As we're having huge housing/homelessness crisis in LA, I helped 3 people stay in their homes Wednesday thru another successful mediation via grant-funded, volunteer-staffed free mediation prog @CityAttorneyLA's bizarrely killing: https://www.dailyjournal.com/articles/352987-preserve-la-s-dispute-resolution-program … (I'm a volunteer mediator
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Was weird to go into City Hall Wed while fighting
@CityAttorneyLA to unkill free mediation, but when I need character strength, I remember Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, where bunch of Holocaust Jews held off entire Egyptian Army for 5 days. Amy stand up to political suits? No probski!pic.twitter.com/hDEeiKwq3E
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By the way, in high school, I wrote an essay and won first prize and got a Fishman Scholarship trip to Israel. I actually worked on Kibbutz Yad Mordechai for a week during the trip. It was amazing. Here's 18-year-old me on the Kibbutz.pic.twitter.com/4CGdJQ5nbq
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OMG, this picture is hilarious! (in a good / endearing way!) so clearly you, and yet also such a different version of you!
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Thx. Me before I became full badass me! But been an activist all my life, long before fighting to get
@CityAttorneyLA to unkill valuable free mediation prog. I won award at 15 for HS newspaper column exposé, refused to reveal source to Principal/Supe threatening to suspend me2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
outstanding ; I love it!
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