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Click for video! | Sadly, 30 years after its discovery, HIV/AIDS is still having a devastating effect around the globe. Approximately 34 million people worldwide, including more than 1 million Americans, are living with this deadly disease.
The disease continues to spread...with more than 7,000 men, women and children becoming newly infected with HIV each and every day. Although there are drugs to combat the disease, there is still no cure.
Without adequate research funding, this deadly disease will continue to claim lives for years to come. That's why a cure is so necessary, but for that to happen, research on HIV/AIDS needs to be a top priority with consistent and increasing levels of funding.
We've all lived with the disease for 30 years now. Isn't it time we made it history? »
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ThePetitionSite | On World AIDS Day, December 1, We the People; Commemorate those we have lost, as well as All those Infected and/or AFFECTED! 'World AIDS Day @ The World PEACE Bell' & the National HIV/AIDS Awareness Month AIDS Quilt Display is set for the 1st weekend of December! |  |
From: Worley Rodehaver
To: Michael Connett
Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 4:26 PM
Subject: AIDS Day
I would like to do a story in GLBT News about the AIDS Day event at the Peace Bell. I have checked your Facebook and cannot find a time anywhere.
What I need:
Time: Depends on Who & What; Ceremony is scheduled to start @ 6:00 pm (To catch end of Local into National Media Window)
Names of any speakers: The list is long; but I'm preoccupied with nailing down a Display Location for The QUILT! Put the Buzzz out Friday afternoon; but have several suggestions and ideas in the works...
Parking: Local lots, etc; will follow up...
Info on Quilt:
AIDS Memorial Quilt: Fifty days to World AIDS Day -- December 1, 2011. Why not open your doors to a display of The Quilt? Already on board to host: The William J. Clinton Library, University of Colorado, Texas A & M, Emory University, Breaking Boundaries, Harvard University, Edward R. Murrow High School, SUNY Medical Center and many
Are you the sponsor and do you have help?
Be specific, I don't have much space and I don't have time to dig through much material.
The Presenting Sponsors are MWCLTonline.org-SouthBankHIVe.com-ideaZone Marketing, LLC
aidsquilt.org At The NAMES Project Foundation we are always working to ensure public accessibilty to both The AIDS Memorial Quilt and to the individual stories of the men, women and children we have lost to this epidemic.
I've been thinking about this since I first saw last year's "Cleveland Clip" and been researching how we can equal or better a Metropolitan Response in this the 30th Year; and it is the Ultimate in a "Teachable Movement". So yes; we can always use more GrassRoots Help! If the Local AIDS & LGBT Bureaucracies want to share their 2 cents worth for the Cause, we welcome them as well.
EVERYDAY IS WORLD HIV DAY
Living With HIV IS Not Dying of AIDS; Unfortunately, we have "AIDS fatigue" among younger people & those who have no memory of the worst phase of the HIV epidemic in the 1980s and early 1990s, as well as condom fatigue among those who have grown tired and disillusioned with the... unrelenting and sometimes unrealistic safer sex message.
Over the years, World AIDS Day has become a global phenomenon that has prompted massive media coverage, raised awareness, encouraged people to get involved and amplified the voices of those living with HIV. But how we can get people to care about HIV/AIDS after Dec. 1?
Many people living with HIV in America today face a unique set of structural and lifestyle challenges, including, but not limited to: poverty, hunger, under- or unemployment, illiteracy, racism, discrimination, immigration issues, homelessness, stigma, previous or current incarceration, sexual or domestic violence, homophobia, substance use, criminalization, addiction, and childcare and mental health issues. Much of what we have learned about fighting HIV has to be reconsidered in light of who is contracting the virus today and why.
Turn the Holidays a Complimentary RED & WEAR the RIBBON!
Thanks,
Worley
MAPublications
Dear MoveOn member,
Did you know that there's an election in Covington next Tuesday, November 8? If you didn't, you're not alone. Off-year local elections are often decided by just a few hundred or even dozen votes. And when you combine this with the tea party's focus on state and local elections, every vote really does count.
That's why we're working on new ways to get MoveOn members to the polls—and one of them is sending a text message reminder to vote on Election Day. It's part of a new project we've just launched, MoveOn Mobile, to send urgent updates, events, breaking news, and election reminders via text message.
This is a low-volume, high-impact network. You'll only get two or three texts a month, when important news demands quick action.
Thanks for all you do.
—Kat, Tate, Elena, Eli, and the rest of the team
PAID FOR BY MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION, http://pol.moveon.org/. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. This email was sent to Michael Connett on November 4, 2011.
