Important Announcements

CURRENT INFORMATION: go to our Facebook group "Waco Friends of the Climate." 1) Beginning Jan. 2025, our focus has been on resistance to Donald Trump, since his policies are our greatest threat to the climate. Thus, we are not having monthly meetings at this time. We hope to hold monthly meetings in the future. Visit our Facebook group for current activities, Waco Friends of the Climate. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330231820335851 2) Our role in the resistance includes a weekly protest at the pedestrian bridge in Waco, Valley Mills Dr. & Bagby Avenue, each Sunday, 1:00pm-2:30pm. We began the protest in March 2025 and it has been carried on weekly for over one year. We provide huge, highly visible banners. Please join us. RESISTING FASCISM, ONE SUNDAY AT A TIME. 3) Because of the sad passing of our webmaster, Harrison Ward, we have not been able to keep the website up to date. For the most current information, please visit our Facebook group, Waco Friends of the Climate : https://www.facebook.com/groups/1330231820335851 4) To join our email list and be informed of actions, activities, and campaigns, email our Director Alan Northcutt at anorthc@aol.com 5)Free "climate crisis is here" yard signs may be obtained by emailing anorthc@aol.com. Delivery of signs is available. Help raise awareness of the climate crisis, deeply needed in Waco. 6) Winners of the "Sixth Annual Climate Crisis Art Exhibit" may be found in the Archives, April 2023. Some incredible climate art may be viewed.

Progressive Film Series: April 11, 2013

HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE 

THURSDAY, APRIL 11TH
POPPA ROLLO'S PIZZA
WEST-BANK MEETING ROOM
703 N.VALLEY MILLS, WACO
6 PM: PIZZA & BUSINESS
6:30:  FILM & DISCUSSION
RUNTIME: 120 MINUTES

The Friends of Peace always attempts to present the newest, most important documentaries available for our educational effort in Waco.  Thus, we are excited to screen the 2012 film HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE, the story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of the AIDS epidemic.  This documentary contains incredible footage from the actual events, not the usual interview format.  It details how an improbable group of activists (including Act Up and TAG) bucked oppression and infiltrated government agencies and the pharmaceutical industry, helping to identify promising new medications and treatments--and thereby saved their own lives and ended the darkest days of the AIDS plague.

Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary

Winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award

"Extraordinary. One of the most important documentaries in years or decades."
    -- Salon

Email to anorthc@aol.com to be placed on the Friends of Peace email list.

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