KPBS’ Tarryn Mento reports that the City Heights Economic Development Collaborative is seeking California Cultural District designation for the Little Saigon area of City Heights. If successful it will join the Barrio Logan and Balboa Park districts to represent San Diego among the current fourteen designated districts. The hope is that this designation can be used in the fight against gentrification. [Read more…]
Marijuana, Opioids, and Alcohol: It Is Time to Change the Paradigm
By Egberto Willies / Daily Kos
America needs a paradigm shift when it comes to how it deals with products that affect our moods, psyche, and our overall well-being. We must do so based on data instead of ideology, and deprogramming many will be difficult. But marijuana must be completely decriminalized.
Houston cannabis activist Ashley Miller appeared on Politics Done Right to bring awareness to many issues about marijuana, aka weed, aka cannabis. Her first goal was to dispel the notion that there are any valid reasons why marijuana is illegal. Second, she hoped to activate Americans both locally and throughout the country. As one listens to all the arguments and discourse about marijuana, there can only be one conclusion: the product should not be illegal.
The World Mourns the Loss of the Queen of Soul, R.I.P. Aretha | Video Worth Watching
With the passing of Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, we look back over her legacy and remind ourselves of her incredibly rich and powerful history. Digby’s Hullabaloo has the fascinating story (with additional video) of how her iconic interpretation of “Respect” came to be. [Read more…]
Southern Cross | Geo-Poetic Spaces
The serpent in the rose garden
has monochromatic eyes
senses the heat of prey
A cold blooded predator
coiled up
in Jim Crow’s shallow grave
He poisons
the memory of lives sacrificed
for slavery’s sins
Takes a knee
for Robert E. Lee [Read more…]
Walking the Talk – Parkland Students Take to the Road to Change the Nation’s Response to Gun Violence | Video Worth Watching
The Parkland students who committed themselves to taking action to prevent gun violence in the U.S. organized a multi-city bus tour called “Road To Change”. It’s purpose was to encourage voter registration and turnout, with the hope that the newly empowered voters will turn out of office those officials who refuse to address the gun violence issue. The tour’s final stop was in Newtown, Connecticut, the site of the Sandy Hook elementary school attack nearly six years ago. Activists David Hogg and Bria Smith reflect on the tour and about what’s next. [Read more…]
Aretha Franklin: the ‘Voice that Shook the Heavens’, the Woman Who Shook our Souls
This past week we learned that Aretha Franklin was approaching the end of her life surrounded by friends, family and luminaries. During the ensuing days, images of Aretha and strains of her songs have been shared in the public sphere. Many of us have gone through our own personal play list of the Queen of Soul who died today. [Read more…]
Rapist Brock Turner’s Appeal Denied, Victim’s Statement Still Speaks Powerful Truth About Sexual Assault
In a reassuring victory for assault victims everywhere, convicted rapist Brock Turner lost his appeal for another trial recently after his attorney, Eric S. Multhaup, argued that his client only sought to have “outercourse” with the former Stanford student he is convicted of assaulting — not intercourse.
For anyone wondering what that means, you’re not alone. The three-panel judges were at a loss as well.
“I absolutely don’t understand what you are talking about,” Justice Franklin D. Elia told Multhaup on August 8, according to Mercury News.
In 2016, Turner, then 20, was convicted of three felony counts of sexual assault: Assault with intent to commit rape of an intoxicated or unconscious person, penetrating an intoxicated person with a foreign object and penetrating an unconscious person with a foreign object. Rape charges initially brought against Turner were dropped as no penetration by him took place, and therefore no actual rape took place according to the law. [Read more…]
Despite Claims by Reform Opponents, Nobody Is Trying to Repeal Proposition 13 in 2020
Somebody is threatening to touch California’s political third rail. You know, the one found in the Bible right after the Ten Commandments. I think it’s called–checks notes–Prop 13.
The 2018 general election is more than a couple of months away, and already the purveyors of fear are cranking up their noise machine for 2020. Visions of grannies being dumped off in the Arizona desert are being crafted for fundraising appeals to the Koch brothers and their ilk by so-called taxpayer groups.
What really happened is a coalition of over 270 endorsing community organizations, labor unions, business leaders, philanthropic foundations and elected officials, calling itself Schools and Communities First, held five simultaneous press conferences in Area, Los Angeles, Fresno, San Diego, and San Bernardino. They’re proposing a ballot measure with sensible and long-overdue reforms to property tax assessments on business properties worth over $2 million in California [Read more…]
Summer Chronicles 2018 #9: The Music of the Street
There is music in the street. It’s easy to be enthralled by the sounds of the natural world, but urban noise frequently distresses us, disrupts our head space or intervenes into the sounds we are plugged into at the moment. But sometimes, the city bustle has its charms. So much of the urban noise that we think of as a distraction from some other narrative that has captured our attention or an intrusion into our sealed-off domestic space is seen as ugly.
But perhaps we just need to learn to listen. Is it the sounds themselves that are the issue or our reactions to them? Maybe instead of sonic garbage, the clatter and hum is part of the chorus of life. As I get older and crankier, I try to remember to leave that door in myself open so instead of pushing things out, I can let them come and go. [Read more…]
Salsa Celtica: El Sol De La Noche, Live at Helsinki Festival | Video Worth Watching
Here’s to the wonderful world of Fusion. I love Salsa. I love Celtic. Here’s Salsa Celtica with a live version of El Sol de la Noche from the Helsinki Festival, August 2014. [Read more…]
Claire de Lune x 2 : NASA and Kamasi Washington | Video Worth Watching
From the NASA Goddard YouTube web page:
The visualization was created to accompany a performance of Clair de Lune by the National Symphony Orchestra Pops, led by conductor Emil de Cou, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on June 1 and 2, 2018, as part of a celebration of NASA’s 60th anniversary.
The visualization uses a digital 3D model of the Moon built from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter global elevation maps and image mosaics. The lighting is derived from actual Sun angles during lunar days in 2018.
And for another take on this classic Debussy work, here’s an arrangement by saxaphonist Kamasi Washington. [Read more…]
Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center: Victory for Barrio Logan, San Diego History, Culture
By Josie Talamantez
The community of Logan Heights/Barrio Logan has been the driving economic work force for the City of San Diego for over 100 years and has paid the price of discrimination, marginalization, and isolation through segregation practices for the majority of that time.
Chicano Park became a tipping point in our relationship with the powers that be and now close to 50 years later we are prepared to tell our story and the wonderful contributions our community and community members have added to the well being of the City, State and Nation. [Read more…]
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