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 4:25 PM
Subject: Fw: Stop the Bullying
Tuesday Greetings Y'All! Will be interesting to see if The Commissioners have their Yoda on this evening...
Agenda #7 CDBG GUIDELINES:
An Order/Resolution approving the Adoption of Guidelines for the following Community Development Block Grant Programs: Upper Floor Residential Rehabilitation Program, Business Rent Subsidy Program and Small Business Micro Loan Program!
Ya know, SlumLords are like Politicians in that they think and count on the belief that the Poor are not aware of the issues and their rights and don't vote and then get away with treating them with little to no respect and much Inequality...
It's Time to stop the "War on The Poor" as well as Landlord Bullying!
THANK YOU FROM THE RIVER CITY NEWS
Since it is now November, I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you readers for making October such a huge month for this news outlet. Since launching in June, our numbers have doubled each month. Except in October. They quadrupled! 4 times as many people got their Covington news from us in October compared to August/September which had double the numbers from July which had double the numbers from June. Thank you for your trust, your feedback, and your continued readership in this new experiment of local journalism. –Michael
NEW MAYOR'S FIRST MEETING AGENDA SET
by Michael Monks
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Mayor Chuck Scheper takes
oath of office |
A unified stance against school bullies, an order for road salt, the hiring of an interim Arts District manager, and the sale of a city-owned property for $500 are among the highlights of Tuesday's Covington City Commission meeting, the first official meeting presided over by newly named Mayor Chuck Scheper.
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A Resolution Against Bullying
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Candlelight vigil for Sam
Denham, 13 |
The Commissioners indicated just days after a student at Woodland Middle School committed suicide following torment at the hands of bullies online and at school, that they would move to adopt a unified resolution urging the state legislature to pass anti-bullying legislation. The death of Sam Denham, 13, led to two public vigils and emotional support from the commission against bullying.
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Michael Wallace Connett
"We need leaders everywhere to demonstrate that speaking up about HIV (which may result in) AIDS is a point of pride, not a source of shame. There must be no more sticking heads in the sand, no more embarrassment, no more hiding behind a veil of apathy. Leadership means respecting and upholding the human rights of all who are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS…" UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan 2004 International AIDS Conference Opening Address
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:34 PM
Subject: Stop the Bullying
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Dear GLSEN Supporter,
This month marks my 10th anniversary at GLSEN. And while every day I've worked here has been a privilege, a terrible few have felt like anything but.
I'm thinking of those days when I and my colleagues at GLSEN have been caught in the crosshairs of the culture wars. When I have been personally attacked by opportunistic members of the anti-LGBT noise machine; called everything from a radical social terrorist with young Lawrence King's blood on her hands, to an arrogant busybody who cares less about educating children than about exploiting them to advance a self-serving agenda.
Those attacks infuriate me. And they also bring out some of my worst impulses -- to lash right back, or let my anger get the best of me.
But after taking a deep breath, I know the best way to respond to even the most vicious attacks is to reaffirm my values in the most meaningful way possible. When I'm feeling my worst, I take solace in the fact that what we're doing WORKS, and that we are making a difference, day by day, step by step, school by school.
So here's how I'm celebrating my 10 years at GLSEN: by purchasing and delivering 50 of GLSEN's powerful Safe Space Kits to schools and districts that desperately need them -- the local classrooms and hallways of anti-LGBT extremists like Focus on the Family's James Dobson and Candi Cushman as well as Mission America's Linda Harvey -- who have personally attacked me and our work.
The kind of rhetoric leveled at me and at GLSEN by Dobson, Cushman and Harvey is exactly what makes LGBT students feel like second-class citizens. Safe Space Kits, and the visible faculty support they lead to, are a powerful way to change the terrible climate that they promote. Making a positive difference in a beleaguered student's life may well be the best revenge against those peddlers of division and disrespect.
Will you join me? Will you convert your own anger, pain and outrage at the vicious, irresponsible speech of anti-LGBT extremists into a positive expression of your values?
A contribution of just $20 will give one more school the tools educators need to help LGBT students stand up to anti-LGBT bullying and harassment. You can pick the schools yourself, or allow GLSEN to send them to the ones that need them most.
I can't think of a better way to mark my 10th anniversary at GLSEN, or a more important request to make of a loyal supporter like you.
Sincerely,
Eliza Byard
Executive Director
P.S. If you like, you can direct your Safe Space Kits to a local school, your own alma mater, or that of the anti-equality crusader of your choice, as I did. We'll do our very best to honor your request! Thanks so much for your support.
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