Following a general assembly last Saturday, the management team of the association for the fight against AIDS Act-Up Paris resigned. According to her, the success of the film “120 beats per minute” has brought on a generation of “politicized activists”.
This is an unexpected consequence of the film 120 beats per minute, one of the biggest cinematographic successes of the last year and recently awarded six Césars, including that of the best film. On Saturday March 31, the management team of Act-Up Paris, the association for the fight against AIDS at the heart of feature films, resigned.
???? Following the extraordinary general assembly which was held this Saturday March 31, a new team has just been elected to the board of directors of@actupparis pic.twitter.com/DGqkMMPVUY
– Act Up-Paris (@actupparis) March 31, 2018
In a press release, the outgoing team explains that after a difficult period, when the association had even been placed in receivership (in 2014), the release of the film caused a wave of arrivals. With, among them, “young activists already politicized and experienced in other struggles, especially anti-racists”. The two former co-presidents, Rémy Hamai and Mikaël Zenouda as well as the former vice-president Xavier Coeur-Jolly assert that they “hijack and exploit the Act-Up tool, using its history, to highlight before other struggles “.
A new team
The old team, “sickened to the point of resigning” was replaced at the end of a general assembly by a new one. Some newly elected people have been in the association for a few weeks. The two new vice-presidents are Fabrice Clouzeau and Marc-Antoine Bartoli.
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