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Hip-Hop Predicted Liquor Store Trashings Long Ago
Hip hop musicians have long addressed -- and frequently profited from -- liquor sales in impoverished black neighborhoods. PNS contributor Adisa Banjoko is a lecturer and author of the upcoming book "Lyrical Swords Vol. 2: Westside Rebellion." For more information visit http://www.lyricalswords.com....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:51am PST
The spatial dynamics of violence and alcohol outlets.
Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, California 94704, USA. rlipton@prev.org
OBJECTIVE: This study examines whether the association between violence and pop...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:07pm PST
Research links density of alcohol outlets to local levels of harm
Linda Hill
New geo-spatial research methods are improving our understanding of how local environments shape the level of alcohol-related problems experienced...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:09pm PST
Blah, blah, blah
The issue here is not alcohol or where its sold. The issue is the use of force to cram religious practices down the throats of the unwilling. What these wannabe...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:34pm PST
Listening
I think what many of us are trying to say (and proving, by the way) is that this is a larger issue than just what happened with the store. Most of the people in...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 4:43pm PST
Liquor store
No one is forcing you to buy or drink liquor. The liquor stores are there because there is a demand for them in the 'hood. If no one bought liquor, the store ...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 1:33pm PST
not so simple. it's bigger than market forces
"The liquor stores are there because there is a demand for them"
the liquor stores are there because there is nothing else. there is certainly str...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 1:47pm PST
"need"
that's a separate issue, and not germane to the issue at hand. The lack of, oh say, organic vegetable buyers coops, or even of Safeways, is not caused by presen...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 5:24pm PST
yep
"West Oakland doesn't "need" any liquor stores. Need is not the deciding factor. Want is the deciding factor. Obviously enough people in West Oak...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 5:31pm PST
Back to the original article
I'm not sure why indybay censored my comments here but I'll repeat them.
This article was bad. It didn't address a main issue of who the culprits were. The a...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 6:44pm PST
"According to this logic, West Oaklanders also 'want' run-down housing."
This is an invalid analogy. Liquor is not housing, nor do they equate in any way except for both being commodities. People who live in run down housing do so, ...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 9:45pm PST
sadf
"I say this as a guy who himself lives in run down housing, precisely because it is so cheap, and shops at the place on the corner precisely because it is ...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 10:06pm PST
dead
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
-dead kennedys
it's the american way. poverty ain't shit if you got a store, any old store,...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 11:48pm PST
"poverty ain't shit if you got a store, any old store, nearby"
That's a straw man. Nobody here claimed any such thing, neither is it relevant. Convenience stores do not cause poverty. Au contrair, they alleviate at least on...
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 11:22am PST
BTL:Poor New Orleans Residents Struggle to Have Their Say on...
...City's Reconstruction ~ Interview with Steve Bradberry, lead New Orleans organizer with ACORN, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 6:16am PST
Profit-driven Medicare drug plan stirs confusion and anger
Registration for Medicare new prescription drug plan opened November 15, provoking widespread anger and confusion among its potential beneficiaries. The drug benefit, also known as Medicare Part D, is a government-subsidized, privatized insurance program that covers a portion of prescription drug costs....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 9:05am PST
12/5 in Oakland: Come help "Move the Movement" for Transportation Justice
December 5th, 2005, 4:00-5:30pm Frank Ogawa Plaza (in front of City Hall) Broadway & 14th Street, Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 1:47pm PST
CDC: AIDS the Leading Cause of Death Among African American Women Aged 25-44
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 68% of women who contract AIDS are black. The CDC also reported AIDS was a leading cause of death among black women ages 25 to 44. We speak with the National Coalition of One Hundred Black Women....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:09am PST
America's Racist HIV Myth
AIDS in Africa
Unlike in the United States, AIDS in Africa is most frequently diagnosed based on four very imprecise clinical symptoms--diarrhea, fever, pers...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 5:00pm PST