death_date death_place birth_place nationality ethnicity article_title birth_date alma_mater origin name occupation death_cause
10 may 2000 u.s. heart mountain relocation center , wyoming , u.s. american japanese american kiyoshi kuromiya
 9 may 1943 university of pennsylvania monrovia high school monrovia , california kiyoshi kuromiya author , civil and social justice advocate aids complications
kiyoshi kuromiya

kiyoshi kuromiya -lrb- may 9 , 1943 -- may 10 , 2000 -rrb- was an author and civil and social justice advocate .
he was born in a japanese american internment camp on may 9 , 1943 in heart mountain , wyoming .
he died on the night of may 10 , 2000 , due to complications from aids .
in the 1950s , steven kiyoshi kuromiya lived with his father and mother and younger sister in monrovia , california , a suburb of los angeles in the east san gabriel valley .
in 1961 , he graduated with honors from monrovia high school , where he was active in the scholarship society and the science club .
he was accepted at the university of pennsylvania .
he was a committed civil rights and anti-war activist .
he was also one of the founders of gay liberation front - philadelphia and served as an openly gay delegate to the black panther convention that endorsed the gay liberation struggle .
kuromiya was an assistant of martin luther king jr. and took care of king 's children immediately following his assassination .
to protest of the use of napalm in vietnam in 1968 , he announced that a dog would be burned alive in front of the university of pennsylvania 's van pelt library .
thousands turned up to protest , only to find a message from kuromiya : `` congratulations on your anti-napalm protest .
you saved the life of a dog .
now , how about saving the lives of tens of thousands of people in vietnam . ''
kuromiya was involved in all aspects of the aids movement , including radical direct action with act up philadelphia and the act up network , pwa empowerment and coalition-building through we the people living with hiv/aids , national and international research advocacy , and loving and compassionate mentor ship and care for hundreds of people living with hiv .
kiyoshi was the editor of the act up standard of care , the first standard of care for people living with hiv produced by pwas .
kiyoshi is perhaps best known as the founder of the critical path project , which brought the strategies and theories of his associate/mentor buckminster fuller to the struggle against aids .
the critical path newsletter , one of the earliest and most comprehensive sources of hiv treatment information , was routinely mailed to thousands of people living with hiv all over the world .
he also sent newsletters to hundreds of incarcerated individuals to insure their access to up-to-date treatment information .
critical path provides free access to the internet to thousands of people living with hiv in philadelphia and the region , hosted over a hundred aids related web pages and discussion lists , and showed a whole generation of activists and people living with hiv that the internet can be a tool for information , empowerment and organizing .
kiyoshi kuromiya was a leader in the struggle to maintain freedom of speech on the internet , participating in the successful lawsuit against the communications decency act .
kuromiya was the leading plaintiff in the supreme court case , `` kuromiya vs. the united states of america '' , calling for the legalization of marijuana for medical uses .
he was also a nationally ranked scrabble player and a master of kundalini yoga .
he was the author -lrb- as steve kuromiya -rrb- of `` 1968 collegiate guide to greater philadelphia '' -lrb- 1967 -rrb- and , with r. buckminster fuller , of `` cosmography : a posthumous scenario for the future of humanity '' -lrb- 1992 -rrb- .
