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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 won't do it, so we will! you won't 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 don't think would have happened otherwise. this tragic life-stealing disease ended up mobilizing ...

>> 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 let people who had no power at that time die. because we had no political power. but we changed that ...

>> 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 won't do it, so we will! you won't 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 don't think would have happened otherwise. this...

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 they're angry, if they're 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 next shooter? is he the next suicide person? or is he just going to pick up and move to another town...

Shooter. >> greg: juan, i think it's a great match. returning vets and a job like this. 2100 students. it's more than most employees at a mall that has armed security. makes sense to me. doesn't it make sense to you? >> juan: i worry about the idea that you're 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 who've lost a child. i think it's important that we say you can't imagine the pain. there was a letter written from a mom to her daughter, i was reading it. it's valentine's day. that's her memory. her daughter went to school...