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AHF to Host Brooklyn #StandAgainstHate Community Forum Thurs., Sept. 14th, 6:00pmAIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) will host an open community forum in Brooklyn at its Community Room on Atlantic Avenue on Thursday, September 14th starting at 6:00pm as part of its new, national advocacy campaign, #StandAgainstHate. AHF launched the #StandAgainstHate campaign in response to the tragedy in Charlottesville and its turbulent, eye-opening aftermath-a tragedy which exposed a national moral crisis rending the country the scale of which has not been seen for more than half-century. The campaign is taking on the hatred, racism and burgeoning white supremacy movement so brutally unmasked by Charlottesville and its aftermath. The #StandAgainstHate campaign features a national billboard campaign, a social media launch on media platforms of AHF and many of its affiliate organizations as well as the hosting of community forums-such as this one Brooklyn-including listening and talkback sessions in select cities around the country where AHF has a presence. #StandAgainstHate Community Forum set for BROOKLYN Thursday, Sept. 14th
As part of the Brooklyn #StandAgainstHate forum, the powerful Vice-TV mini-documentary, "Charlottesville: Race & Terror," documenting the events in Charlottesville will be screened, and followed by frank and open dialogue intended to explore emotions and thoughts about the current cultural strife our country is going through. AHF welcomes the public to experience this safe space as a time to heal. "AHF has always been willing to protest and stand up against injustice, and we joined with the majority of Americans in condemning the acts of violence, murder and domestic terrorism in Charlottesville," said Michael Weinstein, President of AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "However, the ongoing aftermath of Charlottesville has exposed a festering underbelly of racism, white supremacy and hatred still present, and growing-and now, sadly, far more exposed and open in the sunlight than ever before. These events have led us to moral turning point for our nation and we must all stand up against such hate." The primary target of the hate groups in Virginia-racial and ethnic minorities-are also among key populations that AHF cares for and serves in 14 states and the District of Columbia across the country and 38 other countries around the globe. "In addition, as a provider of care and services for those living with HIV and AIDS, stigma and hate are bad for people's physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing," added AHF's Weinstein. "And as one cannot really separate such social determinants from the environment, we must #StandAgainstHate and against this newly brazen racism and white supremacy infecting our nation." About AIDS Healthcare Foundation AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, currently provides medical care and/or services to more than 804,000 individuals in 39 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific Region and Eastern Europe. To learn more about AHF, please visit our website: www.aidshealth.org, find us on Facebook (News - Alert): www.facebook.com/aidshealth and follow us on Twitter (News - Alert): @aidshealthcare. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170913006573/en/ |