The Campaign to End AIDS (C2EA) National Steering committee convened in mid-January in uncharacteristically chilly South Padre Island, Texas to strategically chart the advocacy and activist goals for 2012 and beyond. In the eighth year since C2EA began, its current steering committee members – representing the many regional, ethnic, and gender identities of people living with and affected by the U.S. HIV & AIDS epidemic – look to challenge and influence local, state, and national policy and politics. The group also aims to raise the visibility and voice of C2EA leaders and members across the country, support and develop the meaningful participation and leadership of people who living with HIV & AIDS, their networks, allies, and loved ones.

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Among the tasks and activities C2EA is looking forward to in 2012: – Continue to support and C2EA leaders/members and networks to influence city, state, and national campaigns for office by utilizing AIDSVote tools and ensure that HIV & AIDS issues are a priority platform issue for candidates; – Meet outreach and membership goals that build toward 15,000 C2EA members by 2015; – Support and encourage HIV & AIDS advocacy and activism that builds on the C2EA 5 Demands and prioritizes the voice, lives, and dignity of people living with HIV & AIDS throughout the U.S. and around the world; – Support C2EA leaders/members into meaningful leadership and planning roles on the city, state, and national level.

Led by the Steering Committee, C2EA plans to continue to build on its nationally and internationally visible advocacy and activism and with allies and partners, demand that our leaders exert the political will to stop the epidemic, in the U.S. and abroad, once and for all.

Important upcoming dates:

June 10-16 2012; C2EA Youth Action Institute, Washington DC

July 24 2012; ‘We Can End AIDS’ Human Rights, Economic & Social Justice Mobilization March, Washington DC (during the 2012 International AIDS Conference)

October 22-25 2012; C2EA Women’s HIV & AIDS Advocacy & Leadership Summit, Boca Raton FL (during the third and final Presidential Debate)

January 2013; C2EA Advocacy & Activist Summit, location to be announced.

For more information about C2EA and to contact the Steering Committee please email or call 1877.END.AIDS (363.2437).

Campaign To End AIDS Steering Committee Members

Michelle Anderson, Dallas TX
Roberto Archuleta, Kansas City MO
DeShawn Bunton, Lubbock TX
Christine Campbell, Washington DC
William Francis, Atlanta GA
Angela Green, San Francisco CA
Marsha Jones, Dallas TX
Tony Ray, New York NY
Justin Thompson, New York NY
Diane Walker, Denver CO