You helped us develop this important and ambitious agenda... Now join us to ensure its success!
Download the Action Agenda: bit.ly/ActionAgenda
Join our Working Groups: http://bit.ly/HIV_PJA_WG
An introduction to our Action Agenda, and our thanks:
As you know, the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA) is a network of organizations and individuals advocating for effective and just HIV prevention policies for the United States.
We grew out of the successful 2007 Prevention Justice Mobilization coordinated by the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP), which united hundreds of groups across the country at the intersection of HIV/AIDS, human rights, and struggles for social, racial and economic justice.
During our first year in our new organizational home at AIDS Foundation of Chicago (due to CHAMP’s closure at the end of 2010), we grew beyond our primary role as a national HIV prevention communication network of over 13,000 people, toward becoming more of a people-centered movement to bring social justice to the forefront of the fight against HIV/AIDS in the United States.
We remain a lean operation as far as our budget, with only two part-time staff people, guided by a 16-member national steering committee that is majority people living with HIV and people of color.
As with all o
ur efforts, we created this Action Agenda though a multi-step and open process.
We invited network members to contribute through online surveys, at in-person meetings and strategy sessions, through one-on-one conversations, on our webinars, and in different stages of the drafting of the document.
One of the strengths of our network is its diversity. You are an interesting and opinionated bunch, from all walks of life and in all areas of the struggle against HIV/AIDS in the United States. We know that not everyone in our network will agree with everything in this agenda. However, we hope that you will find something in here that reflects your experiences, beliefs and passions, even if all of it does not completely resonate with your priorities or work.
Most importantly, we hope that within the range of working groups, campaigns, strategies and ways to engage, you will find yourself taking the next steps to deepen your involvement as an HIV prevention justice activist in 2012 and beyond. This agenda is just the beginning – the real work is ahead of us as we move into action.
We thank all of you who took the time to contribute to this agenda, by talking with us on the phone or in person; in your online survey entries; participation in our conference calls, meetings and webinars; and/or your comments on our written drafts.
Thank you to our allies for your work and campaigns, many of which we look forward to supporting as part of this agenda in the coming year.
And finally, a special thank you to AIDS Foundation of Chicago interns: Emily Hanak, Emily 2.0 Jastromb, Kelly Nowicki and Rachel Farris for all their help this year on the HIV PJA and this Action Agenda.
Yours in the Struggle:
The Staff and Steering Committee of the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance:
Dee Borrego, Gina Brown, BJ Cavnor, Hadiyah Charles, Julie Davids, Daxon Dixon Diallo, Che Gossett, Keith Green, Venton Jones, Kiesha McCurtis, Jim Merrell, Mark Peterson, Anistla Rugama, Waheedah Shabazz-El, Charles Stephens, Laura Thomas, Monique Tula and Robin T. Webb
Download the Action Agenda: bit.ly/ActionAgenda
Join our Working Groups:http://bit.ly/HIV_PJA_WG
and stay tuned: We will post full-length versions of each area of our agenda to the website next week, in preparation for our upcoming Working Group planning calls
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