Documents

The following are documents about ACT UP New York's organization and means of how to be an activist. We are dedicated to empowering groups to take direct action to end the AIDS crisis.

Because of the length of these files, we encourage people to download and distribute them. These are examples, not regulations. Different chapters in different locales will organize in ways best suited to their conditions. Above all, ACT UP is committed to a democratic, inclusive activism.

Please be sure to look through as many as possible, since several sections interconnect.

ACT UP New Members Packet	Civil Disobedience Manual (crucial)	How do we START an ACT UP chapter?
The original ACT UP Working Document	The Demonstrator's Manual (crucial)	ACT UP/New York Capsule History
The ACT UP Working Document (sort of)	Getting Arrested: Why do we do it?	ACT UP Research Bibliography
The Denver Principles PWA Empowerment _(1983...incredible document!)_	Why We Fight _Vito Russo, `1988`_	ACT UP/NY Treatment and Data Committee Teach-In (1989)
The First ACT UP Demonstration _Wall Street March 24, 1987	Marshal Training Manual	Who's "The Cure" For? _ _Maxine Wolfe, National Conference on Women & HIV
"When PWAs first sat at the high table" __'89 Montreal AIDS Conference__ by Ron Goldberg	Jon Nalley's Affadavit for the Day of Desperation Grand Central Station (1991)	The Role of AIDS Activists _DIVA TV program transcript_
Time to Become an AIDS Activist _(Direct Action Manual)_	ACT UP EXPLAINED by Jon Greenberg	Political Funerals DIVA TV
The Lesbian Avengers ACTION Outline	Jon Greenberg's Speech for Mark Fisher's Funeral _`confronting social norms`_	Welcome To New York _by Avram Finkelstein_ for Stonewall 25, 1994
Tactics of Early ACT UP _(excerpted) interview with Maxine Wolfe by Laraine Sommella, "Queers in Space"	Civil Disobedience as tactic, not culture _speech by Mitch Friedman_	I Want To Live By Any Means Necessary _by Kiki Mason _ for Stonewall 25, 1994
Academia and Political Organizing _by Maxine Wolfe_	MEDIA TRAINING SEMINAR	We know when we're well and when we're not
After 10 Years of ACT UP _Maxine Wolfe_	Treatment for all...Now ! Global Manifesto_ _Durban South Africa, 9 July 2000

FAQ: > I have been unable to print out your web pages and I finally figured out
> why. Most of your pages are designed with white text on a black
> background, and when printed, the black background is dropped out and
> white text on white paper doesn't work very well (OK, not at all).

If you use Netscape, check the black and white options in the print dialog box, the black background disappears and the white text prints as black. I'm told the Microsoft's web-browser has a problem with this. You could also copy and paste onto another word program. Additionally, you could have the pages "mailed" (i.e. save as) to you which will come as text files.