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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
This article starts out about Dianne Feinstein, but gets into California economic demographics and history. Source: Why California Hasn’t Moved On From Dianne Feinstein
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
I didn’t know about this law, but I think Los Angeles folks should learn about it. It’s called Proposition Q, and it was passed in 2016. The law prohibits tents on public property.
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Ethnic and Unhoused
I’m not sure if people still believe this, but there used to be a bit of “common wisdom” or racial stereotyping that said there aren’t Asian or Latino homeless.
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Civil Rights Unionism
Jacobin has published a good article about the organizing of Local 22 at the Reynold’s tobacco company, and how the union had originated and combined the civil rights struggle for African Americans with the union, and with the participation by the Communist party organization. Civil Rights Unionism by Robert Korstad
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
Things are looking pretty rough for Antonio Villaraigosa. Here are the latest polls. These are from Real Clear Politics. I have to wonder, if the voters for Chiang and Eastin were to choose Villaraigosa as their second choice, and the polls used “ranked choice voting”, what would the numbers look like? Ranked choice voting allows …
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Downshiftism
This came across the LA Indymedia newswire. I’m interested in the reduction of consumption and production, but not so sure about the three postulates… but will consider them. Downshiftism – a philosophy established on the theoretical bases of the economic decrease. According to Jean-François Jaudon, this contemporary philosophy is defined by the three following postulates:…
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
Most narratives about HOLC/FHA redlining focus on the redlined areas. The narrative goes something like this: redlined communities were created, and Black people were forced to live there. While that’s generally accurate, it ignores all the other groups that suffered from the HOLC grading of communities. This post excerpts some of the Los Angeles County…
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
Black students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design say there are no design courses that consider race and justice. Here’s an outline for one. Source: There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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The Return of Public Housing
Bookmarking to read later; Statement in Opposition to Sb 827 – Luxury Development for the Rich, Displacement and Dispossession for the Poor
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
Mr. Mayor: Thank you for finally doing something to help house the homeless people around the Plaza. It’s gone out of control, with rents rising, and whatnot. People don’t think it’s a big deal to live out of a tent or their car, anymore. That’s where we’re at, as a city and country, and I…
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Beauty Calculator Results
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CalCare, AB1400, Single Payer Insurance Readings
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Ethnic and Unhoused
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Mid90s and Redlining
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Little Tokyo Urban Renewal 1972, Urban Renewal Researcher from Japan 1968, Gentrification Notes
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ChatGPT: Stop Asian Hate, the movie
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ChatGPT: compare trotsky’s book on fascism with dimitrov’s book on fascism
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Prompt Collection 3
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Anti-Pedo Fascists
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Kats Kunitsugu in the Kashu Mainichi
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First COVID-19 Post
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Protected: RIP Mark
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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How to take a “tour” of how much damage COVID-19 has done, using the LA County surveillance dashboard.
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
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Village Scale Epidemic Management in Japan
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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ChatGPT: Crying in H-Mart with Karl Marx on the Asian American Commodity Fetish
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The Mirror
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Racist Housing Policy Made Your Neighborhood
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists