As a college student, I helped start the Student Global AIDS Campaign. We organized students on 300+ campuses to push for global AIDS funding. 1/https://twitter.com/mjgerson/status/936423282521370624 …
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An extraordinary group of people got involved. Future Obama staffers. Brilliant organizers. It’s how I met my now wife.
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It wasn’t a partisan fight. Evangelicals—conservative, pro-life, and genuinely committed to the idea that every person is precious—played a critical role.
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AIDS activism was how I learned to lobby Congress, to organize constituents, and to build coalitions. And it was my first experience in being part of a huge victory:
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In 2003, thanks to efforts by a vast array of people including
@MJGerson in W’s White House, Bono,@jenniferflynn, John Kerry, and grassroots activists nationwide, Bush proposed a serious & extraordinary program to fight the AIDS crisis.3 replies 12 retweets 90 likesShow this thread
It’s such an interesting and rarely invoked moment in history of social movements in US
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