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C2EA members from across the country have been very busy this Fall and it looks like there's no slowing down for World AIDS Day and beyond. Here are snapshots of some of the activities and organizing that has passed, ongoing and new C2EA advocacy network building, and previews of upcoming events.
Equality To End AIDS (E2EA); Hundreds of HIV & AIDS activists, allies, and loved ones huddled in the shadow of the White House on a chilly and damp Fall evening to demand leadership and urgency in the development of a national HIV & AIDS strategy and to reconnect the LGBT community to the larger HIV & AIDS activism.
Held during the weekend of the National Equality March, participants from all over the country and around the world danced, shouted, and swayed to powerful speakers and performers - many of whom are people living with HIV & AIDS - while remembering those before us, those passed, and urging those that will leads in ending this epidemic.
C2EA National Secretary and C2EA/Dallas member Marsha Jones looks on as Herbert Hodge opens the Dallas-area HIV & AIDS Community Discussion.
C2EA/ONAP HIV & AIDS Community Discussions; C2EA HIV & AIDS advocacy networks in Washington (NC), Dallas, Norfolk (VA), and Michigan, with collaboration from community partners and the Black AIDS Institute, have organized regional 'Community Discussions' to provide testimony to the White House Office of National HIV & AIDS Policy (ONAP). There has been great energy in creating venues that encourage participation and input from the grassroots community not on the original ONAP visitation schedule.
Most recently, dozens of women gathered in southeast Virginia to give testimony regarding women's and children's health issues and how those issues should be addressed within a comprehensive national HIV & AIDS strategy. On November 18, the Detroit metro area will host more than 100 participants from across the state of Michigan.
Building C2EA Advocacy Networks; Following in the footsteps of strong C2EA HIV & AIDS advocacy networks in Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia, new leaders have been emerging across the country as well as around the world.
Led by young activists Dy'ari Volumes, Carrie Rheingans, Ericka Florenciani, and veteran Roberto Archuleta, are developing networks respectively in New York City, Michigan, Puerto Rico, and Kansas City. Direct from participating as volunteer during the E2EA Rally & Vigil, C2EA Youth member is leading the new LGBTQQI Workgroup to tackle equality issues as it relates to HIV & AIDS.
People post their communities DEMANDS to be included in the national HIV & AIDS strategy on the C2EA booth at USCA in San Francisco.
World AIDS Day; From DC to San Francisco, C2EA members and allies will be marching and rallying with theme of 'Systems Failure' to define the current local, national, and global political and structural mechanisms that are charged with ending the HIV & AIDS pandemic.
Broken promise by President Obama on increasing global funding, lack of vision and leadership by city and state elected and appointed officials, mismanagement or misplacing of critical and life-saving funding and resources, among other things have led to an increase of infection rates, additional and unnecessary deaths, and a heightened urgency to develop and implement a comprehensive HIV & AIDS strategy on a levels.
C2EA at 5 Years; April 2010 marks the 5 year mark of The Campaign To End AIDS. People living with HIV & AIDS from every state and territory converged on DC in the Spring of '05 to 'Walk A Mile In My Shoes' and begin a journey whose only destination of ending the HIV & AIDS epidemic in this country and beyond.
Join the C2EA Outreach & Organizing Workgroup planning calls every other Monday afternoon at 2:30 est, using the toll-free number 1-866-394-9509, 9357895#. For more information on C2EA Workgroups or any events and activities occuring locally, regionally, or nationally, please contact info@campaigntoendaids.org.