In a nutshell: This short interview with veteran AIDS activist Peter Staley is a good introduction to the Oscar-nominated documentary, How to Survive a Plague, and to the way Act Up invented a new kind of direct action that transformed civil disobedience and got people with AIDS a seat at the table with medical researchers, drug-company execs, and government officials.
How to change a culture (Act Up)
In a nutshell: This short interview with veteran AIDS activist Peter Staley is a good introduction to the Oscar-nominated documentary, How to Survive a Plague, and to the way Act Up invented a new kind of direct action that transformed civil disobedience and got people with AIDS a seat at the table with medical researchers, drug-company execs, and government officials.