Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 07:46:27 -0700
From: terryk@scn.org (Terry Kennedy)
Subject: [heal@seanet.com: HEAL/Seattle aligns with ACT UP on U.S./Canadian Border Protest]

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    From: heal@seanet.com (Ron Piazza)
    To: terryk@scn.org
    Subject: HEAL/Seattle aligns with ACT UP on U.S./Canadian Border Protest
    Date: Wed, 03 Jul

    
    HEAL/Seattle will align with ACT UP/ Seattle and ACT UP/San Francisco in a
    July 5
    protest at the U.S./Canadian Border at 12 noon.
    
    When Bill Clinton was running for President, he promised to lift a ban on a
    government
    policy not allowing people from other countries who tested HIV-positive to
    enter the U.S. Clinton did try to keep his promise but the Democratic
    controlled congress passed a law stating that it is FORBIDDEN for people
    from other countries who tested positive for HIV to enter the U.S. This year
    the 11th International AIDS Conference will be held in
    Vancouver, BC. Attendees who test positive for HIV from other countries
    cannot get
    across our border.
    
    HIV testing is inaccurate and not proof of HIV infection. (June 1993 Bio
    Technology
    article "Is a Positive Western Blot Proof of HIV Infection?" Eleni
    Papadopulos-Eleopulos, Department of Medical Physics, Valendar F. Turner,
    Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western
    Australia and John M. Papadimitriou, Department of Pathology, University of
    Western Australia).
    
    Dr. Frank Buianouckas from HEAL New York says that the HIV antibody test is
    flawed
    in four ways. 1) It tests for antibodies against proteins which are not
    unique to HIV. 2) There is no standard procedure for interpreting whether a
    Western Blot Test is positive. 3) The test is not reproducible, i.e. a
    sample analyzed by different laboratories or even examined again by the same
    laboratory yields different results. 4) HIV has never been isolated in its
    pure state. Any "isolation" has always been contaminated with cellular
    debris, so there is no gold standard for HIV.
    
    HEAL/Seattle supports ACT UP/Seattle and ACT UP/San Francisco and will
    participate
    in the demonstration to protest Clinton's broken promise at 12 noon at the
    US/Canada
    Border. For more information call HEAL Seattle at 206-391-6910 or e-mail
    heal@seanet.com
     
    At 10:58 PM 7/2/96 -0700, you wrote:
    >FORBIDDEN 
    >ACT UP/SEATTLE will protest at U.S./Canada Border 
    >
    >Four years ago, Presidential candidate Bill Clinton, made a series of
    >promises during the 8th International AIDS Conference. The conference had
    >been moved from the U.S. to Holland, because a government policy would not
    >allow HIV+ people from other countries to enter ours.  Clinton promised to
    >lift that ban. Once in office, he try but the Democratic controlled
    >congress pass a law stating that it is FORBIDDEN for HIV+ people of other
    >countries to enter the U.S.  Now we have the 11th International AIDS
    >Conference. It will be held this year in Vancouver, BC, July 7 - 12. It
    >will never again be held in the United States. Vancouver is as close as
    >HIV+ conference attendees from other countries can get to our border.  We
    >need to make a statement about this. 
    >
    >ACT UP/Seattle will hold a demonstration to protest this broken promise,
    >at Noon, July 5th at the US/Canada border. -- To remind people that HIV
    >itself knows no borders. If you are interested in participating call @
    >206.720.4686. 
    >
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    >
    >Meet at the Peace Arc, 11:15 AM, July 5th, 1996, Blaine, WA. Take I-5
    >North from Seattle, or if you are traveling from Vancouver BC, take 99
    >South.
    >
    >If you have a Doctor's Lab. coat, or something to make you look like
    >a medical researcher, bring it. The AIDS Activist will dress as
    >AIDS medical researcher with tags stating they are HIV+ and from another 
    >country. In their hands
    >they will be carrying a puzzle piece, representing that they are carrying a
    >piece of information that is needed for a solution to this human tragedy
    >call AIDS. 
    >
    >All these researchers will walk towards the U.S. Border, there
    >they meet Uncle Sam, he put up his hand and states that it is Forbidden for
    >HIV+ people to enter the U.S. 
    >
    >"If AIDS research is to move forward, why is the U.S. moving us back?"
    >states ACT UP/Seattle member Terry Kennedy. This is a Global problem and 
    >we must act like it. 
    >
    >If you want your name read as sponsor's of this action, send e-mail to 
    >terryk@scn.org
    >
    >
    >
    >