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Pifarre, Tung testified under oath, “was an Argentinean immigrant … an advocate in the San Francisco community for the Latino community … an advocate for low income and impoverished people and also for immigrants, populations that don’t often have a voice … and yes, he was gay.”
Although generally fair, the presiding commissioner, Jack Garner, has apparently lived in California too long. After Nary confessed that he had frequented prostitutes as an 18-year-old sailor, Garner asked, “On the morality scale … what was so different about the situation with Juan that caused you to do what you did?”
Nary’s appointed attorney, Gertrude Akpenyi, should have jumped up and shouted, “Outside of San Francisco, there is still a qualitative difference between soliciting a female prostitute and being anally raped by a lying, coke-crazed fat man, even if he is an advocate for the poor.”
The words from his loved ones reveal a man who struggled from the womb onward, who tried and failed time and again to free his life of drugs and crime, but who worked to better himself and the world around him, bringing joy to people in his life.
Jackson was shot and killed Nov. 20 as he drove a car on 98th Avenue. He is survived by his fiancee, Fatimah Shabazz, and her niece and nephew —
children he asked to take on as his own after Shabazz’s brother was slain in 2004.
Both police and Jackson’s loved ones said they do not know who shot Jackson, or why, but some friends suspect he’d fallen back into bad habits that would likely have put him in harm’s way.
Jackson was born to a heroin-addicted, prostitute mother 37 years ago in Oakland and had to undergo methadone treatment immediately, said Raynetta Lewis, a program coordinator at the Seventh Step Foundation in Hayward, where Jackson underwent rehabilitation as a parolee.
Again, there are drawbacks with Truvada. It costs up to $12,000 per year, though a generic knockoff made overseas costs 40 cents a day. Its beneficial powers are untested among other groups such as needle-drug uses. Also, anyone in the HIV risk category must take the pill every day. But in the desperate fight for a silver-bullet vaccine, the latest drug breakthrough is a confidence builder.
Finally, the pope’s cautious words were a stunner. The deeply conservative leader opened the door to condom use in a cautious and partial way. Benedict doesn’t support widespread use, and he doesn’t believe their use is “a real or moral solution” to the AIDS epidemic, an outspoken position that drew heavy fire when he first voiced it on a trip to Africa a year ago.
But in a worst-case situation – say, a male prostitute – condom use could improve matters and lead to a teaching moment about moral responsibility, the pope indicated. His remarks were a historic and dramatic departure from a leader known for his strict adherence to church doctrine.
The initiative is being circulated by a retired hotel credit manager, Lloyd Schofield, and needs 7,100 signatures to qualify for the ballot, a relatively easy task in a city with more than 800,000 residents. Mr. Schofield says the initiative is needed to protect children from what he calls “forced genital cutting.”
The initiative would amend San Francisco’s police code “to make it a misdemeanor to circumcise, excise, cut or mutilate the foreskin, testicle or penis of another person who has not attained the age of 18.” Violations would result in a $1,000 fine.
Those familiar with such ballot questions say the initiative stands virtually no chance of passing and is destined to become the latest measure to bring ridicule to San Francisco, like the failed 2008 proposition that would have barred the police from enforcing laws against prostitution.
What’s playing in Marin for the week of Nov. 26, 2010
Compiled by Nick BensenMarin Independent Journal
Posted: 11/26/2010 10:00:00 AM PST
opening friday
“BURLESQUE” HH (PG-13) Century Larkspur Landing, Century Northgate, Century Rowland Plaza, Tiburon Playhouse. Christina Aguilera plays the proverbial small-town girl from Iowa who gets on a bus and travels to Los Angeles hoping for stardom. She finds it in the Burlesque Lounge, a Sunset Strip club run by Cher. With a cornball story to showcase their musical numbers, it’s a cheesy entertainment of interest primarily because of the embedded music videos. From Roger Ebert. 116 minutes.
