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Favorite quote from the Bible:
“When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
-Leviticus 19.33-25Support the Project
Literature/research using "economic refugee" term
- American University International Law Review: unprotected in the U.S. by virtue of an inaccurate label
- Change.org: When an Undocumented Immigrant Is an Economic Refugee
- Huffington Post: Surge in Economic Refugees Will Test Community Resources
- MinnPost.com: Americans living abroad for financial survival
- New York Times: American Evangelical Churches Announce New Policy of Sanctuary for Iraqi Refugees
- PDA: Economic Refugees and Big Petroleum
- The Guardian: Casualties of globalism
- Tikkun Daily: Reagan’s Refugees
- UPROOTED: Refugees of the Global Economy
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South L.A. Archive
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Building a self-sustaining park in California’s South L.A.
Posted on December 27, 2010 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF As the year comes to a close, reflecting on 2010 on my work as a community organizer locally in Los Angeles, I’ve had the fortune of experiencing a... -
Healthy Neighborhood, Healthy Environment in South L.A.
Posted on May 10, 2010 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF I have been working for the past two years as a community organizer in South Los Angeles with four different community groups. Last April 28 2010,... -
A Day Without A Bag
Posted on December 16, 2009 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF This will be the 3rd annual event that the Heal the Bay staff will have pulled off in L.A. County. I remember my first “A Day Without... -
A Healthier Future
Posted on June 16, 2009 | 1 CommentDownload article as PDF Here’s an article I wrote for Heal the Bay’s “Currents” magazine (intro based on previous work of Heal the Bay’s James Alamillo): Read the full post... -
South Central L.A. Infiltrates Portland
Posted on May 3, 2009 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF The following is the news-style story (in the 3rd person) that I put together as an exercise for a Communications class. It’s about my trip to... -
Building Community
Posted on April 15, 2009 | 4 CommentsDownload article as PDF I often hear people complain about how our media is further segregating us into compartmentalized categories all for the sake of “target demographics”. So it was nice to see...