It’s saying: For us to concretely work on HIV, we must address things like homelessness and unstable housing, unequal access to health care, mass incarceration and disproportionate rates of unemployment.”
According to the report, 2.1 percent of heterosexuals living in high-poverty urban areas in the U.S. are infected with HIV. That …
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Hundreds Gather to Criticize Gov. Paterson’s Vetoes; AIDS Services To Lose Critical Funds
Hundreds of advocates for the poor and chronically ill gathered at press conferences in Westchester, Albany and New York City yesterday to urge Gov. David Paterson and the state legislature to rescind some of the $193 million in human services funding vetoed this month.
Included in the governor’s vetoes are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars designated for HIV/AIDS programs run by nonprofit organizations in the state.
The exact dollar amount is difficult to estimate—some nonprofits do not specify that funding will be used for HIV/AIDS care and prevention—but AIDS service and prevention organizations are sure to feel the burn.
(A full list of vetoed items is here)
The AIDS Service Center NYC stands to lose more than $20,000 …
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Team Housing Works
Team Housing Works is looking for new members to run with us and raise money to fight AIDS and homelessness via participation in upcoming races.
Various members of Team Housing Works ran in the May 22, 2010 Brooklyn Half-Marathon to raise money for Housing Works’ recent trip to the XVIII International AIDS Conference, July 18-23, 2010 in Vienna, Austria, where the Housing Works contingent demanded housing for homeless people living with HIV/AIDS the world over.
We are currently exploring our options for participation in other upcoming races in 2010 and 2011 – more updates coming soon!
Benefits:
- Group training runs and individualized support
- Online discounts at Running Warehouse
- Online fundraising tools, like Firstgiving
- Fundraising support
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