Editing ACT UP (section)

===Wall Street===
On March 24, 1987, 250 ACT UP members demonstrated at [[Wall Street]] and Broadway to demand greater access to experimental AIDS drugs and for a coordinated national policy to fight the disease.<ref name="ACTUPNY1">ACT UP New York: First Demonstration Flyer, [http://www.actupny.org/documents/1stFlyer.html Actupny.org]</ref>  An op-ed article by Larry Kramer published in ''[[The New York Times]]'' the previous day described some of the issues ACT UP was concerned with.<ref name="kramer1">Kramer, Larry. Interview with Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbard. ACTUP Oral History Project. February 16, 2005. MIX: The New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film Festival.  December 11, 2005, [http://www.actuporalhistory.org/interviews/images/kramer.pdf Actuporalhistory.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517152516/http://www.actuporalhistory.org/interviews/images/kramer.pdf |date=2017-05-17 }}</ref>  Seventeen ACT UP members were arrested during this [[civil disobedience]].<ref name="ACTUPNY2">ACT UP New York: Capsule History - 1987, [http://www.actupny.org/documents/cron-87.html Actupny.org]</ref>

On March 24, 1988, ACT UP returned to Wall Street for a larger demonstration in which over 100 people were arrested.<ref name="ACTUPNY3">ACT UP New York: Capsule History - 1988, [http://www.actupny.org/documents/cron-88.html Actupny.org]</ref>

On September 14, 1989, seven ACT UP members infiltrated the [[New York Stock Exchange]] and chained themselves to the VIP balcony to protest the high price of the only approved AIDS drug, [[Zidovudine|AZT]]. The group displayed a banner that read, "SELL WELLCOME" referring to the pharmaceutical sponsor of AZT, [[Burroughs Wellcome]], which had set a price of approximately $10,000 per patient per year for the drug, well out of reach of nearly all [[HIV]] positive persons. Several days following this demonstration, Burroughs Wellcome lowered the price of AZT to $6,400 per patient per year.<ref name="ACTUPNY4">ACT UP New York: Capsule History - 1989, [http://www.actupny.org/documents/cron-89.html Actupny.org]</ref>