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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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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
March 14, 2018 Dustin Seibert wrote about his personal experiences with the Nat Geo: Why the colonizers at National Geographic want you to accept their apology for being racist AF – theGrio Let me see if I can find the photos I have of a 1930s issue of the Nat that I had, before I…
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
Source: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants I found that article on an aggreagtor, and replied to it, rather than the original. So I posted the response here, figuring it wouldn’t get approved. I then found the original, and looked at the comment section. Zerohedge commenters are a bunch of libertarians…
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
As we stand on the precipice of the cliff overlooking another Great Depression, we need to consider that the Depression wasn’t only rough on the working class. It was also a period of extreme racism, not only by people to each other, but by the government against communities of color. As the government started to…
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
Another brick in the fascist wall that Trump is building. The mission statement of the USCIS has change to become an anti-immigration agency. Source: U.S. agency’s new mission statement: America no longer a ‘nation of immigrants’
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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
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Enshittification for AI Training; Bisan Owda
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The Return of Public Housing
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Rosemead Police/HSI/or ICE Bust
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Old Articles about anti-Zionism and Zionism by Jewish Communists
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Chesa Boudin Recall Aftermath
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Birds Eye View of the Government Takeover and Repsonse to Trump
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Social Media
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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The Commodity Fetish
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ChatGPT: who writes about late 20th century neoliberalism and the national question
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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The End of Facebook
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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Dodging
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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I’m a Trollaholic
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Trump, Hydroxychloroquine, Zinc, Quercetin, ECGC Catechins, AYCE KBBQ
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Brief Review of Migrating from Gmail and Outlook.com to Proton
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About This Blog
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Protected: What the Heck is Wrong?
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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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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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What Are You Shooting For? by Roberto Rubalcava et. al. 1993
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Two Videos of People with COVID-19, from Early 2020
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YIMBY is Anti Rent Control; Polio in Gaza; Archive.org Lawsuit Effects; Chol Soo Lee; Sergio Mendez
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles