I am a mom of three. I have an 18, a 12, and a four year old [who] influence my policy-making every single day. I’ve worked with the City of Long Beach for 10 years, almost a decade…
[The] first five [I was] working for Vice Mayor Robert Garcia at the time and then the last five I’ve been on the City Council pushing very progressive issues. Everything related to working for hotel workers, not just ensuring that they had opportunities for better wages, but also opportunities for protection against sexual harassment, which is a huge women issues. The tourism industry is doing well and we know Latina immigrant women are hurting in our tourism industry.
Truck drivers, like my own father, who was a truck driver for 30 years and woke up every single day to ensure he put food on the table for my family. The misclassification of them at our ports was unacceptable. So I walked with truck drivers to ensure that we got some parity with them, and we’re still working on that.
And lastly, the environment for me is very important. I will continue pushing on that. I worked [with] the Sierra Club and Surfrider Foundation to pass a styrofoam ban. We’re continuing to do that work here in Long Beach knowing that litter, air quality, water quality has been a major issue, and I will continue to champion those issues when I get to the State Senate.
Source: Introductory Statement, Women Rising: A Panel of Women in the Race to Lead SD33, Feb. 25.
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So I don’t know about incentivizing developers for doing the things that they should be doing. But I absolutely believe that we should work [with them], whether it’s through city financing to be able to keep those people in place because I’ve had a lot of people displaced in my district. I don’t want that to occur on a statewide level. I think we just need to continue working.
Source: On Affordable Housing and Repealing the Costa-Hawkins Act, Women Rising: A Panel of Women in the Race to Lead SD33, Feb. 25.
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[1] Militarily demobilized. Since WWII—which was both the death knell of European colonial empires as well as the starting shot of the American neocolonial era—Europe has had notoriously scant standing armies, and has been able to consistently slash government military spending domestically and as a percentage of their contributions to international diplomatic bodies such as the UN. This is because nowadays European nations very rarely find themselves in situations where they need to independently send their militaries abroad in order to secure trade routes, foreign resources, or privileges within markets overseas; the U.S. has been fulfilling that hard-power obligation for them for over half a century. The social results of Western Europe’s decreased militarization are striking, especially when contrasted with the U.S.: there is not a single country in Western Europe without universal healthcare, labor rights and welfare systems are strong, value is placed on corporate and financial regulation, environmental policy is lightyears ahead, and, not least of all, there is a robust governmental approach to curbing digital surveillance and reining in tech monopolies. Japan enjoys a similar arrangement with the U.S. in which it, too, is militarily demobilized yet is given full access to, and prominence in, the global economy. In the last decade there has been a reversing trend of remilitarization in some of these nations. That trend was hastened during the last four years as a result of Trump’s ultranationalist politics, but is likely to continue even after his departure in large part due to the growing bipolar geopolitical climate of competition between superpowers.
The “owner” bit of home-“owner” appears in scare quotes throughout the text for reasons that will shortly become apparent.
Nothing signals trouble quite like consensus.
More on them later.
And, anyways, what exactly remains “obvious” in an era “post-truth”?
I take as my starting position that even the “obvious” must be won.
It’s like Lenin said, you know…
Whether directly, or through a chain of investments, or through the wider speculative market in real estate.
I use “banks” in this piece as a stand-in for several sources of income that derive partly through the mortgaging of property and/or investment in institutions that have the power to mortgage property.
That is just its “ideology.”
The Ricardian “law of rent” explains that any location with an advantage over another location, can accrue an economic value, called “rent,” to the owner.
This happens without the owner needing to pitch in to create the advantage.
If the owner does pitch in, then the value accrued from that advantage cannot be called “rent.”
“Rent,” in economic terms, is only, precisely, the value accrued from that portion of the advantage for which the owner is not responsible. That is what we mean when we say, “Rent is theft.”
This does not mean places with lower property taxes ipso facto have higher property prices—and that is because the property tax is only one of the contributing factors. You could have zero taxes on land in Antarctica, for instance, and it would still sell for $0. This is why the introduction to the analogy controls for such variables.
This is the logical conclusion of believing two premises:
(1) All humans have an equal right to the Earth. (2) Vaginal birth is a lottery system
Prop 13 is rent control for home-“owners.” You can learn more about its history and impact here.
“Hamlet” by William Shakespeare. Act 4, Scene 5
This is why the lobbyists who spend the most money to support the mortgage interest deduction are bankers, mortgagers, and realtors.