California is in a budget crisis, and HIV/AIDS programs are at risk of losing millions of dollars in funding. These cuts are truly scary, with proposals of up to $160 million in past weeks. Not only would this devastate state funding to health care programs, but it would also endanger the matching federal funds which would evaporate without the state contribution. People with AIDS/HIV, for whom health insurance is not a possibility, will literally lose their medication. And if they lose their medication, their risk of infection can increase 80% in the first month alone.
We must pressure our legislature and our governor to make HIV/AIDS funding a state priority, and ensure that the final budget decisions do not dismantle any aspect of HIV/AIDS healthcare.
Using the link www.TheseCutsWontHeal.com where you can find your legislator's phone number. Every call made to a legislative office is put on record and presented to said legislator, and this is our opportunity to push this issue to the top of our government's agenda. As of 2007, AIDS is officially a global pandemic. We must pressure our leaders to pay more attention to this urgent global issue, and we can start by making it an urgent local issue.
Crossposted via Unite The Fight.
Friday, June 19, 2009
'These Cuts Won't Heal' Ensure HIV/AIDS Funding Remains in California!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Stop The HIV Cuts Demonstrations in California
Californians from Los Angeles and Sacramento will rally against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed plan to slash funding for HIV/AIDS programs by the state. The plan will result in the loss of several programs and could bring about the loss of thousands of lives.
Two protests have been organized to counter the Governor's dangerous and unfair plan.
Friday, June 5,2009
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
6000 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Wednesday, June 10th
1:30-3 PM
North steps of the State Capital
Sacramento, CA
Contacts:
Oakland/East Bay Area
Naina Khanna
Director of Policy & Community Organizing
WORLD
510-986-0340 ext 316
nkhanna@womenhiv.org
Los Angeles
Ruel Nolledo
AIDS Project Los Angeles
213-785-1993
RNolledo@apla.org
For more information and to reserve transportation, check out Stop the HIV Cuts.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
1 Million to Invalidate Prop 8
Through the beauty of technology provided by Equality California, more than half a million of you have sent letters to your law makers in California urging them to invalidate proposition 8. The resolution would be non-binding but send a strong signal that proposition 8 in the eyes of the state government is unconstitutional and immoral.
New goal - Help EQCA send 1 million letters to lawmakers. Click here to fill out their online form, and be sure to send it to friends!
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Contact Your Representatives to Support Invalidating Prop 8!
The proponents of Prop 8 usurped the role of the Legislature by putting the right for same-sex couples to marry directly on the ballot. Two Equality California-sponsored resolutions will make it official state policy, when they are approved by the Legislature, that Prop 8 should be overturned. Write your legislators now to urge them to support the invalidation of Prop 8 and vote for SR 7 (Leno) and AR 5 (Ammiano). Prop 8 eliminates the fundamental right to marry and allows a slim majority to take away the equal protections of a minority, which violates one of the founding principles of our Constitution. The resolutions state the measure should have been approved by a two-thirds vote in the Legislature before going to voters. Urge your representative to support these resolutions.
Please fill out the form to contact your representatives.
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