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Tookie was a thug and a gangster of the most violent type. There are dozen’s like him on the streets and hundreds more being produced everyday. His death changes nothing. Tookie spread violence and mayhem all over the city and throughout his neighborhood. Violence and mayhem are out of control all over the city, in every neighborhood. His death changes nothing. Tookie helped to perpetuate hopelessness and despair on the streets where he lived. Hopelessness and despair have always lived on the streets of our cities and will continue to until the issues of hopelessness and despair are addressed for what they are: Hopelessness and Despair. His death changes nothing. Tookie probably directly, and without question indirectly through his actions, was responsible for countless deaths. There have been and continue to be, countless deaths caused by gang violence and criminal activity. People who will never exist again. His death changes nothing. Tookie was a symbol of viciousness and cruelty fo...

In researching Funding Access-vs.-Prevention at 14th ICASA AIDS Conference in Nigeria there was this other topic, indirectly effecting the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. Its wider effects on the world stage are equally staggering, and it effects every person on every continent to some extent. The issue is the fledgling democracy of Afghanistan and threat that the illicit opium trade poses in destabilizing the democratic process and stability in the entire region. Opium is bleeding Afghanistan of its chances of democracy. Go anywhere in southern Kandahar, Afghanistan (the former spiritual stronghold of the Taliban) and you’ll run in to poppy fields. Drive 20 minutes in any direction and you’ll find farmers busy harvesting their crop, in spite of the Interim Authority's January 2002 ban in on poppy cultivation. An estimated 1.7 million people are directly involved in opium production, as widespread and family-based poppy cultivation proliferates in 28 of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. ...

Funding Access-vs.-Prevention at 14th ICASA AIDS Conference in Nigeria I was talking with a friend last night and discussing the current state of engagement (or lack there of) of the world in addressing the AIDS pandemic that is brutalizing a third of the worlds population either directly through infection or indirectly through the suffering of those who love them. It was time to look in to this. What the heck is going on? Where are the millions that are promised? This was a day of days to ask that question. December 7 can be known again as a day that will live in infamy for a more recent, but as shameless act. With all its pseudo- compassion and promises the “help is on the way” The Bush Administration is again showing it’s true colors. In Abuja, Nigeria this week, a six-day conference known as the 14th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa , is being attended by about 7,500 representatives from around the world, a majority of them from African...