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    Posted July 9, 2009 by
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    26 AIDS Activists Protest, Get Arrested in Capitol Rotunda

    By MaxO  |  Posted July 9, 2009  |  Washington, DC, District of Columbia
     

    They came in on tours of the Capitol, but when they got to the Rotunda, they suddenly put on t-shirts reading "Congress: Housing Saves Lives. Clean Needles Work. Fight Global AIDS." They chained themselves together and chanted in the Rotunda. Some of them unfurled a GIANT banner with the same message.

     

    They are asking Congress to increase funding for AIDS housing, to lift the funding ban on needle exchange programs, and to meet our commitments to funding global AIDS (programs like the Global Fund and PEPFAR).

     

    Guards tried to rush all the visitors and media out of the Rotunda, but these photos and images got passed along. Hooray for the internet!

     

    I hope Congress gets the message -- people with AIDS need safe places to live and take their medicines. Needle exchanges save lives and they're safe and effective. Fighting global AIDS is a) what we promised to do when we joined the Global Fund, b) good public-health policy, and c) needed to save lives and end the epidemic!

     

    Did anyone else who was there get good pictures?

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