How to Survive a Plague Page #9

Synopsis: In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, the disease was considered a death sentence affecting communities, like the LGBT ones, whom many in power felt deserved it. This film tells the story of how militant activists like ACT-UP and TAG pushed for a meaningful response to this serious public health problem. As the activists struggled against political indifference, religious hostility, corporate greed and apparently skewed scientific research priorities with determination and sheer audacity, they produced a political wave that would lead to not only an effective treatment regime, but would advance LGBT rights beyond anyone's expectations.
Director(s): David France
Production: Sundance Selects
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 19 nominations.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
2012
110 min
$122,665
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different place and in a

completely different

state of mind.

So then the question became,

Okay, now what do we need to do

in order to make it possible?

This is the beginning of the primary

season to elect the next president.

We want to send a message to all

of the candidates... we have not

seen them actively address the

AIDS plague, and we thought

it would be best to send a message by

voting with our feet in the streets.

I want to call for a massive

march on Washington.

The weekend the AIDS

quilt is gonna be there.

We have got to surround the

white house with people

concerned about AIDS to push

bush out of the white house!

Last night a man with

AIDS heckled Clinton,

charging that he had a bad record

on fighting AIDS in Arkansas.

When voter Bob Rafsky met Bill

Clinton, it was anything but pleasant.

We're dying in this state, what

are you going to do about AIDS?

First of all, it will become a

part of my obsession as president.

And that's why I'm running for

president, to do something about it.

Will you just calm down?

I feel your pain!

I feel your pain, but if you

want to attack me personally,

you're no better than Jerry

brown and all the rest of these

people who say whatever

sounds good in the moment.

If you want something to be done,

you ask me a question, you listen.

If you don't agree with me,

go support somebody else for

president, but quit

talking to me like that.

This is not a matter of personal

attack, it's a matter of human loss.

I came here tonight because

I'm dying from AIDS.

And it doesn't matter to me who

the next president is if they

don't change 11 years of government

neglect of this epidemic.

Is this on?

This isn't on.

Um, Okay, first off, um,

what happened this week was AIDS

became an issue in this campaign.

I'd like to call

down Bob Rafsky.

ACT UP!

Fight back!

Fight AIDS!

ACT UP!

Fight back!

Fight AIDS!

Uh, never debate a Rhodes scholar...

it gets you into a world of trouble.

It looks like what we have to do

is to keep forcing these clowns

to say the right thing so that

if one of them happens to become

president, we can hold them accountable

for doing the right thing.

Yeah.

But I just... it's always

important to say that we all

know that the names of the

people who might save our lives

are not Bill Clinton

and Jerry brown, etc.

The names of the people who

might save our lives are

iris long, Mark Harrington,

Peter Staley, etc.

And they're the ones who will be

remembered as the heroes of this epidemic,

as well as those who have gone before.

...and he smells

like one, too.

Well, I haven't showered,

so I'm not surprised...

No, I've just been writing and

I was up at 5 A.M. yesterday.

This is Bob's birthday,

July 22nd, 1992.

- Ready for the pyrotechnics?

- Yes!

Nathaniel, help.

No!

Yay!

Lydia E. Rios.

Steve H.

My friends David Evans,

Nicolas kaiser, George Marshall,

and my beloved brother Dennis J.

Robert R. Hakins.

Phillip Gregory Ellison.

Terry Ronan.

Michael Bennett.

Ron Field.

Tina Chow.

Perry Ellis.

Freddie Mercury.

Peter Allen.

To the thousands of other people who

were made to suffer in silence.

Join ACT UP for a

political funeral!

Meet at the South of

the capitol at 1 P.M.

Give a wake-up call to George

Bush and Bill Clinton and Perot.

I think the quilt itself does

good stuff and is moving.

Still, it's like making something beautiful

out of the epidemic, and I felt like doing

something like this is a way of showing

there's nothing beautiful about it.

You know, this is what I'm left with...

I've got a box full

of ashes and bone chips.

You know, there's

no beauty in that.

And I felt like a statement like

this is like saying "this is

what George Bush has

done," you know?

This is what him and Ronald

Reagan before him have done.

These are our loved ones and

this is what they've been

reduced to, and we're bringing them to the

person who's responsible for their death.

Fight back!

Fight AIDS!

ACT UP, fight back, fight AIDS!

ACT UP, fight back, fight AIDS!

ACT UP, fight back, fight AIDS!

ACT UP!

Fight back!

Fight AIDS!

Bringing the dead to your door!

We won't take it anymore!

Bringing the dead to your door!

We won't take it anymore!

Bringing the dead to your door!

We won't take it anymore!

Bringing the dead to your door!

ACT UP!

Fight back!

Fight AIDS!

ACT UP!

ACT UP!

Fight back!

Fight AIDS!

ACT UP!

Fight back!

Fight AIDS!

ACT UP!

Fight back!

Fight AIDS!

ACT UP!

Fight back!

Fight AIDS!

Shame, shame, shame, shame!

Shame, shame, shame, shame!

Shame, shame, shame, shame...

I love you, Mike!

I love you, Mike!

Welcome to the first of three

debates among the major

candidates for President of the

United States, sponsored by the

commission on

presidential debates.

Mr. president, yesterday tens

of thousands of people paraded

past the white house to demonstrate

their concern about the disease, AIDS.

A celebrated member of your

commission, magic Johnson,

quit saying that there

was too much inaction.

Where is this widespread feeling

coming from that your administration

is not doing enough about AIDS?

I can't tell you where it's

coming from, but I am very much

concerned about AIDS, and I

believe that we've got the

best researchers in the world

out there at n.I.H.

Working the problem.

It's one of the few diseases

where behavior matters.

And I once called on somebody,

"well, change your behavior.

If the behavior you're using, uh, prone

to cause AIDS, change the behavior."

Next thing I know, one of these

ACT UP groups is out saying bush

ought to change his behavior.

You can't talk about

it rationally.

Let everyone here know

that this is not a

political funeral for Mark

Fisher, who wouldn't let us burn

or bury his courage...

Or his love for us any more than

he would let the earth take his body

until it was already in flight.

He asked for this ceremony,

not so we could bury him,

but so we could celebrate

his undying anger.

This isn't a political funeral

for Mark, it's a political

funeral for the man who killed

him and so many others,

and is slowly killing me.

Whose name curls my tongue

and curdles my breath.

George Bush, we believe you'll

be defeated tomorrow because we

believe there's still some

justice left in the universe

and some compassion left

in the American people.

But whether or not you are, here

and now, standing by Mark's

body, we put this curse on you.

Mark's spirit will haunt you

until the end of your days,

so that in the moment of your defeat,

you'll remember our defeats.

And in the moment of your death,

you'll remember our deaths.

As for Mark, when the living can

no longer speak, the

dead may speak for them.

Mark's voice is here with us,

as is the voice of pericles, who

two millennia ago warned the

Athenian soldiers who didn't

have to die, and in whose death

he was complicit, but who had

the nobility to say that their

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David France

David Harry France, (born 30 June 1948) is an author, football historian and philanthropist. Throughout the past two decades, he has been the driving force behind numerous initiatives related to Everton Football Club including Gwladys Street's Hall of Fame, the Everton Former Players' Foundation, the EFC Heritage Society, the Founding Fathers of Merseyside Football and the David France Collection (now known as the Everton Collection). In January 2011, Liverpool's Freedom of the City panel rewarded David France with the prestigious title of Citizen of Honour.France was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to football in the United Kingdom and Europe. more…

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