STAN'S BLOGS

Sudan and California, albeit far fetched and worlds apart, may be running a strange immigration parallel? Although over-shadowed by Iraq warring, petty politics and lately the Iranian nuclear threat, the recent news on Sudan has actually been a continuous but muted headline for over three years. As many as 400,000 people have died and two million more have been driven from their homes since 2003 in the western Darfur region. " It's been described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis and threatening to get worse ," Fred De Sam Lazaro—PBS. Sudan's recent crisis dates back to their long-standing, illegal immigration policy and a unforeseen drought. Illegal immigration into Sudan from neighboring impoverished countries was not only ignored but invited as a national tradition, as long as times were good. Then the drought came and the people's attitudes suddenly changed. While I have yet to declare a firm position on immigration, I did find a strange parall

[Personal insight into the PBS airing of COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION (Episode 2: The Price of Renewal)] Largely immigrant community members – with the help of philanthropist Sol Price – achieved significant revitalization of the diverse San Diego inner city neighborhood of City Heights, despite all odds. —KVIE I moved from my newly developed, middle-class, two story, white-stucco walled/terra cotta tile roofed neighborhood in Roseville, CA to my present 1950s developed, mostly lower-class, single story, multi-color sided/mineral shingle roofed neighborhood in Hagginwood, CA to practice gentrification . I saw an opportunity to get in on something "at the ground floor" and ride its probable profit train right to the top. I didn't know that what I was doing was call gentrification and, being a long-time practicing capitalist, wouldn't have really cared if I did know. I had a goal in mind and it didn't include anyone that wasn't of a like-mind. Three things have ha