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For updates, see: Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies. For status, see: AB 715 at Calmatters Currently, the bill is in the Senate Education Committee and Judicial Committee. Letter to Sasha Renee Perez SRP is the State Senator for my district. — to be written — Protests A small group of people in AD49 protested against…

If you’re coming over from social media, and want to read political books, join my Reading Group contact list. If you want to send me an email landofziploc at gmail. I can give you my Signal and phone through email, but we should chat on Signal first. My Bluesky link is above. Often, I’ll post…

Join the Rosemead Tenants Union Contingent! Go to the rosemeadtu.org site and sign up for the group, and you’ll eventually get some info.

Recently found photos about Boyle Heights and Arts District gentrification, and added them to this old post, also about the same topic.

This was a minor pain in the ass, and I’ll go into some detail about the problems I had. I’m complaining a lot in this post.

Original post on Nov 8, 2024 Inventing Black and White – Learn how Bacon’s Rebellion became a turning point for the way the laws of colonial Virginia distinguished people of different races. (Note that the two classes – poor vs. indentured/slaves – united, but it was to continue the expansion of the colonies into indigenous…

The world was just too depressing for a while, so I didn’t have time to curate the stories I was reading. I just posted a bunch to my bluesky account, @johnkawakami. Instead, I messed around with this crossword puzzle tool. Other Ones Black Reconstruction Racism

Meta was barfing, so I turned to Claude, to help with something I’ve never been good at: Gutenberg Blocks. I asked it to make a block that writes the shortcode. I guess it did exactly that, but that’s not really what I wanted! The code it produced almost worked. It was intended for a flat…