Los Cuentos – The Calendar
Mama approved! With photography by yours truly from around the world; printed on matte paper; 28 pages in total, featuring holidays, seasons, and more. An artsy addition to the room. Currently in stock: 21
$25.00
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In our 81st episode, we sit down for the second time with Eunisses Hernandez (@EunissesH) to hear about her new campaign door-knocking through North East Los Angeles. We discuss the inspiration behind Eunisses’ decision to run for political office, including the Great Recession, as well as the conditions that make it next to impossible for too many elderly workers in her community to retire. We also talk about gentrification in “NELA,” including by mural erasure, which tramples over historic efforts by communities there to grow and sustain Latinx political power. If and when elected, Eunisses will be only the second woman to represent Council District One in its nearly 100 years as an office at L.A. City Council. Learn more about Eunisses at eunissesforthepeople.org.
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In our 82nd episode, we sit down for an enriching conversation with David Kim, who is running for congress to represent the 34th district of Los Angeles in Washington D.C. David and I discuss his inspiration for running, his unique qualifications for the job as a queer left Korean-American millennial, redlined neighborhoods in “CA-34,” and more. A can’t miss-session for all of Central Los Angeles.
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Today regarded as an American icon, in his actual life, Martin Luther King Jr. was mostly villainized for his human rights efforts. On this MLK Jr.’s Day, yours truly reflects on the toll inflicted on Black Los Angeles over the last two years of the pandemic; Black people remain over-represented in L.A. County hospitalizations for COVID-19, as well as in the county’s traffic stops, jail cells, and–most deplorably of all–L.A.’s homelessness encampments.
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