Schwarzenegger under fire. ‘Hundreds’ looks like an understatement to me.
Watch closely (video: ABC News Los Angeles)

According to ACT UP/Los Angeles’ Peter Cashman, on Tuesday night approximately 800 people marched from Pershing Square to the Ronald Reagan Building in Downtown Los Angeles to protest Governor Schwarzenegger’s cuts to Califorrnia’s AID/HIV programs and services. As mentioned in the video, AIDS Project Los Angeles intends to file a lawsuit against the Governor, on the ground that his line-item vetoes of the state Legislature’s July budget revision bill are unconstitutional.

APLA Executive Director Craig E. Thompson said, “APLA’s programs — including those that provide in-home care to seriously ill, HIV-positive L.A. County residents and those that offer HIV prevention education to Angelenos at highest risk of HIV infection — stand to lose a total of more than $1.8 million as a result of Schwarzenegger’s cuts. The agency is the hardest hit statewide.”

Here are, via the So-Called Homosexual Agenda, some additional photos of the march:

• http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/08/229523.php
• http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/08/229543.php
• http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/08/229563.php