We will not end AIDS on the course we are currently on
We are not on track. We will not end AIDS without economic justice.
We need economic justice for all. We will not end AIDS
without human rights. We demand human rights now!
We’ll take no more! We’ll take no more! We’ll take no more!
So many things are destroying people's human rights.
Whether it’s the war on people who use drugs, the war on sex workers,
the criminalization of people with HIV, free trade agreements,
that are going to deny access to affordable medicine for people,
denial of HIV prevention and other health services for people in prisons,
more and more people being put into prisons and put at risk;
these are all human rights concerns that are urgent and pressing.
And unless we do something about that we’ll never end AIDS.
Everyone is so afraid to hush the buzz of American optimism,
and to point out that if we’re really gonna end AIDS
we have to start making hard decisions about standing up
for politically unpopular things.
This conference is being held in a country that makes it inadmissible
for people who use drugs or sex workers to get visas or visa waivers,
and I think it’s wrong to exclude people who are most affected by HIV
from a conference that’s about their lives.
No more drug war! No more drug war! No more drug war!
I’m here because I’m sick of what the war on drugs is doing to the community
that I live in, and it’s gotta end. It’s too much distruction,
it’s and incredible waist of money, and resources
and it’s destroying American democracy.
One in three of the infections occurring outside Africa in the World
is dependent on people who use drugs.
And bad policies, inappropriate policies that drive drug users
underground actually fuel the AIDS epidemic.
Our banner says: harm reduction equals life, so we’re advocating
for clean needles for all drug users, and also in the prison system as well.
I’m a supporter of boycott Wells Fargo primarily because they own some
private prisons, locking people up, HIV’s a real problem.
We know what works, housing works! We all agree!
If you have sex with someone and you don’t disclose your status, the maximum sentence
is thirty years in Missouri.
Criminalization of HIV transmission stops people wanting to know
whether they’re HIV positive or not, because if they do know,
then they could be criminalized if they have sex
knowingly without disclosing their status.
AIDS can be defeated if the people are treated! AIDS can be defeated if the people are treated!
Put money into the Global Fund, politicians around the world,
put your money where you’re big mouths are. Now!
Why are we here promoting the Robin Hood tax?
That money came from us and we need it back!
And we’re not going to stop till we get it back!
I’m Robin Hood, you’re Robin Hood, the nurses are Robin Hood,
and we are not going to stop fighting until somebody on Wall Street,
somebody in Washington, some of those dizzy politicians listen, and give that money back!
We need agreements to get people drugs, not U.S. and EU trade agreements
that get PHARMA bigger profit.
We are living proof, we are living proof, we can end AIDS,
we will end AIDS, clean needles, save lives, sound policies, save lives…Come on, now…
What would be your message to Barack Obama? My message to Obama would be
be of course to repeal the travel restrictions, to decriminalize adult sex work immediately,
to insure harm reduction in all its forms including needle exchange
and access to supervised injection facilities, and take an evidence-based approach
to those really critical social justice issues of our time.
My message to president Obama is the same as that of all Latin American presidents
last month in Cartagena. Stop the war on drugs.
Well I love Barack Obama. I’m voting for Barack Obama. My message to him is,
get off your big butt, and let’s get some money out here to fight this virus.