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>> stonewall was the first wave. act up was the second wave. silence equals death became a mantra. that was all about visibility. >> you wont do it, so we will! you wont do it, so we will! >> aids changed everything. it changed how we organized ourselves at the national level. we got better organized politically. >> it was our responsibility to care for people, advocate for medicine, advocate for research, advocate for policy change. and out of that grew the larger lgbtq movement in a way that i...

>> i had people with hiv/aids coming to me saying, what have i done wrong? has god given me this virus to punish me, as jerry falwell said on television? >> we talk about aids as the judgment of god upon moral perversion in this society. >> while some took to the podium to blame gays for the disease, the president himself stayed silent on the growing epidemic until 1985. by then more than 12,000 in the united states had died. >> i find it unforgivable that our political leaders were willing to l...

>> act up! >> guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty! >> stonewall was the first wave. act up was the second wave. silence equals death became a mantra. that was all about visibility. >> you wont do it, so we will! you wont do it, so we will! >> aids changed everything. it changed how we organized ourselves at the national level. we got better organized politically. >> it was our responsibility to care for people, advocate for medicine, advocate for research, advocate for policy change. and out of t...

You tell the clients, when you see something, just like in new york city, when you see something, say something. that should also be addressed in the area of workplace violence. if someone is talking about weapons, if theyre angry, if theyre talking about getting revenge, if they exhibit any type of mental health problems, these are the times as co-workers we should have a responsibility to tell someone. hey, this guy has got some problems. somebody needs to talk to him and find out is he the ne...

Shooter. >> greg: juan, i think its a great match. returning vets and a job like this. 2100 students. its more than most employees at a mall that has armed security. makes sense to me. doesnt it make sense to you? >> juan: i worry about the idea that youre putting guns next to kids. i think who gets picked on as kids, kids that act up. i want to say i feel for parents whove lost a child. i think its important that we say you cant imagine the pain. there was a letter written from a mom to her dau...

About the people. he dont care about partisan politics. he is opening up the government, trying to give people an opportunity to make money, to give people an opportunities to earn a living and help their families until they can renegotiate. but i feel like that the president is being strong on getting this border done. he made the statement to say im going to try to give people some relief and give these -- the people on the left an opportunity to straighten their act up because, after we come ...

should get no jail time. if i were the judge you would look -- it goes back on his belief that he is he remorseful. maybe its his lawyers trying to be too cute by half. its almost as if youre making an argument for pardon. that would make me feel -- if i were the judge -- >> that its something suspicious. >> hes keeping the act up. despite the fact he was a great intelligence warrior, he was not just a politician. he may have been one step away from treason and he pulled back by cooperating b...

The criminal law. hes known about the most important federal anti-corruption law that applies to this potential moscow deal for years its the foreign corrupt policies act and it makes bribery of foreign officials punishable by prison. in fact, before he took office, he was denouncing this law. >> its a horrible law and should be changed. were policeman for the world, its ridiculous. every other country in the world is doing it. were not allowed to. it puts us at a huge disadvantage. let them cle...

>> well, i cant explain it, because i think we are in one of the most shameful moments in american history. and i hope more and more republicans somehow are able to get the spines that they have donated to science back and act up and stand up and speak up against these abuses of power by this president. look, i live in miami. this is a community that is full of political exiles. people who have fled dictatorships and human rights abuses in places like cuba and nicaragua and venezuela. what we ar...

The side. i cant help but think that maybe if something happened and somebody came knocking on his door, that piece of paper would have gone away. he protected us. >> i cant imagine the fear that you must have felt in 1989, in graduate school, you get the diagnosis and the fear that you must have felt and how dr. rabinowitz was able to help you at least combat that fear. >> i got to be honest with you, there were some dark times. there were some really dark times. and he was always there. he was...