Charles Witt Speaks From His Heart…

Posted by The AAC Staff on November 13, 2009

Background

On August 4, 2009, Charles “Chuck” Witt, and a few other patients from AAC – Apothecary’s Assistants Collective, went to the city council meeting to try and prevent the city of Signal Hill from closing the collective in the next day or two…

We stopped them from closing us that week, but within a few months we moved very close-by in Long Beach – a much more progressive city, and where I live and do my art.

A Very Sad Note

Our collective member and terminal cancer patient Charles “Chuck” Witt, who appears in this video, passed away at 10:30pm on October 30, 2009 – less than three months after this city council meeting. We miss him very much…

Our collective provided free medicine to Mr. Witt, and we will be setting up a Terminal Patient Fund in his honor to keep providing free medicine to our terminal patients.

More information about this will be posted here once plans are finalized.

In The District Weekly…

The District Weekly – Mowed Down by Greggory Moore
http://thedistrictweekly.com/2009/print/news/mowed-down/

You can find posts about the story here

A Little Tuesday Night Social Activism

http://aacollective.com/inside/2009/08/03/a-little-tuesday-night-social-activism/

Photos From Our Visual Demonstration at City Hall

http://aacollective.com/inside/2009/08/05/photos-from-our-visual-demonstration-at-city-hall/

note on video quality
This video was made from a video capture from the Signal Hill city website, where you can find the complete meeting video: http://cityofsignalhill.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=157

…you can find this clip around the 1 hour 12 minute point.