NEWS UPDATE: ‘Positive Hell’ and ‘Positively False’ Both to Screen at Bluestockings in New York on Saturday . . . Because of London Ban!
October 20, 2016–Responding to the dropping of the short “AIDS” documentary Positive Hell from London’s Portobello Film Festival last month, New York City gay bookstore Bluestockings will screen the film this coming Saturday, October 22, from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. (Details HERE; full press release HERE.)
Also to be screened is Positive Hell director and narrator Joan Shenton’s previous film, Positively False: Birth of a Heresy. Barnett J. “Bud” Weiss, an organizer of the former HEAL-New York group, will lead the post-film discussion of this important historical document tracing the AIDS-dissident movement. Continue reading »
Comment (0)NEWS UPDATE: Flowers After the Date Rape? Clinton Tries to ‘Help’ Haiti While Hurricane Rages and Haitians Protest Earthquake Ripoff
October 7, 2016–The versatile emotional-blackmail model of AIDS relief has been trotted out again to exploit another kind of tragedy. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton this past Tuesday exhorted his Twitter followers to send money to unspecified “Members of the Clinton Foundation Community” to “help in Haiti” — even as Haitians were organizing rallies against the Foundation’s previous effort there. (The tweet is viewable HERE.)
Adding urgency to the appeal, the tweet featured a disaster-porn satellite photo of Hurricane Matthew flushing the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere down the familiar toilet-swirl of a Caribbean storm.
Some of those Twitter followers were not impressed with the Foundation’s record of “help.” Continue reading »
Comment (0)Episode 106: Dr. Wil Schweigert Explains How to Heal Your Whole Body with Help from Chiropractic
People often see a chiropractor when they have injuries — but can chiropractic treat immune issues? You bet it can! Dr. Wil Schweigert says, “Health is an inside job.” Chiropractic works as part of a total health program by restoring the brain-body connection. “Dr. Wil” talks to “How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely about how even HIV patients can benefit from this century-old but misunderstood therapy.
“Health is an inside job,” says Dr. Wil. When it comes to health, “it’s not the one thing, it’s the everything.” Continue reading »
Comment (0)Episode 83: Dr. David Simpson on Healing Yourself, Not Your ‘Disease’
Do you have “HIV/AIDS” or any defined “disease”? Or are you a system out of balance? What would it look like to support your body and immune system rather than shooting at imaginary measurements such as T-cells and “viral load”? What is a disease, anyway, and do we really need to define, isolate and attack such things? If we can listen to our bodies in such exquisite detail that we support them back to their natural states of life and health, why don’t more of us know about this highly rational therapy? Join New York City chiropractor Dr. David Simpson as he leads our co-hosts, David Crowe and Elizabeth Ely, on a fascinating inquiry into the nature of the human body and how we might support it. The technology has arrived, and it affirms ancient ideas of healing.
Comment (0)Episode 13: What Killed Keith Haring?
In this week’s podcast, the first full podcast with Celia Farber as co-host, we interview longstanding activist, cultural critic, and incidental AIDS historian Jim Fouratt who reveals the shocking truth about what really killed artist Keith Haring. Was it AIDS?
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