Category: Politics
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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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Good Summary on Bastard Urbanism
This feels like a good snapshot of why so many organizations are uniting against SB 827, the upzoning law that gives away a lot of value to landowners and developers, without capturing that value, and without protecting tenants. via…
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Long Beach Rent Control Research and Links
This page is a summary of research conducted to understand the movement for rent control in Long Beach. Long Beach is large city with around 60% renters, located in LA County adjacent to Orange County. It’s long been a…
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Libertarians on Immigration
I was reading some random web pages, and came across an article (not linked) advocating that libertarians should support immigration controls. It was a baffling article, and stuck in my craw, because the old school libertarians were for open…
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Ezra Klein Discussion with Bhaskar Sunkara of Jacobin
I hadn’t listened to this show before, and my first introduction was the episode before this one. Titled “How Democracies Die”, it irked me, not only in the big picture idea that the center holds things together, but in…
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
Back in 1889, John W. Lovell was attempting to create a “book trust”, or a cartel of book publishers to control prices by limiting competition between the publishers.