It’s Never Too Late: Mourn, Come Together, and Organize on Your Block

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First we were two, then we were four. Then we found ourselves in between the companionship of more people than we could count; it felt like the beginning of something new again; why not?

The names of those for whom we mourn, come together and organize for include, but are not limited to:

Renee Nicole Good, 37, U.S.

Kevin Porter, 43, U.S.

Genry Ruiz Guillén, 29, Honduras

Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, 45, Ethiopia

Maksym Chernyak, 44, Ukraine

Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, 44, Dominican Republic

Brayan Garzón-Rayo, 27, Colombia

Nhon Ngoc Nguyen, 55, Vietnam (Implied via Refugee Act/context)

Marie Ange Blaise, 44, Haiti

Abelardo Avellaneda Delgado, 68, Mexico

Jesus Molina-Veya, 45, Mexico

Johnny Noviello, 49, Canada (Quebec)

Isidro Pérez, 75, Cuba

Tien Xuan Phan, 55, Not specified (Vietnamese surname)

Chaofeng Ge, 32, China

Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, Mexico

Oscar Rascon Duarte, 58, Mexico

Santos Banegas Reyes, 42, Honduras

Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, Mexico

Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, 37, El Salvador

Miguel Ángel García Medina, 31, Mexico

Huabing Xie, Not specified, China

Leo Cruz-Silva, 34, Mexico

Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh, 67, Jordan

Josué Castro Rivera, 25, Honduras

Gabriel Garcia Aviles, 54, Mexico

Kai Yin Wong, 63, China

Francisco Gaspar-Andrés, 48, Guatemala

Pete Sumalo Montejo, 72, Philippines

Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, 48, Pakistan

Jean Wilson Brutus, 41, Haiti

Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, 46, Eritrea

Delvin Francisco Rodriguez, 39, Nicaragua

Nenko Stanev Gantchev, 56, Bulgaria

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MAKING AMERICAN GUERRILLAS AGAIN

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Because of course you don’t think it’s “Mission Accomplished” in Caracas already, do you?

On Saturday, January 3rd the U.S.’s unprovoked attack on Venezuela cost at least 40 people their lives and led to the unwarranted, illegal kidnapping of the acting president, Nicolas Maduro. If this becomes the new norm of a new Monroe Doctrine, then no leader is safe, be they in Latin America, Africa, or the Middle East.

Check out this map on US “Interventions” in Latin America since 1950 for yourself here.

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IS CALIFORNIA SAVABLE? IS IT WORTH SAVING?

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From Dana Williamson, who was outgoing Governor Newsom’s former Chief of Staff, to California’s own Attorney General Rob Bonta, to Oakland’s Ex-Mayor Sheng Thao, to Orange County’s Andrew Do, the last couple of weeks since the passage of Prop 50 have seen a number of corruption cases brought forward against state officials in California.

Plus, back in the Southland, a new report shows that from Pacific Palisades to Altadena, myriad officials in L.A. County absolutely failed their duty to the residents of L.A. County as wildfire tore through these communities. This was also the case even after the 2018 Woolsey fire was supposed to serve as an inflection point for L.A. County to better prepare for “natural disasters.”

You can read the McChrystal Group’s full report for yourself here.

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VOTING IN CALIFORNIA IS EASY. FINDING A JOB, NOT SO MUCH!

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Prop 50 HAS PASSED. Now, could Gavin Newsom tell us about just why California has the second highest rate of unemployment in the nation, behind only Washington D.C?

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