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FEATURE
World AIDS Day Activities
Billy Howard
Dispelling Myths: Two Views From the AIDS Epidemic
This benefit for the Heart Strings Foundation will feature the photographs from
"Epitaphs for the Living" by Billy Howard and "When AIDS Comes Home" by Michael
Schwarz. Admission is free, donations will be accepted and Howard's book will be on sale
with all proceeds going to Heart Strings.
Opening reception Saturday, Dec. 1, 5pm—8pm, exhibit continues at the Atlanta
Photography Gallery, 495 Peachtree. 881-8139.
Unity Rally and March
The Community ADDS Network of Atlanta is sponsoring a unity rally and march in
observance of World AIDS Day, December 1,1990. The event will unite all people
touched by AIDS—black and white, straight and gay, men and women, individuals and
families—in a message of solidarity to show that by working together we can quell the
transmission of HTV and provide care and treatment for persons living with AIDS.
Groups of people who work together to combat AIDS are encouraged to march togeth
er in the parade.
The UNITY RALLY will begin at 3pm on the steps of Morris Brown College (easily
accessible from the Vine City Marta Station).The MARCH from Morris Brown down
Martin Luther King Boulevard to Woodruff Park will begin at 3:30pm. At 4:45pm in
Woodruff Park, Rev. Joseph Lowrey will speak followed by a CANDLELIGHT CERE
MONY at which time, long time survivors of AIDS will share their personal experiences.
BYO candle, please.
For more information contact Kathleen Brockel at (404) 874-7926 or Carrie Jane
Singleton at (404) 881-9800, ext. 327.
"Women and AIDS” sponsored by SCLC/Women
Mrs. Evelyn G. Lowery, National Convenor and Councilman Bill Campbell will speak
at the beginning of a series of activities including: testimonies of PWAs and others;
unfolding of the National SCLC/W.O.M.E.N. R.A.C.E. project with participating church
es; a meditation and candlelight ceremony.
Saturday, December 1,12:00 Noon, Tabernacle Baptist Church, 475 Boulevard, N.E.,
Atlanta, GA. For more information, please call 404-522-1420 or 404-681-AIDS
Community AIDS Resource and Education Fair:
A Conference on Women and AIDS
Sponsored by the Sister-to-Sister Women and AIDS Network, a program of SIS-
TERLOVE: Women's AIDS Project, the day-long event includes a conference and a
health fair for HTV and AIDS-related services. C.A.R.E. Fair 1990 will focus on the
impact of AIDS on the lives of women. It has been organized to increase community
awareness and knowledge of HIV transmission, provide opportunities for women from all
sectors of the Atlanta community to come together for support and networking, and to
increase the level of local participation in volunteer services for women who are HIV posi
tive.
C.AR.E. Fair 1990 is open to the public will be held at Spelman College, Sat. Dec. 1,
9am—5:30 pm. While admission is free, donations will gladly be accepted. Lunch and
child care will be provided for conference participants. For more information call
872-0600.
Demonstration at the Centers for Disease Control
Why march to the Centers for Disease Control?
More than 13,000 women in the U.S. today have AIDS, at least 250 in the state of
Georgia. Of these, two-thirds are Black and Latina. HIV infection and AIDS are growing
faster among women than among men. Because there is no cure, treatment for AIDS is
directly related to studies and clinical drug trials. Of the thousands of studies done on
AIDS, fewer than one dozen focus on women.
The CDC is the U.S. government agency charged with articulating the definition of
AIDS that is used by insurance companies, Social Security, and many service agencies to
determine eligibility. If you have the symptoms defined by the CDC, you are considered
to have AIDS. If you don't, you don't. Major infections and symptoms of women with
AIDS are not within the CDC definition. As a result, large numbers of women are system
atically excluded from existing treatment and services.
Gather Monday, Dec 3 at 11:30 am at Kroger on N. Decatur Road near the Emory
Campus.
For more information, call ACT UP/ATLANTA (404) 286-6247.
MON. DEC. 3
Meet at Emory Kroger at
11:30 am, then march to
the CDC for a legal picket.
To join an affinity group
for Civil Disobedience,
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MON. PETRUS (Private Party)
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9 PM Tickets on sale at Brushstrokes.
by ACT
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NOV. 29 Boom Boom Palace
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9 PM
OUTRAGEOUS BALL
Dancing and Disco Interuptus at
Atlanta's Premier Warehouse 288
Mill St. NW (1 block off Marietta).
Tickets on sale at Brushstrokes.
DEC. 2
9 PM
WEEKENDS/
TUNNELVISION
Tasha Wallace & special guests:
Angela Motter, Train Black, Joyce
& Jacqui, Face of Concern;
688 Spring Street
Southern Voice/Noveniber 22, 1990
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