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Let the Record Show

Sarah Schulman

How did ACT UP turn anger about AIDS into effective political action, and what can activists learn from it?

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Author
Sarah Schulman

Why read it

  • You will see how people with different access and power choose different ways to fight for change
  • You will learn how working inside institutions and protesting outside can reinforce each other
  • You will learn how to pick a target that a protest can actually move

Who it is for

  • Organizers building a campaign with little power
  • Advocates for patients or any group left out of decisions
  • Readers who want the real history behind a famous movement

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. THE ACT UP ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
  3. UNITED IN ANGER: A HISTORY OF ACT UP
  4. WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO ASK THE QUESTIONS
  5. HOW TO READ THIS BOOK
  6. BOOK ONE
  7. POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS
  8. PART I
  9. Change and Power
  10. Introduction: How Change Is Made
  11. FACING THE PAIN
  12. WHO MAKES CHANGE?
  13. THE DIVERSE INFLUENCES ON AIDS ACTIVIST POLITICS
  14. THE INTERSECTION OF RACISM AND HOMOPHOBIA DISTORTED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF AIDS FROM THE BEGINNING
  15. ACT UP AS A FEMINIST MOVEMENT
  16. GAY MEN, HOMOPHOBIA, AND SEXISM
  17. KEY STRATEGIES THAT ARE USEFUL TO ACTIVISTS TODAY
  18. HOW A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE MALE ORGANIZATION WON THE MOVEMENT’S SINGLE GREATEST VICTORY FOR WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOR, AND POOR PEOPLE
  19. Mechanisms of Power: Puerto Ricans in ACT UP
  20. ACT UP PUERTO RICO
  21. WHO IS ACT UP?
  22. The First Treatment Activists
  23. PLACEBOS AND CONSENT
  24. THE BIRTH OF THE INSIDE/OUTSIDE STRATEGY
  25. PART II
  26. The Dynamics of Effective Action
  27. Choosing the Right Target: Seize Control of the FDA
  28. STRATEGIZING INTERNALLY FOR THE FDA ACTION
  29. MEDIA FOR A MOVEMENT
  30. THE PURPOSE OF A DEMONSTRATION
  31. THE INSIDE/OUTSIDE STRATEGY
  32. THE DENVER PRINCIPLES
  33. Collective Leadership: Stop the Church
  34. BRINGING REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS FEMINISM TO ACT UP
  35. THE ACTION INSIDE THE CATHEDRAL
  36. AFTERMATH
  37. TRANS WOMEN AT STOP THE CHURCH
  38. PART III
  39. Paths of Leadership
  40. Inspiration and Influence: Larry Kramer, Maxine Wolfe, Mark Harrington
  41. ORGANIZE THE UNORGANIZED
  42. CONFRONTING THE CHURCH
  43. DIRECT ACTION
  44. CONVERGING POLITICS BEFORE ACT UP
  45. NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL
  46. MOVING BEYOND AZT
  47. WHAT IS A LEADER?
  48. Treatment and Data #2: Citizen Scientists
  49. TREATMENTS AND THE NEW YORK TIMES
  50. ANATOMY OF AN ACTION: BURROUGHS WELLCOME
  51. INSIDE/OUTSIDE
  52. ZAP AT THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
  53. INSIDE/OUTSIDE
  54. COUNTDOWN EIGHTEEN MONTHS
  55. RETROSPECT ON FDA
  56. LONG-TERM NONPROGRESSORS
  57. Changing the Definition: Women Don’t Get AIDS, We Just Die from It
  58. KATRINA HASLIP AND THE FOUNDING OF ACE AND ACE-OUT
  59. SOLIDARITY WITH CONVERGING EPIDEMICS
  60. MORE TENSIONS WITH T&D

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