Page 25 - Act Up News Today

>> is it really that tough? >> i have to out last the kid, it is tough for me. strong willed. but i think you have to know your child. and i think our children are used to gabby adults. there was not much talking when it came to discipline, there was right and wrong. >> parents were too busy working, little different environment. this is a perfect punishment, take away the phone, the ipad, x box, go in your room and you can only touch books. there is the answer, that is the punishment. not an ib...

See, thats how jail works. if youre good to people, people are good to you. if you act like an [ bleep ] -- >> over the last seven to ten days were starting to see his behavior change because weve been giving him less attention. weve been giving him less attention, having one or two people dealing with him. weve started to kind of trim the numbers down so when he does act up, we just have the necessary people around to deal with him, and up to this point, we have seen some improvement in his beh...

If you act like an [ bleep ] -- >> over the last several days, were starting to see the behavior change because weve been giving him less attention, having one or two people dealing with him. weve started to kind of trim the numbers down so when he does act up, we just have the necessary people around to deal with him, and up to this point, we have seen some improvement in his behavior, and things are really starting to get better with him. >> while staff has adopted a new approach to dealing wi...

>> people were being fire from their job, evicted from their apartment, denied health insurance. everything. city government was also absent. ed cotchs administration was not talking about aids publicly. >> actup is born in 1987, emerging from the powerlessness that many affected by the disease are feeling. >> actups original photo was also its formula. anger into action. our grief, after a while, became anger. we took that anger and frustration and we focused it. >> a key part of actups strateg...

And a lot of people were using rhetoric, when i die, throw my body over the white house fence. >> in 1992, with the presidential election looming, actups activists seized the opportunity to put aids research on the national agenda. >> actup began a year-long campaign called campaign 92: aids, vote if your life depended on it. >> on october 11th, three weeks before the election, thousands of actup members come to washington to perform a solemn protest. >> no more -- >> they coincided with the aid...

Better start doing something to stop the dying, or, you know, you literally are going to be walking on bodies. >> shame, shame, shame, shame. >> it was the most emotionally charged thing ive ever participated in. we never had a problem with showing our anger, but below that really thin layer of anger was this enormous ocean of grief. this is whats left of our lives. this is whats left of our community. these ashes are the person i love the most. this is whats left. >> actup continues to perform ...

Central terminal -- >> tony arena is a former videographer for actup. >> what i remember the most was the noise. i mean, we were so loud. >> so its hundreds and hundreds if not a thousand people inside grand central. it was an incredible thing to see. >> seeing the banners hanging over the train schedule and the banners floating on the ceiling gave me a sense of pride, you know, like, we really did it. >> day of desperation attracts attention to the cause, but the urgency of actups mission conti...

>> day of desperation actually begins the night before with a daring stunt that will be seen by millions. as the media focus on the beginning of the gulf war, actup, using fake i.d. badges, tries to sneak into a number of news organizations. planning to disrupt their live broadcasts. they succeed at cbs. >> good evening. were going to take a break for a commercial just now. >> we knew that cameras were going to cut off as soon as they could. so we didnt know whether we were going to get one word...

>> ricardo gomes is also dealing with a reputation issue. he recently had a cup of urine confiscated from his cell. he says he was going to throw it at a particular officer, but an even more sinister concoction. >> i was planning on making a special remedy we used to do back in the old days called funky cold medina. its kind of like skunk juice. its made out of some really nasty parts, urine, feces, peanut butter and sour milk. and we mix it together until its liquid. if you hit anybody with thi...

[ bleep ] comes out of there so well have to take him out of the chair eventually. he still continues to make threats and [ bleep ] act up and violate the rules of the department. >> lieutenant medeiros has a problem with me. >> you tell him. >> hes a [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> with gomes safely restrained, deputies conduct a search of his cell, checking for weapons or other contraband. it isnt long before they find cause for concern. >> we discovered inmate gomes tied multiple shoelaces around his...