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World AIDS Day Action Alert: Zap Bloomberg with Email, Twitter, Phone Calls
This World AIDS Day, help us set Bloomberg’s misguided AIDS policies straight!
Every December Bloomberg commits to fighting AIDS at his World AIDS Day Bagel Breakfast. But every January, he proposes a budget with devastating cuts to services such as HIV prevention and AIDS housing and nutrition programs. This year, Bloomberg also convinced Gov. Paterson to veto the “30 Percent Rent Cap” bill that would have provided housing security for 10,000 poor New Yorkers with AIDS.
TAKE ACTION!
1) EMAIL Send Bloomberg an email using our message tool below!
2) TWITTER Click the tweet button below to tell @mikebloomberg “Hey @mikebloomberg I stand with the World AIDS Day #BagelBoycott. Support the 30% rent cap & don’t cut AIDS services! ”
Posted on November 26, 2010 at 6:51 pm
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NYC: 24-hour World AIDS Day Memorial Vigil
For the 16th year, Housing Works staff, clients and volunteers will brave the darkness and the cold to spend 24 hours in City Hall Park, where we will read the names of friends and loved ones lost in the fight to end AIDS.
To participate: Come to the park any time between 12:01 AM and midnight on Wednesday, Dec. 1. Sign in, and let the staff know you would like to read.
To submit names: Bring your list, as well as an additional copy of that list, which we will save and incorporate into next year’s reading.
Location: Southern end of City Hall Park (intersection of Broadway and Park Row)
Read: About Fatima Bey, a Housing Works client and one of …
Posted on November 23, 2010 at 8:19 pm
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NYC: World AIDS Day Bloomberg Bagel Breakfast Boycott
Angry that Bloomberg KEEPS cutting services for New Yorkers with HIV/AIDS?
Join us!
Dozens of outraged bagels plan to boycott Mayor Bloomberg’s annual World AIDS Day Bagel Breakfast. They will picket outside the breakfast, which takes place Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 AM at the Brooklyn Public Library on Grand Army Plaza.
The baked goods are angry that for the last three years the mayor has hosted a bagel breakfast where he professes his commitment to combating New York City’s AIDS epidemic—and a month later proposes a budget that would devastate services for low-income New Yorkers with AIDS, especially AIDS housing services.
The bagels are calling their boycott a “schmear” campaign.
“Mayor Bloomberg is like Marie Antoinette. …
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 11:34 pm
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DC: Rally for AIDS Housing at Freedom Plaza
The volunteer network D.C. Fights Back is organizing a World AIDS Day protest at Freedom Plaza, where dozens of activists will rally to demand that the city better serve its homeless HIV-positive community.
There are now nearly 1,000 D.C. residents living with HIV/AIDS who are waiting for affordable housing; and the waiting list for that housing has more than doubled in the past two years. At the same time, despite appallingly high HIV-infection rates, city government officials have not said how they will work to accomplish infection rate reduction goals established in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy.
In 2012, thousands of people from around the world will descend on Washington, D.C. for the International AIDS Conference, expecting to …
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 9:07 pm
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Worldwide: Campaign Keeps the Light On Human Rights
For a few seconds on World AIDS Day, cities around the globe will dim the lights on key landmarks to remember the toll AIDS has taken on the world.
Participants in the Light for Rights campaign will then flash the lights back on to symbolize the continued need to shine a spotlight on HIV/AIDS.
In New York, lights will go out beneath the Washington Square Park Arch, on the Brooklyn Bridge, at the New York Stock Exchange, inside Madison Square Garden, in 40 Broadway theaters, and at Carnegie Hall, the Museum of Modern Art, the Beacon Theatre, Radio City Music Hall, and the Apollo.
To participate: Light for Rights events are happening around the world— check here to find …
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 1:40 pm
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On Transgender Remembrance Day, Seeking an End to the Violence
Saturday is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance—but even in New York City it will pass with little fanfare, because for most people, the transgender experience continues to be one shrouded in mystery.
On Friday afternoon, Housing Works will hold a vigil at its East New York Health Center in Brooklyn, where staff and clients will light candles to commemorate transgender friends who’ve been targeted—and died—because of their status.
Deja Edwards, 34, will be among those at the vigil. She grew up in a conservative Texas community and spent high school as the closted gay kid. At 18, after much internal conflict, she announced to her mother that she wanted to live as a woman. “I tried being in the shadows, I tried being incognito,” …
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:56 pm
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Membership Looks Good On You!
Only Housing Works Members get benefits at Fashion for Action.
Support our services for low-income and homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS and get exclusive benefits!
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:41 am
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Members-Only Discount on Fashion for Action Tickets!
Housing Works Members get 25% off Fashion for Action 2010 general admission ticket purchases!
For questions or to purchase tickets by phone, please contact:
Lily Acunzo
membership@housingworks.org
347-473-7457Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:34 am
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