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"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
Nutty comments like that discredit your group If you have an issue with poverty in Africa or drug companies being greedy and pols crooked, that's one thing.
But to make up figures and state things like &...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 5:27pm PST
if malnutrition is causing deaths What ACT-UP and other AIDS dissidents are saying is that the thousands of deaths in Africa attributed to HIV/AIDS are in reality a result of malnutrition and ot...
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 5:16pm PST
World AIDS Day: A Look at the Fight Against the Global Pandemic The 18th annual World AIDS Day was observed yesterday around the theme "Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise." The World Health Organization estimates that 3.1 million people worldwide will die of AIDS this year including 500,000 children and a recent UN AIDS report showed that the number of people living with HIV has topped 40 million for the first time. We speak with the Center for Health and Gender Equity....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:08am PST
Malnutrition won't be solved by pharmaceuticals The symptoms of malnutrition and poverty are often misdiagnosed as HIV/AIDS. The symptoms are nearly identical and malnutrition and poverty also weaken the huma...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 8:01pm PST
Human Rights Watch Calls for Increased Support, Protections for Global AIDS Activists ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 6:39am PST
Battle rages vs. budget cuts 300,000 each month to lose food stamps under GOP scrooge plan...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 5:39pm PST
Eviction Moratorium Stalls Rush of Evictions in New Orleans As we pull up to the apartment complex in a neighborhood East of New Orleans, all Diane's belongs are being thrown from her second story window. A worker in a forklift hauls her belongings to the street, dumping Diane's lifelong belongings on the curb. This is a common sight in New Orleans where evictions are increasing and what little rights tenants have are being ignored....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:08pm PST
HIV/Aids invades Africa's last uninfected outpost in Sudan HIV/Aids has penetrated southern Sudan, the last untouched pocket of Africa, threatening an isolated and uninformed people with disaster, health experts warned yesterday, the eve of World Aids Day....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:06pm PST
Smoke Signals: Rebellion of the Periphery The young French of North African descent are outraged over a policy of transforming labor markets into slave markets that began in the EU.. Being a slave has already become a privilege.. The United States of Amnesia, the empire of shame, should promote social human rights and human dignity....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 5:46am PST
Homeless People and Religious Leaders to Sleep Out at City Hall 
Religious leaders and concerned San Franciscans will join homeless people to brave the cold this Thursday, spending the night out in front of City Hall to highlight the coming cold months that will affect the thousands of people citywide currently living without a home....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 7:41am PST
50,000 Katrina evacuees without permanent housing More than 50,000 people are still living in hotel rooms three months since the devastating consequences of Hurricane Katrina displaced as many as one million people. The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is currently funding hotel stays for the evacuees who have not been able to find housing. After the next round of deadlines, FEMA will no longer pay the hotel bills....
Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 6:32am PST
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