Lionel Rolfe Interviewed on KPFK on Anniversary of L.A. Times Bombing
Lionel Rolfe spoke with KPFK’s Suzie Weisman on “Beneath the Surface” October 1, the hundredth anniversary of the famous bombing on the Los Angeles Times on that date in 1910. Rolfe is coauthor of Bread and Hyacinths , available in digital format through Boryanabooks, which deals with the bombing and the career of Los Angeles socialist Job Harriman. Rolfe’s interview was to promote the first project of LATimesbomb, a multimedia event the night of his interview held at the Wordspace studio in the Atwater district of Los Angele. The event drew a standing room only crowd.
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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.
