The One Campaign always has great videos to get their message out and their latest is no exception. Just out yesterday on YouTube, the newest One Campaign piece begins with the positive, something I always like, and celebrates all we have done to make the world better. It then goes into what we still need to do, which it seems is a lot:
The video, called “Celebrate Accelerate” was made for the Sept. 25 UN Summit and was shown to a group of world leaders at the Secretary General’s reception. Let’s hope they took the message to heart.
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Elizabeth Pisani’s new book The Wisdom of Whores examines AIDS research and treatment and how bureaucracy plays a role in both. More than that though, she offers an alternative to a system she sees as broken:
A disturbing and eeery portrait of a California housewife and step-mom that suddenly turns sick from the chemicals in the air is in part an attack of suburban culture and in part a more general metaphor for the AIDS epidemic. But these social critiques aside, Julianne Moore’s turn as Carol White is a fascinating look at a woman who wants more that to run a house. The scene of Carol at a pals baby shower, when a young child is sitting on her lap as she starts to experience an attack will sit with you for some time… As will the last moment of the film. It’s a true testament to the side our mother’s keep to themselves…
Everyone’s talking about the Greatest Living America, but I wanted to write about what I consider to be the Greatest Living American Comic Book with a Message: O+Men. As if we need yet another comic book about a team of superheroes of all races, genders and sexualities, who are HIV+! Really, though, it’s pretty cool. The artist, who used to work for Marvel, “wanted to show people that you could still be powerful with HIV” and “educate young people about the virus and how to avoid it, without being preachy.” So he created O+Men. O+Men: Negative came out last year, and O+ Men: Positive comes out later this month. Read the full 
Since 1986, AIDS Walk New York has raised $97 million for HIV programs and services in the tri-state area, and has grown into the largest AIDS fundraising event in the world. In 2007 alone, 45,000 participants, many of whom were members of 2,400 corporate and community teams, raised a record sum of more than $6.8 million for Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) and 60 other local AIDS service organizations.
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