I'm at the High Speed Rail session at the Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition conference in Oakland today, where my laptop just stepped up to play this great video that the High Speed Rail Authority has put together:
This is a great conference - almost 400 people, and with a strong social justice focus along with the expected environmental one. This is the kind of citizen-led event that flies right in the face of the "California is ungovernable" argument.
Over at StreetProphets, PastorDan asks "Who is My Neighbor?" in relation to the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids that have been happening all over the country - including many in California. Latina Lista broke some great coverage of the "privatized detention facilities" (maybe the three scariest words in the American lexicon right now) that families broken up by the raids are being placed in.
PastorDan's post includes a treatment of how birthright citizenship challenges the authoritarian familial structures favored by conservatives - and why they want that law changed. The whole article, and a lot of the pieces linked from it, are very much worth a read. But where it really gets interesting is this:
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