Activists stood up against the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s, but the tools they used to make themselves heard are unavailable during our coronavirus pandemic. Still, many of that era’s strategies and warning signs seem alarmingly relevant now.
Discussed this week:
“How to Survive a Plague” (directed by David France, 2012)ACT UP New York “How ACT UP Remade Political Organizing in America” (David France, The New York Times, April, 2020)“‘A Tragedy Is Unfolding’: Inside New York’s Virus Epicenter” (Annie Correal, Andrew Jacobs and Ryan Christopher Jones, The New York Times, April, 2020)“America’s Hidden H.I.V. Epidemic” (Linda Villarosa, The New York Times, June, 2017)“Amazon’s Whole Foods to Cut Medical Benefits for Part-Timers” (Spencer Soper, Bloomberg, September, 2019)America Has a Problem
Plastic Off the Sofa
I'm That Girl
New Foundation
Summer Renaissance
Alien Superstar
We Belong Together
When Your Neighbor’s the Highway
And a Britney Song Was On …
Sweat Equity
Can Athletes Ever Be Movie Stars?
Keanu
Sex, Death & Bunnies
Where'd All the Method Acting Go?
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American Top 40
A New Season of 'Still Processing'
'Before I Let Go'
The People in the Neighborhood
We, Tina
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It is Free
The Modern West
The Daily
Modern Love
The Ezra Klein Show
Dear Sugars
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