Join us! We include groups ranging from Amnesty International to ACT UP, from the Student Global AIDS Campaign to GAPIMNYC, for gay Asian New Yorkers.Domestic as well as international AIDS activists are also involved.

In the past month in China, a diverse, historic coalition of AIDS and pro- democracy activists, and the lawyers that defend them in the Chinese legal system, have been beaten, harassed, and ultimately kidnapped (or as they say in China, "detained") by the government for organizing their own symbolic hunger strikes to protest government repression of activists. At the same time, dozens of people with AIDS were held under house arrest to prevent them from reaching delegates during the just ended People's Congress.

This is a simple, powerful action (and should be fun, with all the groups involved). To participate, all you need is your self, a sign (we can send you Chinese text) explaining your views, and access to a reliable digital camera--there will be one at each action. If you want, you can bring yourorganization's banner or other visuals. We will photograph our actions, send them to reporters, post them online and distribute them via Chinese language list servs so that Chinese government, the press, and people with AIDS themselves will understand that there is international solidarity with people with AIDS in China. We will be both a real and an online solidarity action.

We demand the unconditional release of Hu Jia and an end to the repression against people with AIDS, AIDS activists, and other groups trying to make peaceful change in China.

For more information, email aidspolicyproject@hotmail.com, call +1 215-939-7852. You can also go to www.aidspolicyproject.org to sign up for the action or to sign a letter on this issue for President Hu.

In great solidarity,

Katie Krauss

Address of Chinese Consulate in New York:520 12TH AVENUE, NEW YORK NY 10036, USA

Address of Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC:

2300 CONNECTICUT AVENUE, N.W., WASHINGTON D.C. 20008(Near DuPont Circle) (boxun.com)