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Posted: 24 Sep 2015 11:24 AM PDT
By Doug Porter
America’s Finest City and its neighbors have got a lot of work to do. The Center on Policy Initiatives has finished crunching the 2014 census data released last week, finding the number of San Diegans living in official poverty continues to increase. Seniors, children and minority populations are disproportionally impacted, with 41.5% of adults living in poverty reporting they had jobs in 2014. The Climate Action Campaign and Circulate San Diego released a report on Wednesday critical of regional planning proposals, saying current efforts will undermine one of the main goals of the city’s climate action plan. The icing on the cake for the day was a report from KPBS about a successful effort in Coronado to halt additional bike lanes based on citizen complaints about “paint stripe pollution.” [Read more...]
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Lively Hoods
Posted: 24 Sep 2015 06:58 AM PDT By Jeeni Criscenzo Lively Hoods Why are we asking for jobs? Most jobs are a lopsided trade agreement where we relinquish the majority of our waking hours, and our labor and talent to make someone else wealthy – wealthier! in exchange for just enough money to survive. Sometimes it’s not even enough …used to be. What we all really want and need is a means of living that makes being alive meaningful. [Read more...] After One Year Ayotzinapa Still On the Minds of Chicano Activists
Posted: 24 Sep 2015 07:02 AM PDT
Protests This Week in San Diego Mourn the Disappearance of 43 Mexican Students By Elena Marques Usually writing comes naturally to me, I love sharing the art and culture of our community of Barrio Logan and the words flow easily. However as I sit to write today, there is so much to say that I am at a loss for words. It’s incredibly difficult to describe the emotions facing the one year anniversary of the mass kidnapping of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa. So much that I found myself putting off writing this because there just doesn’t seem to be sufficient words. After a year of lucha, marches, protests, art shows, cultural events world wide, a nationwide tour of parents and students from Ayotzinapa creating a solid and intricate network of organizers across the nation, meeting and working with monumental people here in San Diego, across the nation, and across the border, including the spokespeople from the Escuela Normal, it weighs so heavy that we face a year with no answers, no justice. [Read more...]
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