The flipside of that is the response to the AIDS crisis. If it hadn't been for activists from groups like ACT-UP and Queer Nation screaming, shouting and making

The flipside of that is the response to the AIDS crisis. If it hadn't been for activists from groups like ACT-UP and Queer Nation screaming, shouting and making a big stink about the need for a response from the FDA, the federal government more generally, and the pharmaceutical industry, there'd be a whole lot of people who wouldn't be alive today. http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/27/how-to-survive-a-plague-qa-with-act-ups-peter-staley-on-effective-activism/ http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/27/how-to-survive-a-plagu... https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/ray-filar/silence-death-sarah-schulman-on-act-up-forgotten-resistance-to-aids-crisis https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/ray-filar/silen...