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This project seeks to continue and extend generations of work done by Japanese American musicians to lay claim to tradition while expressing unique experiences of life in the present, via the lens of various vantage points within the "Nikkei," or Japanese American diaspora.
"Art Saved Us" -Ruth Asawa, artist, in reference to mass-incarcerated, concentration-camp-living Japanese Americans https://youtu.be/CpfhVmDNuho
The advent of the digital age and the fragmentation of society by capitalism: Digitized Music is More Than a Metaphor Traditional Analog Vehicles for Music Playback are Usually a Better Aural Representation of the Creators' Efforts https://www.androidguys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Analog-vs-Digital.png See: "Analog vs. Digital Audio Explained"https://www.first.edu/blog/analog-vs-digital-audio-explained/ "Digitization" as a rule, is a representational reconfiguration of sound into resampled … Continue reading “Digital” does not mean “Better”
Can we just forget about the formality of titles for a minute, and bring the conversation down to the level of what's real, here? Gavin "I blame Vietnamese Nail Salons for COVID-19" Newsom, who just survived a Right-Wing recall because all the Bernie-Sanders-Platform-leaning-voters and voters-who-hate-fascism in CA dealt a decisive blow to the forces of … Continue reading Gavin Newsom = Servant of Corporate Interests and White Supremacy
White Supremacy is a Historic Trend in the U.S. Left To expect self-proclaimed white and middle-class progressives to be immune from white supremacist thought is a fantasy. The debate in DSA (and elsewhere) should be welcomed if it results in clarity about the need to center fights for full equality and true economic justice for … Continue reading “Class Reductionism, Race Reductionism and White Supremacy in the Self-Proclaimed Left
Reading assignment one, The Master Plan: https://www.planetizen.com/files/los-angeles-centers-plan.pdf https://pw.lacounty.gov/wmd/watershed/lar/docs/LARMP-MainVolumeEnglish-PUBLICDRAFT.pdf https://laplanninghistory.wordpress.com/1950-1970/http://www.ladowntownnews.com/news/price-of-sixth-street-bridge-rises-by-million/article_6864e5c0-c098-11e6-9d59-3b4913b7e14c.html https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-04-29/fourth-central-development-arts-district https://la.curbed.com/2017/10/19/16501368/sears-development-boyle-heights-renderingshttps://saveourseniors.network Just east of Kei-Ai LA/Pacifica Companies on Lincoln Park Ave: https://boyleheightsbeat.com/will-la-bioscience-corridor-remake-bh-for-good/ The 800 Traction fight in 2017 to fight for the last Japanese Americans living in "east Little Tokyo" was happening at the same time as the Mariachi's rent strike at 1815 E. Second … Continue reading A Reading List for Re-invigorating the Anti-Displacement Movement on the Eastside
Erika Alexander and Nina Turner, Opinion contributors Published 4:03 AM PDT Apr. 15, 2021 Updated 9:01 AM PDT Apr. 15, 2021 https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/opinion/2021/04/15/reparations-not-cutting-check-its-repairing-community/7189526002/ A story told in multiple parts Reparations are a solutionRepairing a communityWhy Evanston's reparations aren't reparations On Wednesday the House Judiciary approved H.R. 40 — a reparations bill written more than 30 years ago. It's a long-overdue … Continue reading Opinion: Reparations is not about cutting a check. It’s about repairing a community.
They can come from propaganda machines serving class interests. They can be regurgitated by some to take on shades of bias based upon other interests aside from the originator of the idea and modified, but sometimes the end result is the benefit for those still in the primary power position. Then, you have old-school journalists, … Continue reading Where do Ideas Come From?
Why would you not support AB 1400 in CA or other efforts to win healthcare for all unless you have a vested interest in the for-profit-only monopoly? https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/06/08/the-medical-industrial-complex-pads-its-pockets-as-we-empty-ours/ Assembly Bill 1400, the "CalCare Act," is significant, as it addresses the issue of inequality in healthcare, identifying the need for multilingual and multicultural services. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.naswca.org/resource/resmgr/files/2021lld/AB-1400-fact-sheet.pdf
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