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Positive Women’s Network – USA Hits the (Virtual) Road for Our First-Ever Leading with Love Tour

Join PWN’s regional chapters and state leads to meet the women and trans folks living with HIV leading the way in their communitiesJuly 23, 2021: Everyone in the HIV community knows that the women and trans folks of Positive Women’s [...]

2021-07-23T19:11:05-07:00July 23rd, 2021|Organizing Tools, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Positive Women’s Network – USA Hits the (Virtual) Road for Our First-Ever Leading with Love Tour

Organizing Spotlight: Organizing for Power Teams Head to Atlanta for Electoral Organizing Bootcamp

October 24, 2019: This is really happening! PWN-USA is going on the road to Atlanta, Georgia, for our in-person electoral organizing bootcamp starting this Sunday, October 27! Teams from 11 key geographic locations who are part of PWN’s cutting-edge new [...]

2019-10-23T21:07:44-07:00October 24th, 2019|electoral organizing, Organizing Tools, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Organizing Spotlight: Organizing for Power Teams Head to Atlanta for Electoral Organizing Bootcamp

You’re invited to the PWN Block Party summer webinar series!

Calling advocates and organizers for a Summer Saturdays brunch-time web-based training series sponsored by Positive Women’s Network - USA. BYOB! Register here! Organizing is a long term approach to developing power as a community. It looks beyond policy campaigns, election cycles, [...]

2019-06-03T23:02:15-07:00June 3rd, 2019|Organizing Tools|10 Comments

PWN Unveils “Claim Your Seat at the Table! A How-To Guide to Advocacy for People Living with HIV.”

**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**Contact: Jennie Smith-Camejo, 347.553.5174, jsmithcamejo(at)pwn-usa.orgDesigned as a comprehensive, multimedia how-to guide and toolkit, it starts with the basics while offering resources and tips for seasoned advocates. January 24, 2019: Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is proud to roll [...]

2019-01-24T21:45:33-08:00January 24th, 2019|advocacy, Criminalization, Organizing Tools|Comments Off on PWN Unveils “Claim Your Seat at the Table! A How-To Guide to Advocacy for People Living with HIV.”

Our Resistance Recess Toolkit Has Lots of Ideas and Resources to Take Action This August Recess!

August 8: We did it! Through people power, we killed the efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act! At least for now, and just by one vote. We have lots of work ahead of us. All members of Congress are home for the August [...]

PWN-USA and SERO Project Announce 2018 HIV Is Not a Crime National Training Academy in Indianapolis

         FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ken Pinkela: [email protected] or Jennie Smith-Camejo: [email protected] May 15, 2017:  Building on the amazing success of the HIV Is Not a Crime II National Training Academy last year, the SERO Project and Positive Women’s Network-USA are pleased [...]

2017-11-29T21:59:39-08:00May 15th, 2017|Criminalization, Organizing Tools, Uncategorized|Comments Off on PWN-USA and SERO Project Announce 2018 HIV Is Not a Crime National Training Academy in Indianapolis

Five Weeks Until Huntsville! Register NOW for the HIV Is Not a Crime II National Training Academy

April 11, 2016: The HIV is Not a Crime II Training Academy will be held at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, May 17 – 20, 2016 – you can still register to be part of this transformative advocacy training experience! Join co-organizers PositiveWomen’s Network [...]

2017-11-30T23:46:45-08:00April 11th, 2016|Black Lives Matter, Criminalization, HIV epidemic, human rights, Organizing Tools, PLHIV Sexuality, Prevention Justice, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Five Weeks Until Huntsville! Register NOW for the HIV Is Not a Crime II National Training Academy

"We Gonna Be Alright": An HIV Activist at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening

By Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Director of Regional Organizing   Introduction Waheedah Shabazz-El. “Unapologetically Black” was a major theme amongst more than 1,500 Black activists and organizers in attendance at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening, held [...]

“We Gonna Be Alright”: An HIV Activist at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening

By Waheedah Shabazz-El, PWN-USA Director of Regional Organizing   Introduction Waheedah Shabazz-El. “Unapologetically Black” was a major theme amongst more than 1,500 Black activists and organizers in attendance at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening, held [...]

2017-12-01T16:27:47-08:00August 10th, 2015|Black Lives Matter, Criminalization, Economic Justice, HIV epidemic, human rights, Intersectionality, Organizing Tools, Prevention Justice, Stigma, Trans Justice, Violence|Comments Off on “We Gonna Be Alright”: An HIV Activist at the 1st National Movement for Black Lives Convening

#HIVisNOTaCrime in Texas or Anywhere: Urgent Help Request

This piece is adapted from a version originally posted on Advocacy Without Borders’ blog. WE NEED YOUR HELP. BADLY. I have written before about HIV criminalization, here and here. Most recently, though, when I have written about it I have [...]

2015-05-18T10:45:19-07:00May 18th, 2015|Criminalization, HIV epidemic, human rights, Organizing Tools, PWN-USA regional organizing, Stigma, Uncategorized|Comments Off on #HIVisNOTaCrime in Texas or Anywhere: Urgent Help Request

PWN-USA’s 2014 – 2016 Strategic Plan

Every day, PWN-USA inspires, informs and mobilizes women living with HIV to advocate for changes that improve our lives and uphold our rights.  In 2013, we went through an extensive strategic planning process and listened to hundreds of stakeholders.  Over [...]

Stop the ADAP Crisis! An interview with Pat Kelly and Bonetta Graves from South Carolina

By Sonia Rastogi – The AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), is a safety net that provides life-saving medications to people living with HIV. Due to a funding crisis, as of September 2010, 3,441 people are on waiting lists to access [...]

2011-07-13T11:55:03-07:00July 13th, 2011|Access to Care, HIV epidemic, Organizing Tools|Comments Off on Stop the ADAP Crisis! An interview with Pat Kelly and Bonetta Graves from South Carolina
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