Even Your #PropertyTaxes Were #Redlined;
#Property #taxes are subsidizing #wealthier, #whiter #neighborhoods at the expense of #historically redlined neighborhoods.
https://nextcity.org/podcast/even-your-property-taxes-were-redlined
https://www.ecowatch.com/urban-noise-pollution-health-wildlife-environmental-justice.html
#TranslatingGaza: The findings of the study — the first to evaluate noise inequality in #redlined communities — were that louder levels of noise are more commonly found in redlined urban areas, and that they detrimentally affect urban ecosystems in proportion to their volume.
#WhiteFaceBlackFuel #DispropotionateImpacts: #Heatwaves are hotter in #historically #redlined #neighborhoods, Hurricane Harvey disproportionately flooded Spanish-speaking households, and #airpollution is worse in predominantly #Black #neighborhoods than mostly #white ones. There are reasons for this, and they have nothing to do with the #physics of a warming #atmosphere.
Wise Intelligent - The Globe Holderz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIb_MTsZD0A&ab_channel=WiseIntelligent
#eugenics #imperialism #polluters #financeers #armsdealers #racism #railroaded #redlined #murdered
In 1950, the AIDS virus was fed to nearly 300,000 black youths in Africa in the form of an oral polio vaccine by Dr. Hilary Koprowski, who is currently the Director of Bio-Virology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Today a child dies every minute of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. In the US, African Americans represent 49% of all new AIDS cases.
(for more on this, see: https://kolektiva.social/@OccuWorld/110700778912740813)
From 1924 to 1976, 32 states in the US utilized eugenics programs to depopulate the country of so-called "weak breeds" who were down-breeding the American population. Some 65,000 black youth from public school districts throughout the country were given a biased IQ test. All who failed the test were sterilized against their or their parents' will.
A 1996 exposé by the San Jose Mercury News documented CIA involvement in a Nicaraguan drug ring, which poured thousands of kilos of cocaine into Los Angeles African-American neighborhoods in the 1980s. Drug boss Danilo Blandon, now an informant for the DEA, acknowledged under oath the drugs-for-weapons deals with the CIA-sponsored Contras.
The war on drugs has been a war on poor people, particularly poor urban African-American men and women. It's well documented that police enforcement of the new harsh drug laws have been focused on low-level dealers and communities of color. Arrest of African-Americans have been about five times higher than arrest of whites although whites and African-Americans use drugs at about the same rate. African-Americans have been imprisoned in numbers even more disproportionate than their relative arrest rates. It is estimated that in 1994 on any given day 1 out of every 128 US adults was incarcerated, while 1 out of every 17 African-Americans adult males was incarcerated. The differential and sentencing for powder and crack cocaine is one glaring example of institutionalized racism. About 90% of crack arrests are of African-Americans, while 75% of powder cocaine arrests are of Whites. Under federal law it takes only five grams of crack cocaine to trigger a five-year mandatory minimum sentence. But it takes 500 grams of powder cocaine, 100 times as much, to trigger the same sentence for a white boy.
"The legacy of #pollution and #disinvestment persists, and it is also connected to the area’s rate of #violence: formerly #redlined communities have significantly higher rates of gun violence than non-redlined neighborhoods." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/31/california-port-city-pollution-gun-violence
#BrokenTaillight #racism is #redlined into the #socialfabric: It’s common, though misguided, for US leaders to brush aside comparisons to famously #multimodal cities like Copenhagen and Berlin, insisting that #American #autocentrism is too deeply ingrained to be dislodged. But it’s much harder to dismiss the stunning progress in the European Union’s host #city.
#carfree #beyondEV #subsistence #SelfSufficient
A Belgian Lesson in Taming the Automobile https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-16/from-traffic-choked-brussels-a-model-for-driving-less
https://mappingatlanta.org/2023/01/17/atlantas-corporate-landlords/ #refeudalism #redlined #tenants There's a reason #TheRentIsTooDamnHigh The top 10 corporate landlords of Atlanta own 30,000 single family homes in Atlanta, predominantly in predominantly Black neighborhoods. 40 percent of recent home sales in Atlanta were to corporate entities
Soft City is a large-scale #textile series that #maps the urban fabric of #Black #neighborhoods in the #Boston area. The tapestries map #historic (#redlined) and contemporary Black neighborhoods
Looks like people are doing an #introduction for themselves on here. So here’s mine:
I’m a #journalist, based in #NYC. Currently serving as senior economic justice correspondent for NextCity.org, a national urban affairs magazine covering solutions to advance social, racial and environmental justice in cities.
I specifically tend to write about different models historically #redlined communities are using to take back #power over #money, #land and #labor.
My cats are cuter than yours.