“FASTER” HH1/2
(R) Century Northgate. A pure thriller, all blood, no frills, in which a lot of people get shot, mostly in the head. Dwayne Johnson stars as Driver, a just-released prisoner working his way down a hit …
Vallejo neighborhood battles ‘plague of prostitutes‘
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Mackenzie told the council increased prostitution is a sign of reduced law enforcement in the city, and that the practice leads to further quality-of-life problems.
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Fellow Kentucky Street homeowner Ruth Rooney said prostitutes, pimps and johns have “taken over our neighborhood.”
“Instead of us enjoying a nice walk in the sunshine, we fear for our personal safety,” Rooney told the council. “We’re here to ask you, as people in charge of our city, to come up with a long-term strategy for a permanent solution to this plague of
prostitutes.”
In an interview Friday, Rooney said she and neighbors are in the process of forming a local neighborhood watch group and are lobbying to bring the prostitution issue back to the council as an agenda item, where it can be discussed by city leaders.
On a cold and sunny morning in late November, as sharp winds stirred up fallen leaves, and most folks were beginning to slow down in anticipation of Thanksgiving, Shing Ma “Steve” Li, a 20-year-old nursing student from San Francisco who narrowly avoided deportation to Peru, whipped the local media into a energized frenzy by advocating for the passage of the DREAM Act during a press conference at the Asian Law Caucus, whose offices sits close to the Transamerica Pyramid, and a stone’s throw from the lantern-decorated streets of Chinatown and the neon-lit strip clubs of North Beach, in San Francisco.
The purpose of the press conference was to give thanks for Li’s release four days earlier from a federal detention facility in Arizona, outline why a hardworking student who has lived in San Francisco since he was 12, has no criminal record, and speaks Cantonese, English, French and Spanish, was incarcerated for two months and threatened with deportation. And ultimately, the event was aimed to stir up support for the DREAM ((Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) Act, bi-partisan legislation that leading congressional Democrats plan to put to a vote this month.
West U resident Lynn Zeid, 40, Director of Development for the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, filed a lawsuit on Nov. 23 in the Harris County District Court against West U. physical therapist Terri Lyn West alleging defamation per se.
Zeid says that after her friendship with West ended, West started spreading false rumors about her among their mutual friends and on the social networking site Facebook.
According to the suit, West posted statements on Facebook suggesting Zeid was guilty of criminal and immoral activity. The posts allegedly included statements referring to Zeid as, “Strippatella” and as a “gold digger.”
The brief states that in addition to calling Zeid a prostitute on more than one occasion, West also allegedly said Zeid was a bad mother. Zeid said she has suffered shame, mortification, mental suffering and anguish dues to West’s statements.
A 2,000-seat theater would bring in big Broadway-type
shows and bring people from all over the Bay Area to the Livermore Valley and surrounding areas, thus, boosting the economy in our backyard. So if you are not already, you must get behind this project and see what you can do to make it happen.
The arts are very important to society and should be supported!
Joseph Brunicardi
Pleasanton
California mess
I feel I have to share with your readers some excerpts from an oped piece in The Wall Street Journal on Nov. 8. The piece, written by Allysia Finley, an assistant editor of Opinionjournal.com, is entitled “California: The Lindsay Lohan
of States.”
How’s this for an opening statement (by the way, the “you” is the state or people of California): “You’re the Lindsay Lohan of states: a prima dona who once showed some talent but is now too wasted to do anything with it.” Or this: “Your government’s run by a brothel of environmentalists, lawyers, public-sector unions and legislative bums.”
… The greatest feature of the whole place is the view in this next room,” he said. “Where in the western United States can you get a view like this. Half a billion dollars in boats sitting outside your window. … we have it right here.”
England said he often gives tours of the historic house at 1 Kentucky St., because it is so
visible.
“We get a lot of lookie-lous,” England said. “This one (gets a lot of attention) because it’s so visible. People call up all the time, they live in Oakland, they live in San Francisco, because they want to live there. Then they hear the rent.”
Proposals have run the gamut, England said, but few have come with a solid business plan. A sampling includes a massage parlor, hair salon, church startup, restaurant, Contra Costa County’s parolees, and bed and breakfast and event center.
