Category: Local
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The Flooded Apartment Saga
It’s now 1/31/2018, and the remediation of the apartment hasn’t really started, yet. Rosa said the carpet is smelling skunky. I hope that’s not mold, but it might be mold. The apartment upstairs flooded on the 18th, so it’s…
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The Upstairs Apartment Got Flooded
On Friday the 18th, the upstairs apartment’s bathroom got flooded, and water flooded their apartment and drained down onto us. I don’t know the particulars, but I suspect it’s a bad valve. If it was a clog, it would…
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About that shocking video of hundreds of homeless people in Orange County
People need to be ready to be stunned by what they see.
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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…
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Recent Mean and Hateful Comments on YouTube Anti-Gentrification March Video
I don’t know why, but there is so much hate and rage on YouTube. I have a video from a Defend Boyle Heights anti-gentrification march, and there are some pretty mean comments.
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Pasadena and Altadena: Justice Vigil for Chris Ballew Jan. 4, Comment Jan. 5
Coalition for Increased Civilian Oversight of Pasadena Police is demanding police accountability for their unjustified beating of Chris Ballew. There are two upcoming events to show solidarity. Tomorrow, the 4th, a Vigil in Old Town Pasadena to increase visibility.…
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Housing Racism and Skid Row
Down on the corner of 6th and San Pedro, there’s a building named for Ben Weingart, and maybe his story could explain Skid Row a little better.
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L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective
Link: A Legendarily Censored Chicana Mural Finds Itself Shielded From View Once Again I don’t understand how this mural is “controversial” or “negative”. There’s nothing on there that hasn’t been seen in some TV public affairs programming from the…
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More Little Tokyo Redevelopment, 1969
I went to visit my mother, and she had this old copy of the Nisei Week 1969 program. She was in it! She, my grandma, and I were in a photo. You couldn’t see me, because I was swaddled…