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CITY : 38 AIDS Activists Are Arrested

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FROM TIMES WIRE SERVICES

Thirty-eight chanting AIDS activists were arrested today for disrupting a Board of Supervisors meeting, the latest in a series of protests designed to pressure the county to increase AIDS-related services.

The 26 men and 12 women arrested during the boisterous, but otherwise peaceful, 20-minute protest were the most arrested since 27 AIDS activists were arrested May 24 for a similar protest before the board.

Both demonstrations were organized by the militant AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power-Los Angeles, which has been holding protests at the board’s weekly meetings for the last few months in anticipation of next week’s budget deliberations.

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