'Bury Me Furiously' - Political Funerals from the 80's and 90's. [View all]

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This link remembers the funerals of activists during Reagan and Bush and Clinton, funerals that were political because the deaths were political and the fallen desired to speak out even in death, they wanted their loved ones not just to mourn but to fight back.

There are many people on DU who might benefit from reading and watching some of this material. Read them with gratefulness for these lives.

Ashes Action
October 13, 1996
Washington, D.C.
ACT UP took the cremated human remains of those we have loved
who were murdered by AIDS and killed by government neglect
throwing the ASHES onto the White House Lawn.
In their report released in July 1996, Clinton's own Advisory Counncil on HIV/AIDS
expressed "grave concern" that Clinton's federal HIV prevention strategy is
"underdeveloped and timid."
http://www.actupny.org/diva/polfunsyn.html

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