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AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power

ACT-UP, or the Aids Coalition to Unleash Power, "is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis. We advise and inform. We demonstrate. WE ARE NOT SILENT" - from the ACT-UP/New York website.

ACT-UP was formed in March of 1987 at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York. Three weeks later they held their first protest on Wall Street. As of 2004 there are over 70 chapters worldwide and thousands of members. ACT-UP uses non-violent direct action and often civil disobedience to bring attention to the AIDS crisis.

They are well know for their provocative demonstrations and their famous slogan/logo: "Silence = Death" with an uninverted pink triangle.

In the early 1990s, activists from ACT-UP founded two other direct action gay rights groups, Queer Nation and Lesbian Avengers.

External Links

• ACT-UP New York
• ACT-UP San Francisco

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