#city council

[radicalurbanista]

8.2.22. Los Angeles

LA City Council voted to criminalize sitting in public on 20% of LA’s land in an effort to strengthen police power and funnel more unhoused and Black and brown people into jails. Council members used police to clear the chamber of protesters, and nearly all people in the chamber, in order to pass the measure without protest.

[Image 1 shows a line of police officers with their backs turned to the city council bench, facing an empty council chamber minus one person sitting in a bench, possibly a journalist.]

[eddiescouch]

A quick and dirty way of adding more activism to your daily diet is to look up your local council members, and if they have one sign up for their email newsletter.

I'm disabled and I have about as much energy as a potato, but just signing up and reading the dang newsletters actually gives me a lot of opportunity to take what action I can. Often the newsletters have things like links to zoom meetings for comments on projects/issues, polls and other opportunities for feedback, notifications for position openings on the council, project announcements, status updates on issues, and more goodies. Just being informed of what's going on, as well as the priorities of the council and the council member in question, gives you a huge leg up on action planning.

Read them when you can. Show up when you can. Just doing what you're able, even if you feel like you should be doing more, keeps pushing the rock up the hill. Oh, and do this for all your council members, not just the ones you like. Reading a council member's newsletter is a really good way to find out who's a bastard if you don't know already. It lets you put targeted pressure on the problem people and when it comes time to vote, you'll know their stance on issues.

[itgetsbetterproject]

Just a PSA: you do NOT need to be old enough to vote, eligible to vote, nor registered to vote to attend and speak up at your local School Board or City Council meetings!

The media usually focuses on the "big elections" but your school board and city council are often the ones making the big decisions that affect your daily life on a smaller, day to day basis (bathroom policies in schools, anyone?).

The good news is that anyone can speak up at these meetings - grab some friends and stand up for LGBTQ+ youth-supporting policies.

Courtesy of __lawyerbae on our TikTok.

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

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All seven members are women.

Six are women of color.

All are under 40.

All are Democrats.

Well done, St. Paul!

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Stephen Millies

The New York City Council unanimously approved a resolution on June 22 calling for an end to the cruel U.S. economic blockade of Cuba. The next day a news conference was held in front of City Hall to celebrate this victory. “This blockade must stop,” declared Council member Charles Barron, who was the resolution’s prime sponsor.

[falenminds-blog]

a fun lil something about episode 229 of wtnv: when Cecil tell us how Vaquero got Dana free from jail, both dates they mention are actual days when wtnv uploaded new episodes!

Dana kills her double (or the double kills Dana, no way to know for sure) on ep 19 (The Sandstorm) which was released on the 15th of March of 2013. And murder officially became a crime in Night Vale on the 15th of August, 2013, episode 29 (The Subway).

however, if you go to ep 29, you won't hear anything about murder at all throughout the transmission. that's cause Cecil actually covers the story one episode before! on ep 28 (Summer Reading Program), which came out on the 1st of August, Cecil reports that, during a debate that day, The City Council had finally declared murder illegal and that this law would go into effect in two weeks. so yes, the act of murdering only became a crime on the 15th of august, 2013, in our weird little town of Night Vale and the lovely Dana Cardinal did not violate any laws during the doppelganger incident!

damn, Cecil was right! that Vaquero really is the best in the business, respect.

[v0id-do0dles]

WTNV doodles :):)

The first two are 100% my favorite

[monster4monster-bracket]

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EktAyuk

Skeksis are a violent evil species who all fight each other and backstab. Not SkekEkt and SkekAyuk. They hang out, gossip, discuss their tastes and health, and SkekAyuk held a welcome home banquet just for SkekEkt. There is a reason why the fandom has shipped them and seen them as the Gomez and Morticia of TDC for years.

[racefortheironthrone]

I am a bit... confused in regards to urban life and organization in Westeros. On one side you have highly developed urban centers like King's Landing , Oldtown and Stony Sept; On the other, their administrative characteristics do not (through a cursory observation) resemble much of what I know of Medieval urban centers such as the HRE cities.

Are all westerosi cities and towns held directly by some lord? Mitgh there be some sort of oficial city councils in at least some of them, be their membership elected, inherited or something else? What sort of rights, privileges, protections and duties would a westerosi living the urban life have that a peasant would lack? How influential you think are guilds on westerosi urban politics and how they exert that influence?

You have put your finger on the button of an issue that's been bothering me about Westerosi cities for a long time. On the one hand, these are all cities that we know have urban charters - and we can see some areas in which those charters are functioning, in that these cities have walls, they have markets, they have warehouses, they have ports, and they have guilds and guild charters with guildhalls and the like.

What we do not see at all is any form of municipal government in any Westerosi city - King's Landing is directly ruled by the royal government, Oldtown is directly ruled by House Hightower, Lannisport by House Lannister, and so forth. The closest we've seen to a city council is various informal pressure groups of master smiths who liased with Tyrion about the boom chain.

So it seems like, when it comes to political rights, Westerosi urban charters are probably much more limited than their historical counterparts, largely because GRRM didn't want to write about city councils. Now, there are definitely urban officers, especially when it comes to collecting taxes and running the ports, but they would be appointed by the ruling lord of the city rather than being elected. Moreover, there seems to be a tendency for these officers to be selected from the ranks of younger sons of the nobility, scions of cadet branches, etc. But their subordinates in the bureaucracy are smallfolk, and sometimes they manage to scramble upwards.

In terms of burgher (or borough) rights, the fact that Westerosi cities are so demographically enormous suggests that there is a strong appeal for the smallfolk to move to cities. This suggests a certain amount of social opportunity, so urban residency probably means a freer legal and social status - they're definitely not serfs, but then again I don't think most Westerosi peasants are either. But "What sort of rights, privileges, protections and duties" are remains a bit vague.

As to the influence of guilds, it's definitely weaker than in Essos or actual medieval Europe, but it is there.

[lifewithaview]

What We Do in the Shadows (2019) City Council

S1E2

The vampires get embroiled in local Staten Island politics as their first step to world domination.

[radicalurbanista]

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August 9, 2022. Los Angeles

LA City Council deploys riot police at a public meeting to criminalize sitting and sleeping near a school and to fund police to enforce the measure.

[nonbinary-corvid]

i have recently become aware that city council and station management is not only a ship but canon? hello? have i been gas lit?

[whenweallvote]

Election Day is next week, and NOTHING is scarier than missing your chance to vote! 🎃🦇

Make your voting plan — and find out if any city council seats are on your ballot — at weall.vote/voterhub.

[gwydionmisha]

And this is why you vote the whole ticket and in every election.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Lev Koufax

On the evening of Dec. 4, the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly led a banner drop and disruption at a Baltimore City Council meeting. The demonstration was held to place pressure on the city to pass a resolution that calls for a ceasefire, pledges complete divestment from the Israeli government, and ends all training exchange programs between Baltimore law enforcement and Israeli security forces. 

[thoughtportal]

Abortion zoning

this is yet another reason it is so so important that we all show up to our local government meetings. go to your city and county websites and check out the agendas for each meeting and see what it is that your council is voting on. post about it on social media.

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