Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 /
"Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration--and long-overdue reassessment--of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one...
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Political foundations. Change and power. Introduction : how change is made
- Mechanisms of power : Puerto Ricans in ACT UP
- The first treatment activists
- The dynamics of effective action. Choosing the right target : seize control of the FDA
- Collective leadership : stop the church
- Paths of leadership. Inspiration and influence : Larry Kramer, Maxine Wolfe, Mark Harrington
- Treatment and data #2 : citizen scientists
- Changing the definition : women don't get AIDS, we just die from it - Radical resistance and acceptance. Mother and son : the death of Ray Navarro, the vision of Patricia Navarro
- Harm reduction as a value, an ideal, a way of life and death : ACT UP's campaign for needle exchange
- Art in the service of change. Art making as creation and expression of community. The artistic life of resistance ; strategic images : photography, video, and film - Creating the world you need to survive. Activism coheres values and creates counterculture. Getting and creating media
- Community Research Initiative, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, and the Battle over AZT
- ACT UP and the Haitian Underground Railroad
- Lawyers for the people
- The culture and subculture of civil disobedience - Money, poverty, and the material reality of AIDS. Insurance equals access, and without access there is no treatment
- How the ACT UP housing committee became housing works, housing for homeless people with AIDS
- YELL : the evolution of queer youth politics
- Funding ACT UP's campaigns - Desperation. Division. Storm the NIH action at the National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1990
- The dinner : December 1, 1990
- Day of desperation : January 23, 1991
- Are women "vectors of infection," or people with AIDS? : Clinical Trial 076, April 1991
- AIDS hysteria : the case of Derek Link
- The split : January 1992 - Living and dying the mass death experience. Treatment and data #3
- Ashes action : October 5, 1992
- Political funerals
- Conclusion : the myth of resilience and the enduring relationship of AIDS
- A personal conclusion
- Appendix 1. ACT UP and the FBI
- Appendix 2. Tell it to ACT UP
- ACT UP New York time line
- ACT UP oral history interviews.