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Act Up Fight Back Fight AIDS - Act Up Philadelphia - Since 1987, Act Up Philadelphia Has Been Fighting for Justice for People Living with HIV, and for the Communities That Are Most Devastated by the AIDS Crisis - in Philadelphia, the U.S., and around the World. Act Up Philadelphia Is Different - It Sees the AIDS Crisis as a Political Crisis, a 25-Year-Old Catastrophe That Was Allowed to Happen Because of Greed, Racism, Neglect, and Bigotry. [...] - Celebrate Peoples' History

ADAPT - Since the Early 80s, ADAPT Has Been a National Network of Activists with Disabilites That Employs Nonviolent Civil Disobedience to Demand Changes in Policies That Exclude People with Disabilites from American Society. [...] Celebrate Peoples' History

Another Distortion in the Technological Revolution Is that, instead of Strenghtening Democracy at Home, it Has Helped to Eviserate it. Gargantuan Industry and Government Woven into an Intricate Cimputerized Mechanism Leave the Person outside. The Sense of Participation Is Lost, the Feeling that Ordinary Individuals Influence Important Decisions Vanishes, and Man Becomes Separated and Diminished - Martin Luther King

"Armed with the Knowledge of Our Past We Can Charter a Course for Our Future. Only by Knowing Where We've Been Can We Know Where We Are and Look to Where We Want to Go." - In Memory El Hajj Malik Shabazz - Celebrate Peoples' History

Atenco Guanta - El Pueblo Se Levanta - Celebrate Peoples' History - San Salvador de Atenco Has a Long History of Resistance to the Central Government, Dating from Before Mexicos's Revolution of 1910. In 2001, Atenco Villagers, Mostly Small Farmers, Organized the Peoples' Front for Defense of the Land and Stopped Former President Vincente Fox from Grabbing Their Farmlands for the Construction of a New International Airport. [...]

The Austin Community Is on Chicago's Far West Side and Is Anchored by a Group of Women who Look out over their Neighborhood for the Sake of the Children. These Grandmother Gatekeepers Are the Powerful Protectors of the Young. The Kind-Hearted Benefactors of Supple and Uncertain Lives. Their Steady Efforts amidst Manifold Risks Are Invisible to Many, but not Those That Depend on Them to Rise up and Grow. Bridging Wisdoms That Will not Be Erased, Tracing (Her) Stories to Know the Meanings of Today. - Celebrate Peoples' History

Bayard Rustin 1912 - 1987 - Loving Your Enemy Is Manifest in Putting Your Arms Not around the Man but around the Social Situation - To Take Power from Those who Misuse it, at Which Point They Can Become Human Too. Celebrate Peoples History

Begun 1925 - The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (& Maids) Built the Groundwork for the U.S. Civil Rights Movement - "Power Concedes Nothing without a Demand". Power Concedes Nothing without a Struggle. Never Has, never Will." Frederick Douglass - The Brotherhood Was a Labor Based Moment Seeking Civil & Economic Rights for African Americans - Celebrate People's History!