Folks With HIV: Your Peers Need You to Take This Survey About Criminalization thebody.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thebody.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sarah Schulman Discusses Her Massive ACT UP Tome ‘Let the Record Show,’ Coming This May
Book design by No Ideas; portrait by Drew Stevens
It’s fascinating to watch how traumatic and fraught events get historicized, isn’t it? Think the Holocaust. Think the Vietnam War. And think the U.S. 1980s and ’90s AIDS crisis and the furious activism that rose up to meet it. Only in the past decade have we started seeing major nonfiction works of film or publishing take on that seismic era (which, we should point out, is not over). First, we had David France’s Oscar-nominated 2012 documentary
AMY GOODMAN: Today, a
Democracy Now! special celebrating 25 years on the air. On February 19th, 1996, on the eve of the New Hampshire presidential primary,
Democracy Now! aired for the first time on nine community radio stations.
AMY GOODMAN: This is
Democracy Now! From Pacifica Radio, I’m Amy Goodman in Washington. Today on
Democracy Now!, “Live Free or Die,” a look at the political landscape in New Hampshire, where the Republican Revolution has taken its toll.
ARNIE ARNESEN: If you want a taste of the country after the revolution, you might as well visit New Hampshire today, because we’re the state that has the most regressive taxes in the country, that doesn’t have mandatory kindergarten, that doesn’t invest in its infrastructure.