Overall, the essay skillfully connects gentrification, climate catastrophe, and fascism—and shares the artists and community members who make up the "promise of Altadena." The photographs from Gabriella Angotti-Jones are also stunning.

My student was looking up vocab words, so I got to marvel at how Kelley's use of "bulwark" (as opposed to, say, "defense" or "refuge") creates the corollary image of a "wave" of white nationalism. The language and imagery are so vivid.

I re-read it with one of my tutees this week and this sentence stood out: "Altadena was the promise of what America could be, the opposite of oligarchy and fascism, a bulwark against white nationalism and racist terror."

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I just saw a headline describing the incredible work yesterday of preventing dozens of ICE from doing a mass raid on Canal st as "police arrest and pepper spray dozens of people outside garage". That IS NOT the story!!!

Tomorrow, a double feature: Shakespeare in Love, then Hamnet (the movie).