Archive for October 9th, 2008
National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
4:06 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Health · No Comments
9 Oct 2008
National Institutes of Health released a statement to note National Latino AIDS Awareness Day, which will take place on October 15th. Among some of the more startling statistics:
Latinos are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS at a higher rate than every other racial or ethnic group in the United States except African-Americans. The HIV infection rate for Latinos in this country — 29.3 new cases per 100,000 people in 2006 — is nearly three times higher than for whites. Since the epidemic began, an estimated 80,690 Latinos with AIDS in the United States have died. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), joins the Latino community in mourning those who have succumbed to this terrible disease.
Furthermore, according to the press release, “four every 10 Latinos in the United States who test positive for HIV develop AIDS within a year of learning they are infected.” (I think that means four *of* every 10 Latinos) This statistic is important to know because it means that Latinos are being tested late–that is, after the disease has already progressed significantly. Which means that many of the cocktails that are available now that keep a person’s status at HIV rather than full blown AIDS, simply aren’t effective–even when they’ve been shown to extend life for many years when the disease is caught early enough.
So, what this all means is-GET TESTED! And don’t wait to get tested until you feel sick or suspect something is wrong–get tested NOW because you and your health deserve it!
Still Confused about the Economy?
3:38 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · business · No Comments
9 Oct 2008
Never you fear, La Macha has been sitting through hours and hours of television, radio shows and reading newspapers to try to figure it all out for you!
The latest greatest explanation comes from This American Life from NPR Radio in Chicago. In a show aptly entitled, “Another Frightening Show About the Economy,” Ira Glass and guests explain the latest Wall Street Freak Out (in the form of the commercial paper market) in easy to understand terminology that gets to the core of how economics in the U.S. work and why said economics in the U.S. is collapsing into hell.
I haven’t listened to the entire thing yet–the part I’m looking forward to hearing:
Act Four. What’s Next?
Ira and Adam answer the question: Was the $700 billion bailout bill signed into law today a good idea or a bad one? (10 minutes)
Some how, I think I already know the answer to this–and it’s not one I will be happy with.
NSA Wants (to listen to) Your Sex
9 Oct 2008
You may be have engaged in a phone sex threesome without your knowledge or permission for that matter.
… intercept operator, former Navy Arab linguist, David Murfee Faulk, 39, said he and his fellow intercept operators listened into hundreds of Americans picked up using phones in Baghdad’s Green Zone from late 2003 to November 2007.
“Calling home to the United States, talking to their spouses, sometimes their girlfriends, sometimes one phone call following another,” said Faulk.Faulk says he and others in his section of the NSA facility at Fort Gordon routinely shared salacious or tantalizing phone calls that had been intercepted, alerting office mates to certain time codes of “cuts” that were available on each operator’s computer.
“Hey, check this out,” Faulk says he would be told, “there’s good phone sex or there’s some pillow talk, pull up this call, it’s really funny, go check it out. It would be some colonel making pillow talk and we would say, ‘Wow, this was crazy’,” Faulk told ABC News.
Via / ABC (Gracias Nezua)
Pistolera : Policia
1:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · Music · No Comments
9 Oct 2008Pistolera, NYC based Latin alt-folklorico band, has been generating buzz with the release of a new album, a new single and a fall tour. A new music video, “Policia,” has also just been released. Shot in Brooklyn, the video parodies the true story of when singer Sandra Velasquez was arrested at the airport for traveling with a bullet decorated guitar strap.
Don’t Say I didn’t Warn You : NYPD Arresting Children in School
11:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Education| Justice| New York City| children| crime| race · 1 Comment
9 Oct 2008
Years ago, when the then NYC Board of Education School Safety Division was swallowed by the New York City Police Department, I, working in coalition with other activists, warned that this would step up the criminalization of young people, especially students of color. Since then, it’s been one I told you so moment after another, with children being illegally searched and arrested for “acting out” in class.
New York State law prohibits children younger than 16 from being arrested for minor, non-criminal violations like loitering. If a child commits a minor infraction at school, he may be disciplined, but the Family Court Act prohibits police from arresting the child. But according to NYPD data obtained in a Freedom of Information Law request, between 2005 and 2007, approximately 300 New York City public school students were illegally arrested in or on school grounds for non-criminal violations. And when the children were arrested, they were handcuffed, forcibly removed from school and taken to police precincts.
Slip of the Freudian Tongue : We are All Prisoners
8:59 am By Maegan La Mala · US Presidential Race 2008 · 1 Comment
9 Oct 2008Now, I don’t know if McCain’s slip in the video below is a reflection that he is still stuck in the past, or if it reveals his plans for the future. Either way, it gives me pause…
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