In California, we’re often symbolically liberal, but operationally conservative."
This makes me rage:
“San Francisco is about 48% white, but that falls to 15% for children enrolled in its public schools.
For all the city’s vaunted progressivism, it has some of the highest private school enrollment numbers in the country.”
In California, we’re often symbolically liberal, but operationally conservative."
The state has four of the nation’s five most expensive housing markets and a quarter of the nation’s homeless residents.
The root of the crisis is simple:
It’s very, very hard to build homes in California. "
Those signs sit in yards zoned for single families, in communities that organize against efforts to add the new homes..."
Those inequalities have turned deadly during the pandemic."
The project was choked by pricey consultants, private land negotiations, endless environmental reviews, county govts suing the state govt."
It’s become common in the state to see legislation like the California Environmental Quality Act wielded against projects that would curb sprawl."
California’s voters blocked the 2020 ballot initiative restoring affirmative action on purpose.
But some reflect old processes and laws that interest groups or existing communities have perverted for their own ends."
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@AFP's Yan Zhao reports: https://t.co/uDfYkMeZJf
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- respirator (dubbed "pig snouts" in Cantonese)
- helmet
- eye mask
- heat-proof gloves
- water bottle
- cling wrap
- saline
- traffic cones
- pots and pans
Demonstrators find creative methods to battle police tear gas
https://t.co/kPeUTu9iFh
AFP graphic charting Hong Kong's main socio-economic indicators and opinion polls on press freedom and government performance
@AFPgraphics
AFP graphic showing the main equipment used by hardcore pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong to battle police tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets
@AFPgraphics
Frontline first aid.
Nurses, doctors, medical students and ordinary citizens with first aid training have clamoured to join a small volunteer corps helping treat people involved in the Hong Kong protests
@AFP's Yan Zhao reports: https://t.co/uDfYkMeZJf
📸 Anthony Wallace
Pro-democracy activists kick off three days of rallies at Hong Kong airport.
Protesters hope to win international support from arriving passengers. The last demonstration at the airport on July 26 passed off peacefully without causing flight disruptions
https://t.co/jmVqtEd4M2