. >>> madge it's a wednesday afternoon, just after 5:00 p.m., close of the business day.ds transiting through grand central terminal. in the huge, cavernous main terminal of grand central and like everyone, are you looking up at the arrivals board for when your train home is due. the harlem, hudson, new haven lines, metro north. and at 5:07 p.m. on a wednesday, as you and other commuters are looking up at that huge board, you are seeing a huge black banner, all of a sudden shouting activists everywhere. it says one aids death every eight minutes. january 23, 1991. the united states was at that moment in the midst of going to war in iraq and kuwait in gulf war i. and in grand central terminal the place is just taken over. this banner mounted on balloons saying money for aids, not for war, goes up to the ceiling of grand central, a huge crowd of activists there. ultimately, 263 aid activists would be arrested that day. when they moved on marching to the headquarters of the u.n., they had marched on wall street that morning. the night before, the same activists disrupted the