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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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:
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Taking Over “Public School”
As public schools are being decimated through corporate takeovers by charters, the idea of “public schools” seems to have become a new hipster relic.
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Alice Johnson is Out, but what about Street Dealers?
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.
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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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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Trolling and Gloating: Masks for COVID-19
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Two Errors I’ve Made Interpreting COVID-19 Data, that Others are Also Making
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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February Links
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
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Linux Nautilus Trash Folder Stopped Working
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The Western Gender Binary
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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Get an Oauth2 Token in a Command Line Program
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California Cogged Stones: International Trade and Exchange
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Update for April 29, 2019
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Pee Commerce
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Marxist Feminism
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First COVID-19 Post
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Directory Structure Checking Script
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Selected Facebook Posts from March 2020
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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California Migration Trends and Dianne Feinstein
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Audacity Recording Problems Choosing an Input Source on Linux Mint
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Instagram Censorship Algorithm Failure
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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Lock File Location for OpenOffice LibreOffice when it says File is Locked for Editing
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery