Author Archives: Jose Calderon

About Jose Calderon

Jose Zapata Calderon is Emeritus Professor in Sociology and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies at Pitzer College, Past President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable of the Pomona Valley and San Gabriel Valley, and a community-based sociologist, educator, author, and organizer.

Memory: Roberto Cintli Rodriguez-Presente

A memory today from 2012 – when I ran alongside writer, professor, community organizer Roberto Cintli Rodriguez at a “Cross-Cultural Festival to Save Ethnic Studies” in Panorama City. As in this run, he was always there giving of his life to the future of our communities. His contributions will live on as examples for others and especially those younger generations who are picking up the baton. Roberto Cintli Rodriguez- Presente! Continue reading

California’s YIMBY and Abundance Movements for The Tech Oligarchs

This article reveals memos that exposes “the clearest picture yet of the political project behind California’s YIMBY and Abundance movements, a project funded by a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires” …. whose funding comes “overwhelmingly from the tech industry … and credits California YIMBY with helping to dismantle equity groups, labor, and NIMBYs,”
… translated into concrete legislative fights that repeatedly placed California YIMBY alongside the state’s most powerful landlord and real estate interests.”

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