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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 2, 2010 at 9:15 pm
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November at Housing Works Bookstore: Jeffrey Lewis, Suzanne Vega, Julie Powell, Spelling and Zines!
Tonight! Learn about comics, photography, and design with Kickstarter. Tomorrow! The Lowbrow Reader hosts comedy and music including Jeffrey Lewis and Hess Is More. Friday! Relive or redeem your grade school humiliations, but with beer! Plus, there are still tickets for Suzanne Vega and Dawn Landes. Buy them here. Or come for sales, slams, mosques, music writing, foodie fun, zines and more, all month long.
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 8:58 pm
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When Is the “Right Time” to Fight AIDS?
POZ editor-in-chief Regan Hofmann reprimanded AIDS activists yesterday for choosing the weekend before an election to launch an Obama protest. But Housing Works CEO and President Charles King strongly disagrees—and thinks it’s critical to explain why.
I greatly admire the work done at POZ, and in particular the high-profile efforts of my friend Regan Hofmann in the fight against AIDS. When I read her recent blog harshly criticizing activists (myself included), who protest at supposedly inopportune political times, I felt obligated to respond. Regan, you asked your readers what they think. Here it is:
With all due respect, I disagree with you on three fronts.
First, I disagree that the Democrats are our allies, and that …
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 7:31 pm
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Harsh Words for Architect of Obama’s Global Health Policy
This week AIDS activists are mired in debate about whether the election season is the “proper” time to criticize President Obama’s global AIDS strategy. In the midst of it all, activist Gregg Gonsalves has written a powerful essay criticizing Zeke Emanuel, the chief architect of the president’s global health policy.
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel has had a long career in bioethics, since 1997, as the chair of the Clinical Center Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health and before that as an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Currently, he is a special advisor to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the White House.
Sadly, Dr. Emanuel became the target of right-wing commentators …
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 3:48 pm
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Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities
FASHION FOR ACTION VOLUNTEERS
What: We need help preparing for our annual Fashion for Action benefit which is taking place on Thursday, November 18th, 2010
When: We need volunteers to help with the set-up for this amazing four-day designer sample sale event, as well as the event itself and its wrap-up.
Where: Our Chelsea Thrift Shop (143 West 17th St.) and The Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th St.)
Contact: If you are interested in attending our next info session on Nov. 4th @ 6:30pm , RSVP hereTHRIFT SHOPS WAREHOUSE WEEKEND VOLUNTEERS
What: We need help bar-coding, tagging and assisting our hard-working PDC staff at our thrift shops …
Posted on November 2, 2010 at 3:02 pm
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International AIDS Conference Won’t Move from D.C.; Committee Taps Immigration Lawyer
Two bits of news regarding who will—and won’t—be able to attend the International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. in 2012.
First, the IAC’s Conference Coordinating Committee confirmed last week that it will not move the event from Washington, D.C. This wasn’t a huge surprise: Few thought the committee would switch from such a high-profile locale. Still, it’s worthwhile to hear this commitment so strongly—there’s no going back now, despite the major challenges the committee faces around the inclusion of sex workers and drug users.
Second, the task force created by the committee to investigate potential barriers to entry for IAC 2012 has hired Bo Cooper, a D.C.-based immigration lawyer. Cooper will produce a document that lays out the legal …
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 8:06 pm
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As CHAMP Closes, a Look Back
When the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project closes its doors this winter it will leave behind a history of struggle, as well as some real accomplishments.
In its seven-year history, CHAMP’s small staff built a network of more than 12,000 AIDS activists committed to fighting HIV by addressing social injustices, including affordable housing deficiencies, mass imprisonment and marginalization of LGBTQ community members. In the end, the difficult economic climate, added to the usual challenges of running a small grassroots organization, forced the nonprofit to fold. Its official last day has yet to be set.
“We decided the very best way to further the work that creates change is to not also be running an independent organization,” said Julie Davids, the …
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 1:28 pm
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The Secret Life: A Portrait of a Sex Worker in Haiti
Port-au-Prince—When Shirley leaves her tent in the steep hills of Canapé Vert, she lies to preserve her dignity. She works the late-night shift at restaurant nearby, she tells her 14-year-old son, slipping through the door. Some nights, she doesn’t return until 5 a.m.
She takes a rickety tap-tap taxi over the spottily paved roads here, sometimes to wealthier Pétionville, other nights jumping out in the gritty working class neighborhood of Carrefour. Selling her last marketable commodity—her body—she might receive $25 U.S. from a client. She might also get arrested or abused. Or stabbed. Since the quake, competition among prostitutes has gotten fiercer. On occasion, the most vicious women wield razors to fend off the others.
Shirley, 38, wears a sprig of a ponytail and has …
Posted on October 28, 2010 at 3:57 pm
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