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{"value"=>"01276-A", "type"=>"local_mss_av"}
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{"value"=>"1990 Sep 16-18", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1990-09-16/1990-09-18"}
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1990
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1990
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1990-09-16
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1990-09-16
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1990-09-18
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{"value"=>"ACT UP Quack-Busters Demonstration"}
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{"value"=>"<p>ACT UP chapters converged on Kansas City to demonstrate against a conference of so-called \"Quack-Busters\" who were opposed the use of \"alternative\" treatments.</p> <p>Includes ACT UP protests in front of the conference; civil disobedience (with police responses); conference excerpts and interviews with conference organizers; interviews with AIDS activists; response to questions by visiting Surgeon General Antonia Novella; and beginning of ACT UP's post-action meeting. This is the first AIDS video documentation by James Wentzy, originally screened at an ACT UP / DIVA TV screening benefit.</p> <p>[from the ACT UP Capsule History: ]</p> <div class=\"note\"> <p> September 16-18, 1990 ACT UP/NY's Alternative and Holistic Treatment Committee coordinates the National Action for Freedom of Treatment Choice, along with 11 other ACT UP chapters, to protest in Kansas City, MO. Demonstrations and civil disobedience actions target the annual conference of the National Council Against Health Fraud, a front group for insurance companies and the AMA which publishes distorted information attacking alternative medicine and organizes legal harassment against alternative health practitioners. Twenty-three activists are arrested, the conference is disrupted, and a counter-conference is held with holistic health advocates.</p></div>"}
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00:60:00