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Jun 2023
1h 23m

ACT UP, Fight Back

Cosmonaut Magazine
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Charlie Frank gives an overview of the forms of social mobilization that developed as a response to the AIDS pandemic as well as what lessons the left can draw from this chapter of history. 
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Outro Music: We are Friends Forever performed by Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment.

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