From: detcom-AT-sprynet.com
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:56:26 -0800
Subject: M-NEWS: ACT-UP SHUTS DOWN WALL STREET



ACT UP SHUTS DOWN WALL STREET

There was no business as usual on Wall Street March 24,
the 10th anniversary of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.
ACT UP mobilized 800 people who marched through the streets
shouting: "Wall Street trades on people with AIDS," "We die,
they make money!" and "Health care is a right!"

Big signs denounced the price-gouging pharmaceutical
companies and demanded AIDS treatment for everyone who needs
it. Other signs condemned President Clinton and the Congress
for moving to cut Medicaid and other social services.

Teams of demonstrators blocked entrance points to the
Stock Exchange repeatedly. Each time a new area was opened
by the police more demonstrators were there to block it.
Police arrested 72 people.

A special team of demonstrators poured symbolic blood on
themselves, broke through the barricades and attempted to
get into the stock exchange. When the metal gates were
quickly rolled down, demonstrators splashed the blood on the
Stock Exchange doors.

--Marsha Goldberg