{"value"=>"<p>Following a memorial service at Judson Memorial Church in NYC on the eve of the 1992 Presidential election, more than 300 AIDS activists carry the open coffin of ACT UP member Mark Lowe Fisher (a member of the affinity group, the Marys) from Washington Square up Sixth Avenue to the New York City Republican Headquarters on West 43rd Street.</p> <p>Included at 45:00 is footage by Shraga Lev.</p> <p>\"Bury Me Furiously\" by Mark Lowe Fisher:</p> <div class=\"note\"> <p>\"I am a person with AIDS. I think about what's happened to my life since I was diagnosed over two years ago. I think about all the passion and precious time I've spent fighting this government's indifference toward me and all people with AIDS. And I realize that a lot of people out there -- gay, lesbian and straight -- still do not believe that the AIDS crisis is a political crisis.</p> <p>\"My friends and I have decided we don't want discreet memorial services. We understand our friends and families need to mourn. But we also understand that we are dying because of a government and a health care system that couldn't care less.</p> <p>I think of the late David Wojnarowicz, who wrote: 'I imagine what it would be like if friends had a demonstration each time a lover or a friend or a stranger died of AIDS. I imagine what it would be like if, each time a lover, friend or stranger died of this disease, their friends, lovers or neighbors would take the dead body and drive with it in a car a hundred miles an hour to Washington D.C. and blast though the gates of the White House and come to a screeching halt before the entrance and dump their lifeless form on the front steps.'</p> <p>\"These words sharpen my thoughts and plan. I have decided that when I die I want my fellow AIDS activists to execute my wishes for my political funeral. I suspect -- I know -- my funeral will shock people when it happens. We Americans are terrified of death. Death takes place behind closed doors and is removed from reality, from the living. I want to show the reality of my death, to display my body in public; I want the public to bear witness. We are not just spiraling statistics; we are people who have lives, who have purpose, who have lovers, fiends and families. And we are dying of a disease maintained by a degree of criminal neglect so enormous that it amounts to genocide.</p> <p>\"I want my death to be as strong a statement as my life continues to be. I want my own funeral to be fierce and defiant, to make the public statement that my death from AIDS is a form of political assassination. \"</p> <p>\"We are taking this action out of love and rage.\"</p> <p>Mark Lowe Fisher November 17, 1953 -- October 29, 1992</p></div>"}