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Can't attend tonight's mayoral forum on LGBT issues? No sweat! You can tune in and watch it live as it streams on the internet at the Windy City Times or Radio Arte's websites.

Via Huffington Post - Wishes don't come true often but for 35 million Americans, health care reform is about as close as it gets to a Christmas miracle.

Apparently Cardinal George didn't get the memo.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, until recently under the leadership of Chicago's own Cardinal Francis George, officially opposes health care reform (Merry Christmas, the poor and forgotten of America). This, my friends, is crazy.

Residents, business owners, and artists unite to paint first-ever “With Me Comes A Cure” mural; project will be the centerpiece of planned community garden; ceremony planned for May 22

WHAT: Artists and residents of the West Side neighborhood of Austin will resume work this week on an AIDS awareness mural that will become the centerpiece of a community garden.

The 15 x 30 foot mural, “Austin Is Doing Something (A.I.D.S.),” was inspired by With Me Comes A Cure, an awareness campaign of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) designed primarily to address the growing HIV epidemic among African Americans and stress the importance of developing an AIDS vaccine.

Each year, World AIDS Day is commemorated around the globe on December 1. Together we celebrate the medical and social progress and bring into focus remaining challenges ahead.

Chicagoland's World AIDS Day events are presented with hopes to prevent new infections and promote care for all impacted.

Ariana was kind enough to include a post from the AIDS Foundation of Chicago's Johnathon Briggs and John Peller about the City of Chicago's proposed public health budget cuts:

CHICAGO – The beat and rhyme feels similar to Kanye West’s “Heartless,” a song easily recognized by Chicago youths. But instead of the rapper’s Auto-Tuned lament, we hear a young girl intoning a vital message to her peers: “How could you go unprotected/don’t you feel disrespected/being safe is priceless/you need to go get tested.”

Chicagoland's 2008 World AIDS Day Commemoration events will take place November 29th through  December 10th. This year's events are presented by a coalition of community organizations and individuals uniting to educate while entertaining fellow citizens.

Monday, November 10, 2008
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Center on Halsted
3656 North Halsted, Chicago,