Co-author with Kelly Coyne of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World.
Los Angeles
Joined February 2009
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Michael Brooks would have been 42 today!!
Here's some National of Islam Obama with Sam Seder @samseder and Felix Biederman @ByYourLogic! @tmbsfm @majorityfm @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE
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In honor of Michael Jamal Brooks' birthday, I'd like to share my favorite speech of his #FreePalestine 1/5
Please support this GoFundMe by donating or sharingโevery bit of help makes a difference. gofundme.com/f/help-marisol-โฆ
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Since then, @kdeleon's rebranded as a right-winger catering to the MAGA billionaires funding his campaign. ๐ค
He attacks common sense public safety plans, accepts almost $15,000 in donations from big oil, and votes for inhumane policies like LAMC 41.18. xitter.gq/dsa_losangeles/status/โฆ
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In de Leรณnโs application for DSA-LA endorsement, he committed to:
๐ฐ Defunding the police by eliminating civil asset forfeiture.
๐ข๏ธ Banning fracking and offshore drilling.
โบ๏ธ Opposing the terms of what would become LAMC 41.18.
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Back in 2018, Kevin de Leรณn hung out at DSA events and even submitted an application for DSA-LA to endorse his Senate bid in 2018. Of course, we didnโt vote to endorse him.
KDL might be a full time DSA-LA hater now, but back then he made some pretty radical commitments to us. ๐ง
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Kevin de Leรณn hasnโt spent his City Council campaign focusing on solving local issues. Instead, heโs spent it smearing DSA-LA.
๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐, ๐๐๐๐๐ช๐จ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฟ๐๐ผ-๐๐ผ ๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ง ๐ช๐จ ๐ฉ๐ค ๐๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ข. ๐ค
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Hereโs your funding for mental health care, your street repair, your environmental code enforcement, your bike lanes, your bus routes, your homelessness caseworkers, your housing inspectors, your parks and libraries, your pre-k, your legal aid, your tree canopy,
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The video of an employee of a City contractor, Urban Alchemy, spraying water in the direction of an unhoused person is disturbing.
Since 2021, the City has paid Urban Alchemy $14M+. We are looking into this contractor & the circumstances that led to this event.
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Rather than cut, say, highway expansion funds, Newsom is quick to propose cuts to the small-but-mighty program that has the potential to do more than almost any other state program to reduce emissions from the transportation sector.
santamonicanext.org/2024/01/โฆ
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Thank you Democracy Now for sharing part of my sermon โJesus in the Rubbleโ
Reverend @MuntherIsaac, the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, delivered a powerful Christmas sermon on the war in Gaza and why the world must stand with Palestinians. "The hypocrisy and racism of the Western world is transparent and appalling," he said.
Stop traffic violence! Demand a public forum with Karen Bass to end traffic deaths in LA! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/t2pcWpzb via @Change
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๐LAPD HELICOPTER AUDIT: FINDINGS
โข Hourly cost: $2,916 per flight hour
โข ~$50M per year (more than 14 city dept. budgets)
โข 61% of time not spent on high priority crime
โข Disproportionate time spent in certain communities
โข ~762k gal fuel burned/yr
bit.ly/heli-audit
ALT graphic with mint green and white text on grainy dark background and white helicopter in top left corner. LAPD HELICOPTER AUDIT FINDINGS: Hourly Cost: $2,916 per flight hour, Annual Cost: ~$50 million (more than the budgets of 14 city departments), Audit Out NOW! bit.ly/heli-audit, Controller's seal and logo
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Excited to announce that Iโve been named Chief Spokesman for President Bidenโs National Strategy to Combat Islamophobia! Check out this video to learn about all the incredible work weโll be doing!
I just took action with @DSA_LosAngeles: No Money for Massacres - Take Action Nov 1st. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/no-mโฆ
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For the last several years, many LAPD top brass have taken trips funded by pro-Israel think tank/lobbying group JINSA.
Among them:
Moore (then Assistant Chief) in 2014.
Zarcone in 2018.
Zarconeโs travel authority form touts that he learned from โJewish intelligence, โฆโ
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Congress is preparing to fund a genocide. Rather than seek deescalation, the ruling class spends its time smearing those who recognize the humanity of Palestinians and the true cause of this conflict: apartheid. We will not be cowed in the fight for peace and liberation.