A South African teenager got tired of waiting in the clinic for his grandparents’ HIV meds. So he came up with a solution. All it took was a bicycle.
Healthcare
The Guy Who Delivers HIV Medicine On His Bicycle →
A New American Revolution
This is taken from our Declaration of Independence
–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
Medicare/Medicaid is not a light or transient cause
Social Security is not a light or transient cause
Equality is not a light or transient cause
Troy Davis was not a light or transient cause
Aid for our veterans is not a light or transient cause
The economy is not a light or transient cause.
The middle class is not a light or transient cause
The poor and the homeless are not light or transient causes
HIV/AIDS is not a light transient cause.
Occupy Wall Street is not a light or transient cause
We may think we alter the government with our elections but we continue to be abused by those we give power to and those that rule over them (big corporations and the wealthiest 1-2%)
It’s time for a revolution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hiding from the “AIDS at 30″ media storm. →
I shuttered myself from most of the hoopla surrounding the “AIDS at 30” milestone (we seem to have agreed on June 5, 1981, when an item in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reported deaths among gay men). The trauma of those early years is tough for me to revisit. Every media piece seemed to be about the past and it all felt emotionally overwrought and indulgent. I skimmed the coverage and secretly wished it would just go away.