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  • What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993

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    This mural no longer exists. I thought it was one of the best ones in Los Angeles, because it was so postmodern, but also specific to its location and time. I didn’t realize, until I did research, that it was created in 1993, a long time ago. It was created not long after the term…

  • Corned Beef

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    This Easter we ran out of corned beef, despite having bought three packs of the stuff. St. Pats to Easter is, for Japanese Americans, corned beef season. I don’t know why, but it is. Maybe it’s a Catholic influence. The traditional form is boiled with cabbage, carrots, celery, and served with rice. Either in the…

  • SpaceHey, Liker

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    SpaceHey is a fan project to replicate MySpace. Liker is something like a Democrat Facebook or something. Not really sure. I’m saving some images here to WordPress.com to share on SpaceHey. Here’s my profile at SpaceHey, and at Liker.

  • Letter to Congress about DeJoy

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    Dear ____: We need the USPS board to fire DeJoy and replace him with someone who isn’t out to sabotage the USPS. I sometimes sell on Ebay and other online stores, and have sent around 1,000 packages in the past few years. USPS, in the past, was amazing. It was competitively priced and fast, especially…

  • Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility

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    This ongoing story of the patients of Sakura Gardens ICF, formerly Keiro, is looking bad, with a looming threat that residents will be transferred to the Kei-Ai nursing home facility, which has the highest COVID-19 death rate in California. Ongoing information is published at the group fighting these transfers, Save Our Seniors. For a comprehensive…

  • COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality

    COVID-19 Vaccination Inequality

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    These are a few stories about how vaccination efforts to focus on the groups facing the most infection were undermined, and led to privileged people getting vaccinated. Los Angeles TL;DR: California and Los Angeles need to focus on getting vaccinations to working class Latino communities, which are extremely under-vaccinated. Los Angeles Times: Work-at-Homers Got Appointment…

  • Henry George’s Racist Screed Against Chinese People in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869

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    I was forwarded a paper that was published in a journal. I wondered what the journal was about, and found that they were looking to preserve the intellectual lineage of Henry George, a late 19th century philosopher and early Progressive reformer of capitalism. He wanted land to be held in common, and was known for…

  • On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities

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    The management of this pandemic is racist as hell. I looked back over my emails and some posts, and I was going off on the issue of essential workers and crowded housing back in April of 2020. This barely ever came up in the media as an important factor in the spread of COVID-19, until…

  • How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.

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    Go to the Dashboard. This article shows you how to click on the map and compare the COVID-19 stats for different communities. We’ll see the large disparities between communities in Los Angeles County.

  • Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940

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    This person may have been a relative. It’s hard to know. My father had a letter sent to some government agency looking for him. Recent internet searches turned up photos, and this document, which is a record of the 1940 census. He boarded at a house at 305 E. 2nd St. in Los Angeles. This…