November 21, 2006
WORLD AIDS DAY
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Housing Works is preparing for our 12th annual epic World AIDS Day Commemoration in New York City from midnight to midnight on Friday, December 1st, 2006. This year, like previous years, we will be gathering at City Hall Park for a 24-hour "Reading of the Names" Vigil, AIDS education and awareness events, counseling and testing throughout the day, and press conferences.
"Tell the World: We Can End the AIDS Epidemic with UNIVERSAL ACCESS to Prevention, Treatment, Care and Support."
The event takes place at the southern tip of City Hall Park at Broadway and Park Place. Take the N or R train to City Hall or the #4, 5, or 6 train to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall.
We invite you to join us for a World AIDS Day Commemoration that New Yorkers cannot ignore and will not easily forget. There are several ways your organization can be involved:
- Sponsor: We ask that organizations wishing to co-sponsor the event donate $100 to help defray the costs, commit people to read names for a block of time, and collect names to be read.
- Endorser: We are asking endorsers to cover a block of reading time and to gather names to be read.
We see the Vigil as an opportunity to unite many organizations and individuals who are fighting the twin epidemics of AIDS and apathy, but we encourage every participating organization to do an independent action as well.
If you or members of your organizations would like to participate by reading names, please call Derrick Chandler at 347-473-7441, and he will give you a block of time that can accommodate you and your organization's schedule.
Also, please feel free to send a typed or clearly printed list of names that you would like for us to read during the vigil by fax at 347-473-7465 or e-mail at chandler@housingworks.org.
To download the form to submit names for World AIDS Day Vigil click here.
ORGANIZE WHEREVER YOU ARE!
That's right- bring the AIDS movement to your town, university, street, or dining room table. From wherever you are, you can organize friends & family to tell our elected officials what we need to END AIDS NOW. Download The Kit.
In this kit are:
- Sample letter and call script with phone zap description
- Rally idea descriptions and tips on how to set up a successful rally
- Sample press materials and tips on getting good press coverage
- Fact sheets and supporting documents on the various issues
- Sample rally signs and stencils
- Info on Washington, DC rally on December 1st.
Want to call reporters and tell them about your plans? To build skills for working with the press, join the call on November 21st at 9pm ET at 1-800-505-4464, passcode 456048#.
DOWN IN DC?
No more empty promises!
We won't reach Universal Access to treatment by 2010 if we don't train and pay enough doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers in Africa (we need $8 billion from the US).
We won't cut the out-of-control HIV infections in Washington, DC if congress keeps blocking DC from funding needle exchange programs using our own money.
We won't get treatment to the 10 million people in need by 2010 if trade rules are set by drug companies instead of the people.
We won't meet any of our targets unless we fully fund the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria and really Drop the Debt for all impoverished countries.
Please join us! Help us organize! Get involved in the planning!
For more information email srenn@globaljusticenow.org or call 202.296.6727 x229
. Visit us on-line at www.fightglobalaids.org/action/dc2006.Sponsored by: Africa Action, DC Fights Back, Global AIDS Alliance, Jubilee USA, Student Global AIDS Campaign, University Coalitions for Global Health.