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Basic Info, Activism Guides

ACT UP Oral History Project Brings Activists' Words to Your Ears (Regularly Updated)
An online collection of more than two dozen (and growing) interviews with many of the people who were at the forefront of the original AIDS activist movement in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
From ACT UP Oral History Project
Guides to Starting and Running an HIV Organization (Regularly Updated)
This collection of manuals provide guidance on how to start a nonprofit, develop effective interventions, plan programs and become an HIV activist within a religious community.
From National Minority AIDS Council
Solidarity Workshop: How to Do Activist Teach-Ins at a Homeless Shelter (May/June 2008)
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In Solidarity Project, from Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Speaking Up (May 30, 2008)
Ryan White town halls hit NYC.
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
In Praise of AIDS Activists and Martin Delaney (May 9, 2008)
From Project Inform
Get Involved This Summer: Join the Youth Action Institute (March 14, 2008)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
Getting Things Done (November/December 2007)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
"Town Hall Meeting" on Ryan White CARE Act (November 8, 2007)
From The Body
Resources (November 2007)
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In Solidarity Project, from Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Solidarity Workshop: Understanding Oppression Across Communities (November 2007)
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In Solidarity Project, from Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
From Social Service to Social Change: Integrating Advocacy Into AIDS Service Organizations (April 3, 2007)
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From Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project
Advocacy Groups Charge Schering-Plough With Racial Discrimination for Excluding Blacks From Hepatitis C Trial (April 3, 2006)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Advocacy Basics: Meeting With Members of the U.S. Congress (November 2005)
Tips on how to arrange, prepare for and conduct meetings with your senator or representative.
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From AIDS Action Council
Tax Deductions for Volunteers (March/April 2004)
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
Treatment Activism and You! (December 2003)
An overview of steps you can take to have an impact on HIV treatment research.
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In WISE Words, from Project Inform
Getting Started in Federal Policy Advocacy (May 2002)
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In What's New, from Project Inform
Frequently Asked Questions and Responsible Responses (2002)
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From AIDS Action Council
Resources for Non-Governmental Organizations (September 18, 2001)
United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS.
From Health & Development Networks
How to Be a Player in Federal Decision-Making (September/October 2001)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Overview: Government and Activism (1998)
In The Encyclopedia of AIDS
A History of The People With AIDS Self-Empowerment Movement (December 1997)
In Body Positive, from Body Positive

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