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23 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Echo Park Lake got a $45 million makeover 6 years ago. What "renovations"? Why is this secret?

For years our requests for safe parking lots, showers, and bathrooms were ignored, but the city can mobilize this quickly to build a fence shutting down an entire 16-acre public space?
It's so interesting that the city has chosen this exact moment to resurface the north playground, but has *never once* upgraded or resurfaced the south playground, which still has sand.

Hmmm, now why would they prioritize one specific part of the park?
PROJECT SCOPE The scope of the proposed Project includes the
Here's how to stand with the unhoused community tomorrow morning.

Be sure to let your councilmember know that making up a secret "park improvement" project just to destroy people's homes is absolute bullshit.
Exceptional pivot here from "improvements" to "$600,000 of damage," blaming the community for the city's inability to provide shelter and basic needs for survival.

And again, this is all being done with no notice and no timetable for reopening.

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24 Mar
I just called the Echo Park Rec Center. The person who answered the phone said the park is closing tomorrow and people will only have access to the public spaces south of Bellevue.

It seems like Rec and Parks knows exactly when the park is closing.
However, you can still book a swan boat ride for tomorrow or any other day, so maybe details of the closure have not yet reached the Boathouse?

Seems like vendors, including those who sell food in the park, should be alerted if they're going to lose business for weeks or months? A screen showing a reservat...
I called Wheel Fun Rentals, which operates the swan boats, and the person said they knew about a potential closure, but didn't have additional details about when, and hoped it wouldn't affect them.

It seems strange they wouldn't have the same information. Is the park closing?
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9 Mar
Two weeks ago today, I sent an email to producers at KCRW's Greater LA saying I could not appear as a contributor on the show again until the station publicly responded to journalist Cerise Castle's allegations of racism and erasure of her work on the #MyBlackLA project.
Since I sent that note, more Black journalists have come forward sharing their experiences of racism at KCRW. A KCRW employee resigned. And yet, there has been no additional public statement from KCRW management aside from a thread attempting to discredit Cerise’s allegations.
Regular KCRW guests have asked me if they should appear on the station. Here's what I'm telling them.

KCRW has provided a more detailed public explanation for why it dropped the show The Daily than it has for why it's not moving forward with #MyBlackLA kcrw.com/news/articles/…
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9 Feb
A gut-punch of a study: 1 in 5 deaths worldwide are now attributable to fossil fuel-polluted air.

Some of the highest rates of mortality *in the world* are in the Northeast U.S., where deaths correlate with high concentrations of particulate pollution theguardian.com/environment/20…
Thinking about this story from two years ago, where the WHO's finding that 1 in 10 childhood deaths could be attributed to air pollution spurred a group of mayors to lash out against automakers for continuing to manufacture gas-powered vehicles
archive.curbed.com/2018/10/29/180…
I don't think I've seen any U.S. Climate Mayors™ issue similar calls to automakers to stop making fossil-fuel powered vehicles that are quite literally killing their constituents.

Maybe they're listening now
seas.harvard.edu/news/2021/02/d… “This new research supports...
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23 Dec 20
Looks like LA's earthquake early warning app, ShakeAlertLA, is being shuttered two years after it was launched. The mayor is encouraging people to download the statewide app, @MyShakeApp instead. MAYOR GARCETTI CALLS ON ANG...
LA's app had a... shaky... deployment.

After failing to deliver alerts for the 2019 Ridgecrest quakes, the largest the region had experienced in years, the city lowered the app's threshold—but users still didn't know what to expect if and when it did work la.curbed.com/2019/7/10/2068…
Some people did receive alerts from LA's app during September's El Monte quake, although it was just barely over the threshold, so you had to be in the right part of the city to get one
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10 Sep 20
The mayor of LA just announced that the city's COVID-19 contract tracing program is being done in partnership with Citizen. If you don't know what Citizen is, you probably don't want to! But here's a short thread.
Citizen started as a "crime tracker" named Vigilante but it was immediately removed from the app store for "concerns centered around user safety"—namely, that it would encourage, yes, vigilantism. techcrunch.com/2016/11/02/con…
The app, which, at the time, aggregated both 911 calls and user-reported "crimes," including streaming live video, rebranded—and got $12 million in funding.

“The name has changed, but the mission has not,” said founder Andrew Frame.
techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/cit…
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12 Jun 20
This week is the annual Congress of New Urbanism where thousands of New Urbanists™ are getting together (virtually) to talk about their vision for cities.

I looked at #CNU28 to see what they were talking about and based on the tweet, here's my best guess at the session titles.
Using a Pandemic That Killed 1,000 People Yesterday to Advance Your Pro-Density Argument
Completely Realistic Housing Designs For a Depression When Everyone Will Be Evicted
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