"The East L.A. Interchange provided a model for how other Los Angeles–area neighborhoods experienced eminent domain, displacement, and freeway construction." #BoomCalifornia: https://boomcalifornia.org/2023/04/19/justice-and-the-interstates-the-racist-truth-about-urban-highways/ #EastLA #LosAngeles #UrbanPlanning

🌊 🛤️ Lovely essay "The Tides that Erase: Automation and the Los Angeles Waterfront":

"there will be enough of us left who know even a few words of the old language to tell the stories of those who have come and gone: break bulk, hooks, casual cards, A books, long on hours, a good worker, the best worker, my grandfather, my father, my father"

https://boomcalifornia.org/2020/01/14/the-tides-that-erase-automation-and-the-los-angeles-waterfront/

#automation #ILWU #LosAngeles #UCaliforniaPress #BoomCalifornia #longshoremen #OpenAccess #labor #unions

🌊 🛤️ Lovely essay "The Tides that Erase: Automation and the Los Angeles Waterfront":

"there will be enough of us left who know even a few words of the old language to tell the stories of those who have come and gone: break bulk, hooks, casual cards, A books, long on hours, a good worker, the best worker, my grandfather, my father, my father"

https://boomcalifornia.org/2020/01/14/the-tides-that-erase-automation-and-the-los-angeles-waterfront/

#automation #ILWU #LosAngeles #UCaliforniaPress #BoomCalifornia #longshoremen

Was given a lovely opportunity to excerpt a bit of OIL BEACH in the great public-academic, open access journal Boom California:

https://boomcalifornia.org/2023/02/07/oil-beach-how-toxic-infrastructure-threatens-life-in-the-ports-of-los-angeles-and-beyond/

#OilBeach #NewBooks #otters #conservation @sts @ecologies #STS #Commodon @communicationscholars @UChicagoPress #BoomCalifornia #California #LosAngeles #LongBeach