International Reaction To The Raymond Avenue Murders
Editor:
Sorry to read about the murder of 2 students in your city. Thanks for informing me. Actually, I only passed through LA twice. LA geography and crime is pretty distant.
I sure join in hoping that USA political economy and culture turn around and there’ll be less crime, drugs, guns, unemployment, vacant houses and homeless people…
Dont use new expensive cars or sit in any car or outside especially not after dark… Scary stuff.
10 years ago on the afternoon of the last Friday of the Passover which fell on March 29, 2002 I scurried into the neighborhood supermarket just 2 or 3 seconds ahead of 3 people who were killed– a young 17 year-old shopper, the guard, and a suicide bomber (from a refugee displaced locality who also was pregnant and had turned herself into a missile). I didnt hear the bomb, only a moment of silence opening on to breaking glass, a scream, and rolling cloud of smoke. My ears still ring. it was too windy to light a memorial candle by supermarket today. that kind of political violence may be more understandable than LA gang scene…
After passover week which ends Saturday night, there are 2 heavy national memorial days here. Holocaust day (on Warsaw ghetto uprising anniversary) and the memorial day before Israel Independence day. Well tomorrow Sunday 15 apr is Lincoln’s death date. An American anniversary since April 15, 1865, to quote that elegy by Whitman
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
BY WALT WHITMAN
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d,
And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night,
I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring…
so be well, have a good healthy safe spring.
happy holiday.
-Yohanan weininger
Jerusalem
Editor
We hadn’t heard any news about this killing here. Terribly tragic. Fine piece.
–Dan Bessie
Somewhere in the French countryside
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Honey on the road to San Francisco with some of the Spanish explorers
NOTES FROM ABOVE GROUND
By Honey van Blossom
(Honey is a Belgian Marxist former strip-tease artiste)
"Cities of the Golden Gate," Raymond Dabb Yelland, 1893. Most illustrations can be enlarged by clicking on them.
Prologue to the story of the Spanish exploration and settlement of California
Seasonal migrations of animals now extinct in California probably created the roads the native people used before the Spanish land exploration of California. “The heyday of giant mammals in North America was the middle and late Pleistocene, an epoch that started 2.6 million years ago and ended 11,700 years ago, around the time the Earth was thawing out from the Ice Age. The gigantic beasts, which migrated from Asia across a now-vanished land bridge called Beringia, are known as Rancholabrean megafauna, after the famous La Brea tar pits in downtown Los Angeles — the graveyard of thousands of saber-toothed tigers, giant bison and other extinct animals.”[1]
The seasonal migrations of the large mammals may have created the substantial roads used by the indigenous people after their arrival.[2]
Paul S. Martin and Richard G. Klein argue that Paleoindian over-hunting led to the extinction of the megafauna.[3] Others argue that climate change was responsible for mammoth and mastodon extinctions. As the last major glaciation ended around 12,000 years ago, climate warmed too quickly for the megafauna to adapt.
