Thursday, May 20. I’m Laura Newberry, and I’m writing from Los Angeles.
The city of Redding has long been known for its 300-plus days of sunshine each year and proximity to lush hiking trails and alpine lakes.
Now, the Shasta County community has become a political tinderbox. Residents are increasingly divided over the health risks posed by the pandemic, governmental power and the degree to which a local armed militia should be able to take matters into its own hands, write my colleagues Anita Chabria and Hailey Branson-Potts.
Tensions came to a head on May 4 when Carlos Zapata a high-profile militia member and a leader in a movement to recall three Republican Shasta County supervisors who supported Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pandemic health orders allegedly assaulted Black Lives Matter activist Nathan Pinkney at a trendy local restaurant.
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Los Angeles mayor calls for 3% INCREASE to LAPD s budget - bucking defund the police advocates - after shootings rise 80% this year
Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed to increase the LAPD budget this fiscal year, which starts July 1, by allocating $1.76 billion of the city s $11.2 billion budget
It equates to a three percent increase to the current police budget
The Los Angeles City Council slashed the police budget by $150 million last July amid the BLM and defund the police protests
The slight budget increase coincides with an uptick in crime across Los Angeles
According to LAPD crime statistics for last week, shootings are up 80 percent compared to the same period last year
In Canada, COVID-19 has exacerbated long-standing institutional and systemic inequalities for disabled people. And these inequalities are rooted in ableism.
Ableism represents beliefs, social practices and policies that (re)produce and privilege expectations of able-bodiedness and able-mindedness. Resulting in the marginalization, exclusion and oppression of people with mind/body differences.
Disabled people’s identities are also intersectional they may be racialized, gendered, elderly, may live in poverty and/or are part of newcomer communities. This viewpoint further reveals the persistent and invisible injustices disabled people experience and is important for developing policies, resources and supports for those affected by the pandemic.
California is reserving 40% of COVID-19 vaccine for the neediest. Who will get it? Rong-Gong Lin II, Luke Money, Colleen Shalby © Provided by The LA Times Keyaira Escoe, a medical assistant, signals that she is ready to vaccinate people at a vaccination site opened by St. John s Well Child and Family Center at East Los Angeles Civic Center on March 3. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
California is embarking on a radically different strategy in its strategy to vaccinate the state placing a new focus on getting shots into the arms of the neediest of Californians, who have suffered the most in the pandemic.
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