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sees parallels between the rise of ACT UP and the anti-war movement of the 1960s. Like the anti-war movement, he said, ACT UP’s rise is “driven by a sense of frustration, one of anger, one of futility.”
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ACT UP, international organization founded in the United States in 1987 to bring attention to the AIDS epidemic. It was the first group officially created to do so. ACT UP has dozens of chapters in the United States and around the world whose purpose is