ACT UP Meetings
Footage of ACT UP Meetings is relatively rare and much of what remains is presented here. The regular meetings were held Monday nights starting at 7 pm and often going until 11. They were held in Room 101 at the LGBT Center on 13th Street in Manhattan except for a brief period in 1990-1991 when they were moved to the Great Hall at Cooper Union because the membership overflowed the room at the Center. The meetings were run according to a modified version of Robert’s Rules of Order (often referred to as Roberta’s Rules of Order) by 2 facilitators. The teams of facilitators were elected every 6 months. The meetings had an agenda set by the Coordinating Committee that was often augmented or altered just before the general meeting and often during it. They generally began with reports from the various committees and announcements about upcoming actions and other related material and then went on to discussions about proposed actions, events, zaps and the like. Just inside the entrance to the meeting was a very long table covered with flyers and Xeroxed copies of information related to the AIDS crisis.
Documentation
Meeting before Albany Action (Probably March 26, 1990). David Barr, David Robinson, Gregg Bordowitz, James Wagner, Steve Helmke, Jamie Bauer, John Kelly, Rollerena and others speak. Footage shot by Testing the Limits (NYPL Tape #1766)
ACT UP Meeting, probably March 26, 1990 Jamie Bauer and David Robinson are facilitating. Insurance report from Wayne Kawadler and Karin Timour. Richard Elovich on Needle Exchange. Daniel Wolfe on the State Budget, Ann Northrop on soundbytes. Footage shot by Testing the Limits (NYPL Tape #1765)
Footage shot by Tony Arena
ACT UP Meeting probably October 12, 1992 Speakers include Shane Butler, Alexis Danzig, Eric Sawyer, Mark Milano, Karin Timour, Bob Rafsky, Andy Velez, Karen Moulding, James Learned, Jon Winkleman, Barbara Hughes, Betty Williams, Michael Cunningham, Richard Deagle and others. (TA006 – second half of tape)
ACT UP Strategy Session on Education and Prevention and Treatment and various other issues. Moderated by BC Craig and James Learned. Speakers include Dana Beal, Harry Wieder, Ron Goldberg, Alexis Danzig, Aldyn McKean, Andy Velez, Betty Williams, Eric Sawyer and others. Footage shot by James Wentzy. (JW0287 & JW0286)
Shot by Tony Arena. Possibly May 3, 1993. Discussion of dissatisfaction with the David Dinkins' Administration's AIDS policies and going to talk to Rudolph Giuliani during the mayoral campaign. Iris Long discusses the female condom. Larry Kramer talks about his attempts to confront Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala. Then there is discussion of a meeting between Shalala and a group of lesbians with AIDS. (TA004Arena-kramer-MOW-AUmeeting1)
Press Conference February 16, 1994 to announce the settlement between the City of New York and Chris Hennelly who was viciously beaten while acting as a marshal at the Midtown North Precinct Station House during an ACT UP demonstration on February 11, 1991.
31:34 - March 14, 1994 “Save the DAS” action – ACT UP organizes the first in a series of coalition actions targeting Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration in response to the mayor’s proposal to eliminate the Department of AIDS Services (DAS) Footage shot by Tony Arena. (TA007)
Community Forum on AIDS Research: How Do We Find a Cure? March 12, 1994. Moderated by Ann Northrop. Panelists were Mark Harrington of TAG, Mark Milano of ACT UP and Dan Cusick of Project Inform. Footage shote by James Wentzy. (JW0066)
Continuation of Community Forum on How Do We Find a Cure? Footage shot by James Wentzy. (NYPL Tape #0071-1)
Discussion of Accelerated Approval and Large Simple Trials with David Robinson, Dr. Suzanne Philips, Bill Bahlman, Luis Santiago, Dr. Diana Williams. There are technical problems with the first 38 seconds of the tape. Footage shot by James Wentzy. (JW0082-1)
Further discussion of Accelerated Access and Large Simple Trials with Gregg Gonsalves, Derek Link, Dr. Suzanne Phillips, Dr. Diana Williams, Bill Bahlman, Dudley Saunders, David Robinson, Maxine Wolfe and others. Footage shot by James Wentzy. (JW0080-2)
Community Forum on Are We Surviving?: The State of HIV Prevention in the Gay & Lesbian Communities. The forum was moderated by Ann Northrop and Richard Burns. The panelists were Robin Miller, Walt Odets, Michelangelo Signorile, Colin Robinson, Carmen Vazquez, Richard Elovich, Michelle Santiago and Andy Montoya. Footage shot by James Wentzy. (JW0034)