Tag archive for advocacy

thoughts on How to Survive a Plague

A few of the Aggregate team members recently got the chance to attend a screening of How to Survive a Plague, a documentary about the AIDS activist movement in

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finding new TB vaccines

Aeras  is striving to research and develop new tools and strategies for diagnosing, treating and preventing tuberculosis in the developing world. Prior to launching Aggregate, Alison Byrne Fields worked

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the campaign

The Campaign, directed by Christie Herring, is a documentary film about the volunteers who worked to stop Proposition 8, the 2008 California ballot proposition that took away the right to

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true/false film fest

Aggregate is partnering with the True/False Film Fest — which has become one of the country’s premiere documentary film festivals over the past ten years — to develop a storytelling

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take a stand

We are inspired by the work of our peers — and our heroes — in advocacy communications. This piece, which aims to compel people to recognize they are personally

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an iPhone and good intentions won’t cut it

I am currently in Gainesville at the University of Florida. I am here for the next few days as a Visiting Hearst Professional, which sounds slightly more impressive than

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