Orange County’s COVID-19 Disaster: Othena
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A Public Service for #California Voters from Blog#42 | #Vote!
This is a public service announcement for California voters. Continue reading A Public Service for #California Voters from Blog#42 | #Vote!
A Storm Is Brewing And The Dem Fluster-Cluck is Coalescing | Blog#42
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#BernieSanders’ #PBSDebate Promise On Mass-Incarceration | #PoliticalRevolution #BLM on Blog#42
A well-loved columnist has taken to the airwaves again, Continue reading #BernieSanders’ #PBSDebate Promise On Mass-Incarceration | #PoliticalRevolution #BLM on Blog#42
Poor and white in affluent Orange County, CA | #Precariat on Blog#42
Conservative readers like to cite the demographic statistics for wealth in Orange County, California (OC) Continue reading Poor and white in affluent Orange County, CA | #Precariat on Blog#42
It’s 2015 and Liberal California prosecutes a Black woman for #lynching
It may come as a shock, but if you are a Black woman, you can be prosecuted for #lynching in Liberal California. Continue reading It’s 2015 and Liberal California prosecutes a Black woman for #lynching
Six Words: ‘With Kids, I’m Dad. Alone, Thug’: NPR | #BlackLivesMatter
November 17, 2014
Marc Quarles, his wife, Claudia Paul, and their children, Joshua and Danielle, live in an affluent, predominantly white neighborhood in California. Quarles says his neighbors treat him differently when his children aren’t around.
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These seven charts explain how Ferguson—and many other US cities—wring revenue from black people and the poor – Quartz
“Offender-funded”
In its violent crackdowns on demonstrations since a white police officer shot 18-year-old Michael Brown in early August, Ferguson police revealed a fresh proclivity for abusing its citizens. However, the city’s finances suggest the St. Louis suburb’s criminal justice system has been stealthily exploiting residents—particularly those who are black or poor—for years. Ferguson’s economy steadily withered over the last decade, as did its population. Yet even as the number of adult residents fell 11% between 2010 and 2013, fines collected by the city’s court system surged 85%, hitting $2.6 million last year.
KPCC: Invisible Dropouts: Thousands of California Kids Don’t Get Past Middle School | 89.3 KPCC
Sarah Butrymowicz
Devon Sanford’s mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer when he was in the eighth grade. After barely finishing at Henry Clay Middle School in South Los Angeles, he never enrolled in high school. He spent what should have been his freshman year caring for his mother and waiting for police to show up asking why he wasn’t in school.
No one ever came. Continue reading KPCC: Invisible Dropouts: Thousands of California Kids Don’t Get Past Middle School | 89.3 KPCC
California Parents Complain: SexEd Textbook ‘Equivalent To Pornography’ | ThinkProgress
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A California school district has agreed to temporarily shelve a ninth grade sex education textbook after parents complained it included material that’s inappropriate for teenagers, including information about masturbation, orgasms, and erotic touch. The parents asking for the removal of Your Health Today have compared the book to porn.