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ACT UP Ithaca records

 Collection
Identifier: 7561

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Records include subject files on women and AIDS, communities of color, health/community organizations, CDC redefinition of AIDS, HIV exclusion (INS immigration policy), treatment data, Queer issues, Rep. James Seward, Senator Jesse Helms; files on ACT UP Ithaca actions and other ACT UP actions nationwide; file on networking with other ACT UP chapters; and file on ACT UP New York (City) actions.

Included is ACT UP's file on the national Marlboro-Miller boycott called in 1990 in response to the corporation's financial contributions to North Carolina senator Jesse Helms; ACT UP criticized Helms who was up for re-election for blocking efforts to provide AIDS education and prevention materials and for advocating mandatory HIV testing.

Also, agendas and minutes; information for new members (includes a history of ACT UP Ithaca); and media coverage of their activities.

Also subject files, including material on presidential candidate's positions on AIDS (1992), New York State and U.S. Policies on AIDS, local and national actions, and the Ithaca City School District's Health curriculum.

ACT UP files on local issues and projects including continued availability of free, anonymous HIV testing at Cornell University Health Services' Gannett Clinic; HIV/AIDS policies and practices at the Tompkins County Jail; action in Albany; the Corning Painted Post School District

Board of Education's policy on students and staff with HIV and the AIDS Curriculum Guide; publicity, position papers, ephemera, and minutes

Also, member Ned Brinkley's files on local and national ACT UP events and news.

Dates

  • 1989-1993.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

ACT UP is a non-partisan group of individuals committed to nonviolent, direct action to "end the AIDS crisis."

Extent

2 cubic feet. (2 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Records include subject files on women and AIDS, communities of color, health/community organizations, HIV exclusion (INS immigration policy), treatment data, Queer issues, Rep. James Seward, Senator Jesse Helms; files on various ACT UP actions, the national Marlboro-Miller boycott called in 1990, Board of Education's policy, and presidential candidate's positions on AIDS (1992); Also, member Ned Brinkley's files on local and national ACT UP events and news.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Correspondence
Box 4
Series II. Internal Files
Box 3
Series III. Actions
Box 2
Series IV. Conferences
Boxes 3,4
Series V. Media
Boxes 1,3,4
Series VI. Subject Files
Boxes 2,3,4
Series VII. Ned Brinkley Files
Box 5

SEPARATED MATERIAL

Periodicals

<emph render="italic">ACT UP Reports</emph>
1990: Fall/Winter, 1991 (No.2)
<emph render="italic">ACT UP/Los Angeles</emph>
1991: Apr./May, Sept./Oct.
<emph render="italic">ACT UP/San Francisco</emph>
1990: Feb./Mar., June/July
<emph render="italic">Activist Alert</emph>
1993: Mar.
<emph render="italic">AIDS Action Update</emph>
1991: Aug./Sept.
<emph render="italic">AIDS Clinical Care</emph>
1991: May-Sept.; 1992: Jan.
<emph render="italic">AIDS Conference Bulletin</emph>
1990: June 21; June 23
<emph render="italic">AIDS Treatment News</emph>
1990:June 15
<emph render="italic">AIDS Update</emph>
1991: Aug.
<emph render="italic">America Living with AIDS</emph>
1990: July
<emph render="italic">AmFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research)</emph>
1991: 1
<emph render="italic">BLK</emph>
1990: May, July, Aug., Oct.
<emph render="italic">Body Positive</emph>
1990: June
<emph render="italic">Community Center News</emph>
1991: Oct.
<emph render="italic">Cry Out! ACT UP/Pittsburgh</emph>
1991: May 8, June 18, Nov. 12; 1993: Feb. 5
<emph render="italic">Digest</emph>
1990: 32, 34, 38, 46, 56, 58-60, 62-63; 1991: 75, 82, 95; 1992: 126
<emph render="italic">Focus on AIDS</emph>
1991: Apr.
<emph render="italic">HIV New Mexico</emph>
1992: Mar.
<emph render="italic">Innovation</emph>
1990: Spring
<emph render="italic">NMAS (New Mexico AIDS Services, Inc.)</emph>
1992: Apr.
<emph render="italic">OUT [New Mexico]</emph>
1992: Mar.
<emph render="italic">Treatment Issues</emph>
1993: Feb.

Physical Description

Correspondence, documents.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
Cheryl Beredo
Date completed:
July 31, 2000
EAD encoding:
Julie Lonnberg and Peter Martinez, August 14, 2001
Date modified:
RMC Staff, January 2012
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by Cheryl Beredo
Date
August 14, 2001
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
ENG

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)