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Assignment:

• If you use a quotation from one of the course resources in your answer, make sure you use quotation marks and include a reference for the source.
• Please do NOT use a quotation as your entire answer to any of these questions. Always explain in your own words.
• Please use ONLY the course resources - and your own insights and analyses - as the basis for your responses.

Critiquing Institutions: United in Anger: A History of ACT UP and AIDS activism in Canada

ACT UP, the activist organization featured in United in Anger, targeted many different social institutions in their actions, including:

• the New York Stock Exchange
• Cosmopolitan Magazine
• the Catholic Church (St Patrick's Cathedral)
• the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• the Centres for Disease Control (CDC)
• the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Choose three of the institutions listed above, and for each explain in your own words why ACT UP demonstrated against the institution. Please be specific about what motivated each protest, and about the goals of the action (demonstration).

Reference:

Hubbard, J. (Dir.). (2012). United in anger: A history of ACT UP (video).USA: The Ford Foundation and The New York State Council on the Arts.

Houston, A. (2012, December 3). How AIDS activists changed Canadian health policy. Xtra.