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At this critical juncture for creators and our online community, it’s time to make some changes to how we do it.
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Deeyah Khan’s “White Right: Meeting the Enemy” is a must-watch this weekend.
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It’s been a little while since I sat down for some hot takes, but this week is exceptional! Yesterday in Los Angeles charges were announced by federal prosecutors against Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29 year old Uber driver who the state alleges is responsible for the blaze which became the monstrous Pacific Palisades fire over the first week of this past January.
I consider just what this means for victims of this unbelievable news, including since this recent L.A. Times analysis shows that after California wildfires destroyed nearly 23,000 homes between 2017 – 2020, to this day only 38% of them have been successfully rebuilt.
This podcast episode also shouts out the late, great Mike Davis’s Ecology of Fear, which discusses the perilous challenges for Los Angeles in the face of Climate Change. Please find it at your local library or bookstore, it’s never been a better time to get in the know.
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In this installment of J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast, guest David Cowen and I discuss his being diagnosed with bipolar disorder as early as when he was 21 years old, Kabbalah and Zionism, Israel’s genocide through forced starvation in Gaza, as well as rising homelessness in Los Angeles and California.
We also shout out a special fundraising campaign for Khaled, only five months old as his family flees south from Gaza to the border with Sudan due to Israel’s latest campaign against the Palestinian people, known as “Operation Gideon’s Chariots II.” To learn more about Ibrahim and Nagham’s campaign for Khaled, please do so here.
From David: “Dave Cowen turns the religious into humor, finds the spiritual in the digital, and makes serious comics fun. His popular series of comedy Haggadahs for the Jewish holiday of Passover have been featured in The New York Times and include parodies of Trump, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mel Brooks, Kanye West, and The Office. His debut graphic novel, 11 years in the making, AN IMPERFECT UNION, is available on his Substack SerioComics, which also includes Q&As with the best makers of graphic literature today such as Pulitzer Prize winner Tessa Hulls, Eisner winner Shannon Wheeler, Melissa Chan and Badiucao, Sina Grace, Yasmeen Abedifard, etc. Follow his stories and more on Instagram at (@_davecowen_).”
Thank you also to Nicolas Jara (@nicthejara) for video, Jacob on Sound (@fuller.sound), and Esteban (@marsbuiltstudio) for sharing his space for this discussion.
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On Sunday, August 3rd in East Hollywood, Mark Casas and his partner Angel Maria Zavala spearheaded a special pop-up with Ondo Coffee in support of Who Is Your Neighborhood, also known as Quien Es Tu Vecindario. The pop-up featured home-style chilaquiles as well as horchata, with proceeds from the event going directly to street vendors in our community.
In this installment of J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast we speak with Mark and Angel Maria as to just how we did it, including the way that growing up in Los Angeles and observing our family traditions inspired us into action.
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