This is why we need what @healthebay offers , science, advocacy and local action. Repost from @latimes • L.A.’s devastating fires are only the latest episode in which the ocean has served as an unappreciated receptacle for trash and hazards originating on land. The smoke from the fires, the debris piled up along decimated streets, the charred and toxic remnants of thousands of destroyed homes, businesses, cars and electronics — nearly all of it, eventually, will come to rest in the ocean. Unlike the smoke that emanates from rural wildfires, the charred material now entering the ocean is the stuff of “people’s homes: their cars, their batteries, their electronics,” said Rasmus Swalethorp, a biological oceanographer at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “It’s certainly going to contain a lot of things that we ideally don’t want to see in our oceans — and in our soils, for that matter, and our water streams, and certainly not on our dinner plates.” Among scientists’ most immediate concerns is ocean water contamination. In addition to the already-massive footprint of ash offshore, Gold noted that runoff from the first few rainstorms is a huge concern. He’s had a flurry of conversations with city, county and state officials, who have been trying to proactively limit the amount of fire pollution going into the ocean. The rain this week was the first significant precipitation in the region since May. In addition to the fires’ ash and chemical residue, it was also the first flush of nine months’ worth of daily pollution into the sea. Read more at the link in bio. ✍ @corinnepurtill_lat @rosanna.xia 📷 Wally Skalij; Rasmus Swalethorp/Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Robert Gauthier
Repost from @eracoalition • Reposted from Milennial Mia. The SAVE act could disproportionately affect women, especially those who changed their names due to marriage or divorce. #womenrights #votingrights #19thamendment #voting #EqualRightsAmendment
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
we are going to miss our pen pals!! love traveling down memory lane!
Just found out through @scatepark that #Deidra and Laney Rob a Train is showing at The Hammer at 11 today. It’s how I met both Nick Moceri @moceri and Clément Bauer @clementsbauer and it took us to Sundance. It’s a movie that we’re proud of having made with the amazing director @sydneyfreeland and our great cast and crew as one of the first Netflix Original Movies! @iamrachelcrow @iamamurray @qgar @lessallcasting @daninicolet @missipyle @timblakenelson345 @davidsullivan @funamentals @ianbricke
Rehearsals are gonna be fun.😳 Runs 3/12-30 tickets at @etcsb #parentsinchains #parentsetcsb
Ready for some relief??? Come see this fun play- PARENTS IN CHAINS March 12 – 30, 2025 A new comedy about texts, treks, sex, and empty nests “In PARENTS IN CHAINS, six L.A. parents exchange texts as their 18-year-old daughters drive home from a weekend in San Francisco during the approach of a hurricane. The trip and the inclement weather bring out both the best and the worst in the parents as they confront, as a group, as couples, and as individuals, what it means to let go of their kids. By turns viciously comic and poignant, PARENTS IN CHAINS is a valentine to the most difficult, most failure-prone job in the world. Presented with a star-studded rotating cast.” Written by EMMY and Peabody winner @mrjaymartel , directed by Andy Fickman @herrdirektor (who wants an EMMY and TONY) produced by @onproducing who will win a TONY 😊 March 12 – 30, 2025 20% off tkt s March 12-16 use code ParentsInChains – Link in my bio. and at https://etcsb.org/
Repost @isabelwilkerson : In this briefest of months, let us bask in the stirringly poignant ovation for one of the greatest sopranos of all time as she tries to absorb the magnitude of her audience’s embrace. Leontyne Price, the first African-American to reach international acclaim in the rarefied world of opera, turns 98 today. She was born in the depths of Jim Crow, in Laurel, Mississippi, on February 10, 1927, to James Price, a sawmill worker, and Katherine Price, a midwife. When she was five, her parents traded in a family phonograph as a down payment on an upright piano for her. When she was nine, she saw the pioneering soprano Marian Anderson in recital in Jackson, which fueled her desire to be a singer. During the Great Migration, she boarded a segregated bus from Mississippi to Ohio in 1944 to pursue her dreams at Central State College in Wilberforce. She was filled with anxiety about leaving her family but knew she had to go north to “carry out the plans she had carefully outlined for later in life.” There, she studied under Paul Robeson and won a scholarship to Juilliard and thus the chance to pursue opera. In 1955, she became the first African-American to appear on television as the lead in an opera when she performed in Puccini’s “Tosca.” Though the performance aired nationwide on NBC, several NBC affiliates canceled the broadcast in protest. She would go on to star in “Aida,” “Carmen,” “Madame Butterfly” and other lead roles. But it was her debut at the Metropolitan Opera (as Leonora in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore”) on January 27, 1961, that ignited a 42-minute ovation, one of the longest in Met history. She would win 13 Grammy Awards for her recordings and appear on the cover of TIME. In 2007, a British magazine named her to its list of the 20 Best Sopranos of all time, ranking her fourth, after Maria Callas, Dame Joan Sutherland and Victoria de los Angeles. This clip is from her 1985 farewell performance at the Met, where she received such a rapturous standing ovation that she could barely contain her emotions as she tried to remain in character (as enslaved princess Aida dreaming of freedom). A powerful moment in music history. #blackhistorymonth
Have you check out Common Side Effects double premiere Sunday @ 11:30 | Next Day @streamonmax Can I be cured? #commonsideeffects #adultswim
Today at @1stchurchla Introducing our Fulfilling the Dream For Food Equity partners – A Place Called Home (@apch2830)! Check out this video of development officer Brian Rosenbaum talking about the organization’s and their involvement in the event! Read on below for more. A Place Called Home was founded in 1993 when Debrah Constance dedicated herself to providing gang-affected youth in South Central Los Angeles with a safe place after school to get a snack, do homework, play with friends and be with caring adults. For 30 years, A Place Called Home has provided South Central youth with a safe, nurturing environment and proven programs in the arts, education, and wellness to help them improve their economic conditions and develop healthy, fulfilling, and purposeful lives. APCH has directly served more than 20,000 youth members through its core school day, after school and summer programming, and over 150,000 local residents through family and supportive services including food, clothing, and holiday toy distributions, counseling, voter education, and community organizing. https://apch.org/ Fulfilling the Dream For Food Equity February 8, 2025 At The Cathedral First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, 540 S. Commonwealth Ave 5:45 Food Equity Fair, Gardens Dream Tours, and C3LA mini concert 6:30 African American Composers Organ Concert by John West on The Great Organs 7:00 “Fulfilling The Dream” Concert featuring @dc6singers Website and tickets/donations: https://www.fccla.org/mlk or at the #linkinbio Tickets are suggested $25 donation for live and live stream to benefit Food Equity partners including @polospantryla , @apch2830 , @hollywoodfoodco , and @immanuelpresla center along with @1stchurchlafarm and Food@First! In partnership with the Skid Row Peace and Healing Center @creatingjusticela_ !
