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Team Housing Works
Housing Works is an official Charity Partner for the 2011 New York City Half-Marathon! If you are interested in gaining guaranteed entry to the race by running for Team Housing Works, please contact:
Dan Wilson
d.wilson@housingworks.org
347-473-7454Take the physical challenge and support Housing Works in the fight against AIDS and homelessness.
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:32 am
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Fashion for Action: Public Sale Days This Weekend!
Housing Works annual Fashion for Action sample sale is this weekend! Shop more than a million dollars worth of fashionable apparel and beauty merchandise from New York’s best brands & designers at charitable prices! Save 50 to 70% off Band of Outsiders, Brooks Brothers, Diane Von Furstenberg, Dolce & Gabbana, Jill Stuart, John Varvatos, Marc Jacobs and so much more!
For a full list of participating brands and tickets to shop first TONIGHT visit FashionforAction.com.
Posted on November 17, 2010 at 12:15 am
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Bagels Announce World AIDS Day “Schmear” Campaign Against Mayor Bloomberg
THIS EVENT WILL HAPPEN RAIN OR SHINE
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 at 7:30 AM, December 1, 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. His attitude to …
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:16 pm
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I’m Thankful for November at Housing Works Bookstore: Julie Powell, Bobby Long, and Blowout Sales.
Tonight, legendary food writer Julie Powell reads from Cleaving, a memoir of marriage, meat, and more, in a free event focusing on international cooking. Plus, tickets are already on sale to see British singer-songwriter Bobby Long in a rare New York appearance. Buy them here. Or just join us for Moth stories, music writers, and a Black Friday blowout that’ll knock out your gifting list in one shockingly affordable socially conscious go!
Posted on November 16, 2010 at 11:01 pm
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Security Team Blocks Homeless Activists from New York City Council Meeting
Is this democracy?
A group of grassroots homeless advocates from Picture the Homeless showed up for a City Council meeting Friday morning—only to find themselves banned from the open-to-the-public gathering. In response, the group has reached out to several lawyers, and is considering taking legal action.
Here’s how it went down: Six members of the human rights group arrived at 250 Broadway for a meeting of the Housing and Buildings Committee. Instead of being ushered in, they discovered that the security team had plastered their photos on the wall of a security cubicle, and that staffers were bustling around with printouts bearing the individual’s names and personal information.
“We were told that we were not permitted to attend the public meeting because we had …
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 6:08 pm
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China AIDS Solidarity Network Calls for Release of 23-year-old Activist
Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a group of activists at the China AIDS Solidarity Network are calling for the immediate release of Tian Xi, an AIDS activist detained in China since August for his ongoing efforts to petition officials to compensate him and tens of thousands of others infected with HIV through the contaminated national blood supply.
Untold numbers of Chinese were infected with HIV through blood transfusions in the 1990s. While many nations experienced similar outbreaks of HIV in the blood supply early in the epidemic, China is the only one that has refused to create a compensation program.
“Tian Xi … has shown a greater sense of responsibility for the Chinese blood …
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 1:30 pm
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Have a Problem with HASA? Send Us Your Concerns
Got a problem with the HIV/AIDS Services Administration?
Does your case manager never visit? Has the agency failed to pay your rent? Have your benefits been cut off without reason?
Tell us!
In October, Housing Works launched a campaign aimed at the HIV/AIDS Services Administration, demanding that the agency do a better job servings its clients. 45,000 New Yorkers depend on HASA for access to critical housing, nutrition and other benefits.
The great news is that HASA’s new Deputy Commissioner Jacqueline Dudley responded immediately by offering to meet with HASA clients to hear their grievances. That meeting will happen in December.
But before clients sit down for the face-to-face, we need to create a definitive …
Posted on November 15, 2010 at 1:05 pm
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Behind the STD Cell Phone Chip: Will It Detect HIV?
British scientists announced this week that they’re developing a cell phone chip that could test for sexually transmitted diseases, including herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhea.
If all goes according to plan, users will be able to drop urine or saliva on a microchip, insert the piece into their cell phones and receive a diagnosis in minutes. The new device could revolutionize testing for the above diseases, knocking down barriers to testing and helping to lower the UK’s startlingly high rates of STD infections among young people.
What the Guardian, the Daily News and the New York Observer haven’t reported, however, is that the device could also be used to diagnose HIV.
Testing for HIV via cell phone would raise …
Posted on November 10, 2010 at 11:53 pm
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