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  • Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016

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    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.

  • Ethnic and Unhoused

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    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.

  • Civil Rights Unionism

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    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

  • Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)

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    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 …

  • Downshiftism

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    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:…

  • Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities

    Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities

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    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…

  • There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus

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    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

  • The Return of Public Housing

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    Bookmarking to read later; Statement in Opposition to Sb 827 – Luxury Development for the Rich, Displacement and Dispossession for the Poor

  • Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes

    Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes

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    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…

  • Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword

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    nemu98 asked on reddit: Why is the anglosphere so focused on race? 2025-09-16 The British Empire implemented racism in colonizing Ireland, and then applied it everywhere, to create a hierarchy of ethnic groups or races, with their white people at the top. If caste was available, they used caste. (Gershon, Britain’s Blueprint for Colonialism: Made…