Issue and Opponent: During Bill Clinton’s Administration in 1992-1996, AIDS killed over 200,000 Americans. Despite posing as the defender of people with AIDS, Bill Clinton broke most of his 1992 promises on AIDS, made during the presidential campaign 1992. Rather than offer the “loud, clear and consistent leadership” that he pledged, Clinton did just what he condemned Bush for: allowing the AIDS Commission recommendations, with few exceptions to “collect dust.” In their report released in July 1996, Clinton’s own Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS expressed “grave concern” that Clinton’s federal HIV prevention strategy is “underdeveloped and timid.” Dilemma Action: Inspired by the same activity organized by ACT UP in October 1992, protesters took the cremated human remains of those who were murdered by AIDS and killed by government neglect throwing the ashes onto the White House Lawn. Protesters marched from the Capitol Building to the White House lawn. After crossing a police line, David Reid scattered the ashes of his friend, Connie Norman, a radio host, and member of the LA branch of the AIDS activist group ACT UP, who had died earlier that year, on the White House Lawn. In total, 18 persons’ ashes were scattered on the White House Lawn that day, despite its being illegal to enter the White House property uninvited and the direct police opposition. Outcome: The government ignored the funerals. The Ashes Actions were not only meant to shock an uninterested public into empathy, they were meant as releases of grief for the activists themselves.