James Lee

I am a Redwood City native and community activist. I ran for city council in 2013 as city's first openly gay candidate and the only candidate with a track record of advocating for affordable housing and environmental protection. My main website is HERE.

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Some more photos from today’s action! Earlier today around two thousand people showed up to a protest outside the ICE detention center in SeaTac, just outside Seattle. People of all ages, races, and backgrounds came to express their opposition to deportations and family separations, and to show solidarity to our undocumented friends and relatives imprisoned in the building. #NoBan #NoWall #AbolishICE #Seattle #SeaTac #DSA #Democrats #SocialistAlternative #KshamaSawant #Trump #politics #protests #WestCoast #PNW #ProsecuteICE #instagram #instamood #instagood #instadaily (at Federal Detention Center, SeaTac)

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Live from the ICE detention facility at SeaTac. #ReleaseThemNow #NoWalls #NoBorders #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE #ProsecuteICE #StopDeportations #instadaily #instagram #protests #politics (at Federal Detention Center, SeaTac)

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Quick stop to get a breath of fresh air while driving through Pacifica a few weeks ago #instagram #sightseeing #hikes #walks #instadaily #instagood #instagay #gay #man #fog #bayarea #westcoast (at Devil's Slide)

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It was a lovely day out at Horseshoe Cove on Monday at the Bodega Marine Lab. 😻😻 #ocean waves #seaweed #Bodega #SFSU #sand #beach #instatravel #travel #instagood #marinebiology #algae #🌊 😎😎 (at Bodega Marine Laboratory - University of California, Davis)

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Went back for Round 2 of this deliciousness yesterday. 😻😻 #elpescador #sandiego #seafood #instagram #🍤 (at El Pescador Fish Market)

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Another throwback. A sample from Pebble Beach at Bean Hollow State Beach in April 😍 #SanMateoCounty #stone #pebbles #beach #throwback #ocean #instagood (at Bean Hollow State Beach)

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A little video from yesterday taken at the ocean side of Cabrillo National Monument 😍😍😎😎 #🌞 #🌊 #travel #SanDiego #PointLoma #WestCoast #instagood #latergram (at Cabrillo National Monument)

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Lanna Thai in San Diego does an incredibly tasty (and Westernized) version of miang kham, which they call spinach wraps. 😻😻 #Thai #food #nomnom #miangkham #🍤 (at Lanna Thai Restaurant - San Diego)

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Grilled shrimp salad at El Pescador in #LaJolla 😻😻😻 #nom #🍤 #food (at El Pescador Fish Market)

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Spirogyra under the microscope 😍😍😍🌀🌀💚💚💚 #chloroplasts #science #biology #algae #CañadaCollege #RedwoodCity

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Fertilized sea urchin eggs and sperm as seen in through a phase contrast microscope 🔬👀 #biology #science #uni #seaurchin #latergram

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Quick tour of a bioengineering lab at @ucsc earlier today 😍😍🔬🌡📈📊⚖📐📝👀👀 #science #SantaCruz #UCSC #yas

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Bernie Sanders has deep roots in an American socialist tradition that once captivated millions.

Evidence suggests that, in the early 1960s, American college students favored pouring beer on their heads and dancing to “Louie Louie” over joining the Young People’s Socialist League (YPSL). But if anybody was likely to join the Socialist Party’s youth auxiliary, it was a brainy child of immigrant Jews, a son of Brooklyn — where Jewish voters had, for decades, cast ballots for socialists and liberals who resembled socialists.

For Bernie Sanders, socialism was something of a birthright.

Sanders began his political career under the tutelage of his older brother, Larry. President of Brooklyn College’s Young Democrats Club, Larry used to take Bernie to Manhattan’s Lower East Side to campaign against an urban renewal project that threatened to displace low-income residents.

It seems fitting that the country’s first serious socialist presidential candidate since the 1930s should have political roots in the Lower East Side — the cradle of New York socialism. Known as Kleindeutschland in the nineteenth century, the area’s German immigrants transplanted Karl Marx’s teachings to American soil and built a sturdy workers movement aligned with the Socialist Labor Party. Little Germany eventually gave way to “The Great Jewish Ghetto,” as more than five hundred thousand Yiddish-speaking immigrants streamed into the area.

The Jewish workers movement, modeled to a great extent on its German predecessor, grew into the largest, most powerful force in Jewish life. On any given day, Yiddish soapboxers dotted street corners and public squares. Political debates filled cafes and lecture halls. Escalating cycles of strikes and consumer boycotts fostered a culture of resistance.

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One last video clip from last night. :)

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Spotted while taking a photo, oop lol.

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6 April 2016 - Saw Aurora last night in San Francisco. She killed it!

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[Donald Trump] isn’t the problem. He hasn’t been the problem. There is a lot of stuff that’s been going on for many, many years that have gotten out of control, and now he represents that problem. And I think now we’re finally dealing with it. You know, there are a lot of people who follow him who are so grateful to be able to have the chance to maybe say 'spic’ again. They’re like, 'Yes! You know, this guy is talking to us, and he’s giving us permission.’ Because you know what? We’ve had this insane level of political correctness that has been glossing over the fact that things aren’t politically correct, that things are really devastating for a lot of people—black, white, brown, male, female, different religions, all of it. And we’ve been pretending like somehow we’ve broken through the ceiling, the glass ceiling for women, that because we have a president named Barack Hussein Obama, that we’re no longer racist. And that’s just not true. So, I think what we really have to talk about is not exactly what he’s saying individually, but what he represents and the fact that a lot of people behind him feel that way. And what are we going to do about that?

Rosario Dawson, interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! on 31 March 2016 after a Bernie Sanders event in the Bronx.