Just One…

Today is World AIDS Day.

Take a little time to reflect on what this means in this day and age, to remember those we have lost, and to make a donation (amfAR would be a good place to check out) and support AIDS research, HIV prevention, treatment education, and the advocacy of sound AIDS-related public policy (yeah…that’s their company line – and a mighty good one at that).

Meanwhile, today also marks the opening of 3 Needles, a drama that visits rural China, a plantation in South Africa, and Montreal's porn industry, to tell three separate yet universal stories, rooted to struggles with the HIV pandemic, starring Lucy Liu, Shawn Ashmore (X-Men: The Last Stand), and Chloë Sevigny.

I cannot urge you strongly enough to feel the love today, to feel just as one with everyone else in order to help heal the world. We can’t have 950 people die each day in South Africa because of HIV/AIDS, can we?

Think (RED) today. After all, aren’t we supposed to be together?

Photo: Wolfe Releasing (3 Needles).