Tony Malliaris Rap "Storm the NIH"

<BODY TEXT="#ffffff" BGCOLOR="#000022" LINK="#70fa91" ALINK="#70fa91" VLINK="#facaf5"> <P><font color="#ff9c05" size="+2" face="Arial">DIVA TV</font><font color="#ff9c05" size="+2" face="Arial">  Netcast<br> <br> </font></P> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>TONY MALLIARIS RAP</b>               </font><font size="+1" face="Skia"><b>"STORM THE NIH"</b></font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> </font></p> <div align="center"> <p><br> <object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" height="192" width="240"> <param name="href" value="http://www.actuporalhistory.org/divatv/tony_malliaris_rap.mov"> <param name="src" value="http://www.actuporalhistory.org/divatv/tony_malliaris_rap.mov"> <param name="autoplay" value="false"> <param name="controller" value="true"> <embed height="192" pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/" src="http://www.actuporalhistory.org/divatv/tony_malliaris_rap.mov" type="video/quicktime" width="240" controller="true" autoplay="false" href="http://www.actuporalhistory.org/divatv/tony_malliaris_rap.mov"> </object></p> <p><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> </font><font size="-1" color="#aaaaaa" face="Skia">QUICKTIME </font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> </font></p> </div> <p><font size="-1" color="#aaaaaa" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">PERFORMANCE FOR THE PRE-ACTION MEETING "STORM THE NIH" (National Institutes of Health)<br> <br> BY TONY MALLIARIS May 20, 1990 </font><font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> RAP: Two kinds of positive. One ain't so good. The other kind gets me through the first like I knew it could. Talking about HIV: I own it and A-C-T-U-P: you've shown it works, in any way or form, we target, we seize, tomorrow we storm. Hey, am I gettin' through to you? Because all of this, it ain't nothin' new. This is the story of a coalition, my interpretation, my rendition of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, the NIH and its final hour. [APPLAUSE] Can you say it with me? Storm the NIH. Let's go. Storm the NIH. This is war.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: For the sick.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: For the poor.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: ACT UP.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: Fight back.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: Fight AIDS.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: Check it out... One billion dollars, one AIDS drug, 10 years later, these greedy thugs say, "we're doing the best we can." Bullshit. 100,000 deaths say it best -- you're full of it. A-C-T-G it's what these fools claim to oversee -- stands for AIDS Clinical Trial Group, to test AIDS drugs, but here's the scoop, out of 101 clinical trials in place, 50 percent shove AZT in your face. Excuse me, that drug's approved. We need drugs for OI's: get busy move! In the U.S. alone, less than 5 percent of all the people with AIDS have ever spent a day in a clinical trial in this nation, the rest are denied cuz of regulation. But why should the principal investigators care? They keep the research funds, it ain't rare, no matter if a single soul is enrolled or not, the money's still theirs to keep and it's a lot. I don't know what Fauci thinks, but this ain't Denmark, and something stinks. After three and a half years of existence, there ain't much to justify subsistence. Temperatures rising, gettin' warm, the party's over, we're here to Storm the NIH, let's go. Storm the NIH. This is war.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: For the sick.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: For the pool.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: ACT UP.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: Fight back.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: Fight AIDS.<br> GROUP: Storm the NIH.<br> RAP: O.I.s -- Opportunistic Infections, ignored by committees making selections for promising drugs: they'd rather court nucleoside analogs: the AZT sort. That's why 85 percent of the subjects are sent to trials bent on testing drugs like DDI, DDC and AZT. Yah hey! But what about HIV neuropathy, fungal infection, CMV, test agents for MAI, treat Toxo now before more die. Research treatments for lymphoma, investigate Karposi's Sarcoma. Listen to the issues you can't dismiss. I shouldn't even have to be tellin' you this! And while you're at it, why don't you open the trials, cuz the line of people you refuse goes on for miles. We've got women with AIDS, believe it please. You ever heard of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease? [APPLAUSE, CHEERS]. We've got babies and children dying for drugs they helped us find -- you ain't tryin'. We've got people of color, with no where to go, do your trials address their needs? No. We've got IV drug users in need of the same as everyone else in this creed. [SPANISH] Tenemos gente que no comprenden idioma que hablo: apoyenlos -- entienden?! [APPLAUSE] [CHEERS] Is what I'm saying so out of the norm? I don't think so. And that's why we've come to Storm the NIH.<br> GROUP: STORM THE NIH. STORM THE NIH. STORM THE NIH.<br> RAP: Fight back.<br> GROUP: STORM THE NIH.<br> RAP: Fight AIDS.<br> RAP: Ladies and Gentlemen... October '88, in a serious way, we seize control of the FDA. It took too long approvin' tested drugs, respondin' with lame excuses and shrugs. Further south in Atlanta Georgia, we did a C.D. thing at the CDC because the Centers for Disease Control down there were defining AIDS like they didn't care. Now we find another kind, an Institute of Health that don't seem to mind the negligence within the system they run, but those Ivory Tower days are done. You know what's makin' the people sick besides AIDS? Bureaucracy. You know what pisses me off the most? It ain't HIV. It's hypocrisy. It seems so ironic to realize that all of these places are under the guise of the Department of Health and Human Services -- HHS -- who would have guessed? So if the quality fades a commissioner Jades or somebody grades a person with AIDS, they better change their ways, or we're on a bus -- you ever been embarrassed by a thousand of us? We're ACT UP, we demand healthcare for all, summer to spring, winter to fall. We don't act without cause, but before too long, if ACT UP's there, then something's wrong. Yeah, right? This is a trial by jury of straights and queers. We're sayin': save lives, and not careers. We're fired up for tomorrow morn. Remember, if you don't like something, change it! Storm the NIH.<br> GROUP: STORM THE NIH, STORM THE NIH, STORM THE NIH, ACT UP<br> </font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> </font></p> <blockquote> <p><font color="#aaaaaa" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><i>from the video</i> "</font><font color="#b9b9b9" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><b>Fight Back, Fight AIDS: 15 Years of ACT UP</b></font><font color="#aaaaaa" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">" <br> </font><font size="-1" color="#aaaaaa" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"> www.actupny.org/video</font><font face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular"><br> <br> </font></p> <div align="center"> <p><br> <font size="-1" face="Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular">www.actupny.org/divatv/netcasts<br> </font><br> </p> </div> </blockquote> <P><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Arial"></FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Arial"></FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="+2" FACE="Arial"></FONT></P> <P><FONT SIZE="-2"><font color="#888888"><font color="#b9ac9f"> </BODY>