If public money had been used to provide syringes to drug addicts, to give them more information about prevention, at schools, in the mass media, everything would be different.
It is not only mourning, it is to say that people cannot keep on dying. The dead people’s ashes that we are bringing are not a symbol, they are the people who have died, they are to remind us that we need more support for research in every area. Millions of people All over the world are dying of AIDS and something must be done to find a cure.
By bringing our dead ones to the door of the White House, we urge the government to start an action plan against AIDS. There has never existed a plan since the beginning of the crisis, it is high time we have one. We are here to send a message, whoever it is who inhabits the White House in 1997, that person should be in charge of supplying health aid to the millions of people all over the world who are dying of AIDS and to do something to find a cure.