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| The US Global AIDS Plan | MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Students and Community Groups Protest Republican Eric Cantor at Harvard University: Groups warn that Republican budget cuts could cause more than 1 million deaths across globe (Cambridge, MA, Thursday, 24 February) Students from Harvard, Wellesley, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia and the New School, along with people living with AIDS and representatives from community groups from New York City to Boston, will stage a demonstration at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government this evening to protest the US House of Representatives’ slashing of the budget for global health for the current fiscal year. The demonstration coincides with a visit to Harvard by Republican House Majority Leader Representative Eric Cantor, who has been an outspoken proponent of radical cuts in all domestic discretionary funding since the Republicans took over the House in January. “We’re protesting Eric Cantor’s visit because he is directly responsible for gutting $1.5 billion from global health programs from the level proposed by the President, including an $813 million cut from 2010 levels for global AIDS programs,” said Harvard student, Alyssa Yamamoto. This past weekend, the House of Representatives voted to dramatically roll back funding levels for many domestic and international programs in the fiscal year 2011 Continuing Resolution, which now heads to the Senate. These cuts, if enacted, would result in:
“The Republicans in the House have decided to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and vulnerable in the USA and around the world, after doling out tax cuts to their millionaire friends over the holidays,” said Amirah Sequeira, from Columbia University. Leading global health and AIDS organizations, including the American Foundation for AIDS Research, have warned about the devastating effects of the cuts should the Senate follow the House’s lead, even in part. “Just as the world has begun to make progress on AIDS, Mr. Cantor and his cronies are playing politics with people’s lives. It’s the Tea Party fanatics,not serious economics, that are driving these cuts, cuts that will lead to the deaths of millions of men, women and children around the world,” said David Carel from Yale University. The students, all from the national Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC), promise to continue to protest Republican officials at their public appearances until they rescind their cuts to global health programs. The students are heading to New Hampshire next month to confront Republican Presidential candidates on the campaign trail. Last year, students from SGAC protested President Obama’s flat funding for AIDS in demonstrations in Philadelphia, New York, New Haven, Bridgeport and Boston. “We’ve got [END] The Student Global AIDS Campaign is a project of Health GAP. For more information, go to studentglobalaidscampaign.org. |
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