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"These policies have nothing to do with stopping AIDS," San Francisco AIDS Foundation member Rene Dury law, said. "They are a weapon to punish and abuse."
SAN FRANCISCO — As thousands of scientists gather at an international conference on AIDS, a matching army will fill the streets with demonstrations to protest how the U.S. government is dealing with the lethal illness.
Protesters from around the country have arrived along with the estimated 10,000 researchers attending the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, which runs today through Sunday.
Rough Sunday The protesters are led by the AIDS
The INS in April agreed to grant 10-day visits to people with the virus so that they could attend this and other professional conferences.
Protest counters AIDS meeting
ACT UP is among more than 100 international groups officially boycoting the conference because of the immigration laws. However, 40 members of the New York ACT UP chapter will be attending anyway.
Condition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), a militant group founded three years ago in New York. The demonstrations are designed to call attention to what ACT UP member Arawn Elibhyn calls the "complete lack of government response" to the epidemic.
The protests were scheduled to begin yesterday afternoon with a march through the financial district to protest the 1987 immigration law that bars people with the human immunodeficiency virus from entering the country.
Close vote predicted for flag amendment
"The close vote . . . indicates that
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee voted 19-17 yesterday to send a constitutional amendment protecting the flag to the House floor for a vote, as an Associated Press survey showed the measure short of the support needed to pass Congress.
either committed to or leaning toward the amendment pushed by President Bush, leaving it nine short of the 67 needed to pass.
The top Democratic leadership in the House and Senate are vehemently opposed to the amendment, but a vote against it is seen by Democrats and Republicans alike as risky business in an election year.
In the House, supporters and those leanning in favor outnumbered opponents 255-115, with 289 votes required for passage, the survey showed. Of the 63 who were under 40 years old, known Democrats, five were Democrats. The survey found 58 senators were
it's going to be a fairly close vote on the floor," said Rep. Jack Brooks, D- Texas, committee chairman.
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