Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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What lengths would you go to for breakthrough? You think this would be a relatively easy question to answer, right? The sad truth is most people aren't willing to take the often obvious steps necessary to achieve the breakthrough they deeply desire. Why? Because breakthrough demands something. And that 'something' is often the thing you don't want to- or "can't" give up. The good news? Breakthrough is only going to demand the sacrifice of something that's toxic or complex. And, it only does this...
California's Board of Education has approved ten textbooks that it has deemed "inclusive enough," and rejected two others that were not. Banned books included one by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, one of the top textbooks producers in the United States. According to the Los Angeles Times, "The rejected textbooks failed to abide by California's 2011 FAIR Education Act. The law, written by former state Sen. Mark Leno, requires that schools teach about historical figures who were LGBT or who had...
(From a speech delivered Thursday evening, November 16, 2017 to Santa Monica's Housing Commission: I am part of a group of concerned citizens that for the past fifteen months have been advocating for the most vulnerable adults in Santa Monica, namely the ones experiencing homelessness. Our principal goal has been to raise awareness and introduce measures of accountability for an issue that the public is largely unaware of. The issue is: the routine discriminatory and dehumanizing treatment of...
A young man crossing PCH at 5:30 am was hit and killed by a 70 year old male driver in a Honda Civic, the Santa Monica Observer has learned. The collision closed traffic in both directions on PCH. It forced enormous amounts of traffic into the area around the Santa Monica Civic Center, into the late morning on Tuesday. Santa Monica Police report that a collision in the 300 block of Pacific Coast Highway, has closed lanes of the important artery at 5:30 Tuesday morning. Southbound traffic from...
Flair Cleaners wants to help you make room for your #BlackFriday bargains by donating gently used or new clothing and shoes to the Flair Cleaners 15th Annual Holiday Clothing and Shoe Drive. Clothing and shoes can be donated at any of the five Flair Cleaners locations, Santa Monica, Valencia, Burbank, Redondo Beach, and Studio City between November 24 and December 31, 2017. All donations will be cleaned, if needed, and given to local nonprofits that help our community members in need. This year...
Correction, 12/4/17: Laila from Untitled Number One School, says that the number of children proposed for the preschool is 20, not 50. "Most importantly, our Planning Commission approval is based on that maximum number of 20. The Statement of Official Action is linked to the Agenda for this Tuesday's City Council mtg. here:" http://santamonicacityca.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=1107 Sharing is caring, but not in my back yard when it comes to one neighborhood and a preschool. 2953...
Mike Feinstein has informally announced through Facebook that he is running for California Secretary of State. Feinstein is considered a founding member of the Green Partylocally. Feinstein has been involved in political activism since 1988, after he attended a conference at the Findhorn community in Scotland entitled "The Individual and the Collective: Politics as If The Earth Mattered". He first became active with the Westside Greens in the Santa Monica/West Los Angeles area in November 1988...
What a wonderful new addition to our capital of natural healing, Santa Monica. I found Amplify to be an interesting choice of name, because this haven is so serene, the only thing it ‘amplified’ was my need for a nap. I was complaining of nervous tension and restlessness, and just one treatment transported me into my ideal state of Chillifornia. I was treated by Licensed Acupuncturist and Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yunuen “June” Beristain, who opened Amplify and graduated with ho...
