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ACT UP N.Y. Commemorates 25th Anniversary By Taking To Wall Street with OWS To End Financial Crimes Against People With Aids & The 99%
With
Judit Rius Sanjuan, U.S. Manager of the Access Campaign, Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
and
Eric Sawyer, founding member ACT UP, Housing Works, Health Gap and senior advisor of UNAIDs




ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) joined by Occupy Wall Street (OWS), the organization making history with its public encampments and protests against the global financial community will discuss plans for a daylong
siege in Lower Manhattan on ACT UP's 25th anniversary, The groups are intent on pumping up the volume on a growing outcry for a "Financial Speculation Tax" (Fi.S.T.) on Wall Street. They’re calling on local, state, & federal legislators to "give Wall Street the FiST," to fill AIDS funding gaps and — once and for all — provide universal healthcare in the US. It’s time for effective healthcare to be made available to everyone — to the 99%, not just the 1%. The AIDS crisis is not over, but it could be! Tax Wall Street to End AIDS

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AFL-CIO To Banks: Pay to Create Jobs You Destroyed in the “Great” Recession
with
Dan Pedrotty, Director, Office of Investments, AFL-CIO

The AFL-CIO is mounting a national campaign to put America back to
work and ensure that the banks, whose reckless acts created the jobs crisis,
pay to create the jobs they destroyed, stop fighting financial reform and start
lending. Saying that neither Congress nor the Obama administration has
proposed an adequate jobs bill, the AFL-CIO is calling for extending
supplemental unemployment benefits, $2.2 trillion for unmet infrastructure
needs, & helping state & local governments overcome an estimated $588
billion shortfall over the next 4 years. The program would be paid for by
imposing fees on Wall Street banks to pay back the cost of the bank bailout,
a special levy on Wall Street bonuses, increased taxes on hedge fund &
private equity managers, & a financial transactions tax.

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