https://twitter.com/GuyOron/status/1665814820266946568
the city attorney and CMs sara nelson1 and alex pedersen, now joined by dan strauss, are pushing this initiative through the city council while completely skipping the committee process and apparently doing next-to-zero due diligence to ensure that it doesn't kill people or harm marginalized groups
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who, it should be repeated, is literally a drug dealer -- she runs a local "microbrewery" that produces 30 million gallons of beer a year, as of a decade ago -- and was until recently knowingly violating city law by blocking the curb lane of the streets outside her brewery with concrete blocks to prevent people camping in RVs from parking there
stories like this make it pretty easy to guess why: capitalism wants to turn cities into 24/7 moneymaking machines, running at full steam all the time, and that of course furnishes ample excuse to lock down urban centers with heavy policing. effectively the entire city is to become an "office park", always 'on'. https://archive.is/kSwyM ~Chara
