The Government Has Blood on Its Hands / One AIDS Death Every Half Hour

Sticker version of an iconic AIDS activist graphic produced by Gran Fury for ACT UP/ New York in 1988: a bloody red handprint accompanied by forceful texts blaming government in­ac­tion for the deadly toll of the AIDS crisis.

The strip of three crack-and-peel stickers offered here tells a partic­ularly poign­ant story: Each graphic is revised in marker pen to reflect the tripling of the death rate by 1990, changing "One AIDS Death Every Half Hour" to "Three AIDS Deaths Every Half Hour."

As noted in a June 21, 1990, story in The New York Times, the marked-up version was distributed by protestors at the massive demonstrations held in con­junc­­tion with the Sixth International Conference on AIDS in San Francisco in June 1990.

CONDITION: Minor yellowing to margins of backing; stickers detaching slightly from backing; each sticker hand revised in black and dark-blue marker.