Sentences with phrase «more aids activists»

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Activists have been calling to an end of the tax break recently, which they say only aids developers to build more luxury housing.

Pro AIDS treatment activists, led by VOCAL NY's Reginald Brown, center, announce plans to stay at the Capitol until the budget includes more money to fight the disease.

Five months after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, activists say that more aid is needed for the Island.

She has also faced criticism from some activists after she refused to support extension of public housing opportunities to all people living with HIV, as opposed to only those with an AIDS diagnosis; from civil liberties advocates for supporting a requirement than any outdoor demonstration of at least 50 people obtain a police permit; and from Lower Manhattan residents angry that more was not done to save St. Vincent's Hospital.

The activists are calling for more funding in the State budget for AIDS.

Like AIDS activists of 30 years ago but armed with much more powerful communications tools, patients challenged researchers and medical centers to explain why it was taking so long to offer Zamboni's approach.

AIDS activists argued that the committee should recommend against approving ddC for either use; they hoped to force Hoffmann - La Roche to conduct more studies to clarify how the drug can best be used.

2017's festival also reinforced its status as the home of politically charged cinema with a line - up that addressed the refugee crisis (and a bold new step into the world of virtual reality cinema), dystopian social experiments, mental health, and AIDS activists: there were more than enough fine caliber films to chew on for this year's audiences.

He's more than capable of disappearing into roles, altering his body language and speech patterns almost beyond recognition, but he can never quite suppress a certain soulful charm, whether he's playing a heroically abrasive AIDS activist in The Normal Heart or a dissolute A&R guy in Begin Again.

One faction of the group, including the more experienced activists who serve as its liaisons with the French government and leading research scientists, encourages a subdued and mournful mood in the group's public actions to draw attention to the AIDS pandemic: candlelight vigils, «Silence = Death» posters, public die - ins.

Ten more: S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99, a violent yarn with an indomitable Vince Vaughn performance; BPM, a moving look at AIDS activists in Paris; Before I Fall, a teen Groundhog Day; Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, a lush holiday at an Italian villa; Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, with its ingenious time - shifting narrative; Alexander Payne's social comedy Downsizing; William Oldroyd's Lady Macbeth, a period piece with bite; the uneven but lively satire The Square; Steven Soderbergh's clever heist picture Logan Lucky; and the Twilight Zone vibe of The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Robin Campillo's look back at the private and public passions of ACT UP's Parisian wing is split between the low - key story of an activist dying of AIDS and some more stylish and pumped - up set pieces that show the protestors stirring up controversy.

In addition to his work as an artist — which has become more widely recognized over the years — Wojnarowicz was a political activist in the midst of the AIDS crisis, the disease that would eventually take his life.

Conversation threads amongst committed activists spread into the mainstream (aided, of course, by the realities of global meltdown) and soon more and more people began checking out the site or radio and video podcasts.