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  • Mid90s and Redlining

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    I don’t know the story behind Mid90s, but the trailer and description hint at some urban geography and class issues related to the relationship between the middle class neighborhoods of Cheviot Hills and working class neighborhoods of Culver City.   Whenever something like this comes up, I like to look at the HOLC maps that…

  • California Proposition 1, 2018

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    Ballotpedia: The Encyclopedia of American Politics Source: California Proposition 1, Housing Programs and Veterans’ Loans Bond (2018) – Ballotpedia I’m leaning Yes on this. There is one problem, which is that there is no anti-displacement language in this law. $150,000,000 would go toward implementing transit oriented development, which mainly means bigger apartments near train stations,…

  • February Links

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    This took a couple hours, but it was worth it. Many links from February’s facebook. I’m doing this as a part of a project to delete my posts from Facebook. Many of the links get copied, some text is copied, and it’s all saved into a regular blog post.

  • Pee Commerce

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    This is based on a blog post from March 3, 2009. I got into a discussion about fertilizing with human manure, and defended the practice, mainly because my grandmother did it.

  • January 2018 Links

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    I’ve been using a tool to delete most of my past history on Facebook, and it’s working well. The problem is that the links to interesting articles are lost.  So, I’m going to archive some of the links I like before I delete them. http://www.rafu.com/2017/12/supporters-of-800-traction-artists-discuss-next-steps/ https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/12/suburban-poverty-and-recession/549350/ https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/7o41rf/the_fcc_is_preparing_to_weaken_the_definition_of/ds6w3aw/ Text on the plaque about the Chinese Massacre…

  • The Commodity Fetish

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    I’ve been thinking about an explanation of the Commodity Fetish, an idea Marx often used, on Wikipedia, and not finding it.

  • Everyone Hates ICE

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    A part of ICE wants to leave ICE behind and get a new agency with a different three-letter-acroynm, because everyone hates ICE. People in Huntington Park called the cops on ICE. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ice-conflict-20180630-story.html    

  • Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families

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    Trump has indicated that he will be signing an Executive Order today to stop separating families when they initially cross the border. While this is movement in the right direction, DO NOT BE FOOLED by what this Order does. Here are the facts thus far:

  • Taking Over “Public School”

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    As public schools are being decimated through corporate takeovers by charters, the idea of “public schools” seems to have become a new hipster relic.

  • Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?

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    I’m glad that Alice Johnson is out of prison. I don’t like the way the press are saying she’s a “first time nonviolent drug offender”. Please. She was operating up a the executive level. She wasn’t some lady selling small bags of coke to friends.