AOC, Gaza; Disappearing Japantowns; Ilhan Omar and Uncommitted

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AOC’s DNC Speech Was a Betrayal of the Gaza Movement

by Kareem Elrefai

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to lend her credibility to the Biden-Harris administration’s false narrative around Gaza was a stinging slap in the face.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/aoc-dnc-speech-gaza

So much election drama.

Lost Kinjo: Disappearing Japanese Neighborhoods

California once thrived with more than 40 different Japanese American neighborhoods or kinjo prior to WWII. They have all disappeared. Over the next year, we will tell the stories of these Lost Kinjo or neighborhoods and discover why Japanese Americans left and where they went.

https://asamnews.com/lost-kinjo/