ACT UP New York Archived Websites
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Abstract
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was founded to address the medical establishment and government's unresponsiveness to the AIDS pandemic in March 1987. The organization is committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis by bringing about legislation, medical research, treatment, and policies to bring an end to the disease. The websites contain news, a timeline and history of the organization; information on their weekly Monday meetings; information on actions and demonstrations dating back to 1999 to 2017; zines and other organizing documents; treatment information; and information on DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) and YELL (Youth Education Life Line).
Historical Note
In March 1987, ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was founded at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center to address the medical establishment and government's unresponsiveness to the AIDS pandemic. That month, they held their first protest and marched on Wall Street to combat the high price and unavailability of HIV treatments. Over the years, they successfully protested against pharmaceutical and health insurance companies, local and national politicians, the Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the Catholic Church, and other organizations to get acknowledgement of the crisis, better access to a diversity of treatments, and funding for AIDs education and drugs. The organization continues to be active as of this writing (2022) working to provide equitable access to HIV/AIDS healthcare and prevention.
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Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the websites for ACT UP New York, collected from 2008-2017. The website contains a timeline and history of the organization; information on their weekly Monday meetings; information on actions and demonstrations dating back to 1999 to 2007; zines and other organizing documents; treatment information; a t-shirt gallery; and information of the 20th anniversary commemoration of the organization. The website also has information and actions related to two affinity groups, DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) and YELL (Youth Education Life Line). Issues that the organization focused on in the 2000s included police surveillance, AIDS denialism, HIV testing, HIV/AIDS in New York State prisons,George W. Bush and Republication politician attacks on HIV/AIDS education and prevention, international AIDS conferences, HIV immigration and travel ban, AIDS activism in China, high drug prices, and promotion of media related to ACT UP.
In 2015 they stopped actively updating https://actupny.org/ and mostly updated at http://actupny.com/actions/. In addition to news and press releases dating back to 2009, the website mostly has information about the Robin Hood Tax Demonstration on April 20, 2013.
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Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; ACT UP New York Archived Websites; MSS 619; Wayback URL; Fales Library, New York University.
Custodial History
http://www.actupny.org/, http://www.actupny.com/, and http://actupny.com/actions/ were initially selected by Tamiment curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in circa 2008-2013 as part of the Other Left Activism Web Archive. In November 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2015, http://actupny.com/ and http://actupny.org/ were transferred to Fales Libary.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.
Appraisal
Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of actupny.org and actupny.com in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.
Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored. Vimeo and YouTube videos were excluded from the crawl.
About this Guide
Processing Information
In 2014, http://actupny.com/actions/ was added to Tamiment Library Web Collection on Organizations (WEB ARC 003). Crawling of the websites in this collection were ceased in 2017. In 2022, archived websites associated with this collection in the Other Left Activism Web Archive were shared to the ACT UP New York Web Archive in Archive-It for access and replay purposes. This finding aid was created in Fall 2022 and description was standardized across the collection.
