MEDIA ADVISORY

www.HousingFightsAIDS.org
CONTACT: Sean Barry - (646) 373-3344, barry@nycahn.org

HIV/AIDS Community Planning Major Rally

and Civil Disobedience; Call For Dignity and
Housing By Passing 30% Rent Cap
Advocates Will Urge Governor Paterson To Work With Legislature To
Enact Legislation During Special Session Before He Leaves Office
WHEN: Tuesday, November 9th from 11:30am – 12:30pm

WHERE: Rally on Broadway between Barclay and Park (next to City Hall Park). Civil disobedience
will involve twenty advocates laying down and blocking Broadway at Park.

WHAT: Rally by a coalition of elected officials and HIV/AIDS, housing and community
organizations, followed by a civil disobedience on Broadway led by Executive Directors and staff
from ten leading service organizations and people living with HIV/AIDS.

WHO:
! Civil disobedience: Directors and senior staff from these organizations will be arrested –
Bailey House, Bronx AIDS Services, CitiWide Harm Reduction, Community Health Action of
Staten Island (CHASI), Harlem United, Health GAP, Housing Works, NYC
AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN) & VOCAL, New York Harm Reduction Educators, West
Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing
! Elected officials speaking during rally: Senators Tom Duane and Liz Krueger, Assembly
Members Deborah Glick and Richard Gottfried, Council Member Robert Jackson and
Jummane Williams.

WHY: Governor Paterson rejected a bill that would prevent 10,000 low-income New Yorkers living
with HIV/AIDS and their families from becoming homeless that he called his “most difficult veto,”
although he has since expressed a desire to work with the legislature to enact it before he leaves
office.

SPONSORED BY: African Services Committee, AIDS Center of Queens County, AIDS Services Center,
Bailey House, Bronx AIDS Services, Brooklyn AIDS Task Force (BATF), CitiWide Harm Reduction,
Community Health Action of Staten Island, Drug Policy Alliance, Exponents, Federation of Protestant Welfare
Associations, Fifth Avenue Committee, GMHC, Harlem United, Harm Reduction Coalition, Hispanic AIDS
Forum, Housing Works, Latino Commission on AIDS, Manhattan HIV Care Network, New York Harm
Reduction Educators (NYHRE), Queens HIV Care Network, Positive Health Project, Praxis Housing
Initiatives, Project Hospitality, Real Rent Reform, Tenants Political Action Committee, Turning Point, Voices
Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL) / NYC AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN), West Side Federation
for Senior and Supportive Housing.
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