It wasn't just wealthy celebrities that lost homes in the Pacific Palisades. It was also working-class, middle-class families in Altadena, a diverse community of homeowners, renters who lost everything in the Eaton fire.
I spoke to them for @teenvogue. https://t.co/5n9io7TuDU
NEW: On Monday, I gathered 4+ hours of interviews from Black victims of the LA fires. People that lost upwards of 60 years of their family history.
In my latest, I go into these family histories and how disaster gentrification has already arrived.
https://t.co/nETaKxVQ2l
Incarcerated youth firefighters are risking their lives fighting wildfires in Los Angeles for $10/day.
PUT SOME $ ON THEIR BOOKS! Go to https://t.co/ONBGJQLp8S, select California, “inmate #” & enter one of these:
Directory for Displaced Latino Families - LA Wildfires GoFundMe. Individual gofundmes to support the Latino families displaced by the fires. https://t.co/Im4l5z6Jbm
below is a list of black families devastated by the Altadena fires. IF ANYONE has just a few dollars to spare to help families begin to rebuild their lives please donate https://t.co/LYrSQIBs9J
I’m aghast watching Bisan flinch at the sounds of death machines surrounding her. It’s chilling to here her talk about this being her last day. I cannot believe we are still watching Palestinians livestream their suffering. Shame on the 'leaders' who have condoned this.
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Hisham Awartani is a Palestinian American junior at Brown University, described as a math genius. He was shot by a white man yesterday in Vermont along with his friends Kinnan Abdalhamid and Tahseen Ahmed. The 3 students were wearing kuffiyehs.
There are fears Hisham may not walk
Someone on Korean Twitter pointed out that Sewol happened in 2014 and most of the victims from last night were in their twenties—this means two national disasters happened to essentially the same generation of young Koreans. And the pandemic made them lose two years of their 20s.