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How to Demand a Medical Breakthrough: Lessons from the AIDS Fight

By Nurith Aizenman — 2019

AIDS activist group ACT UP organized numerous protests on Wall Street in the 1980s. The group’s tactics helped speed the process of finding an effective treatment for AIDS.

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What’s the Point? The Failure of Community Activism

If you do fight you don’t necessarily win; but conversely, . . . “If you don’t fight, you don’t win.”

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Michael Organ
2013
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The Activist’s Dilemma

Activists want to be relevant and noticed and adopt tactics toward that end, but at the same time, they want to build support in the general public—and it’s just very hard to do both of those things at once.

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Nadra Nittle
2021
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