J.T. the L.A. Storyteller

For the 51st episode of our podcast, notes on the recent spate of attacks against Asian American & Pacific Islander communities, the assault on Echo Park by L.A. City Council Member Mitch O’Farrell’s office, and the importance of events at Echo Park this month for City Council District 13 going into the district’s biggest electionContinue reading EPISODE 51 – ECHO PARK SUN RISING →

For the 50th episode of our podcast, catch the LIVE recording of our third and final panel for Making Our Neighborhood: The Fight for Housing. Guests include Nina Suarez of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council, Samanta Helou-Hernandez of This Side of Hoover, Chancee Martorell of Thai Community Development Center, Roderick Hall of Pacific Urbanism, and Caroline CalderonContinue reading EPISODE 50 – THE FIGHT FOR HOUSING →

For our 49th episode, catch the LIVE recording of our second panel for Making Our Neighborhood: Documenting Gentrification. Guests include Nina Suarez and Jeffrey Maloney of the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council, Samanta Helou-Hernandez of This Side of Hoover, Stephano Medina of the Eviction Defense Network, Terra Graziani, Cate Carlson and Cris Lopez of the AntiContinue reading EPISODE 49 – DOCUMENTING GENTRIFICATION →

In our 48th episode, we give listeners the LIVE recording of our first panel for Making Our Neighborhood: Past: Redlining, Internment, and Resilience. Our fundraiser for translation services over the next two panels is nearly complete. Please visit our FUNDLY to support! J.T.

In our 47th episode, we chat with Samanta Helou-Hernandez, our fellow East Hollywood resident and cross collaborator who’s also co-hosting with yours truly for Making Our Neighborhood: Redlining, Gentrification and Housing in East Hollywood this Thursday, March 4th, ’21. Samanta and I discuss the background for this special event for our community, and about theContinue reading EPISODE 47 – HOW TO MAKE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD →

On this first episode of the new California Reader podcast, we quote Carey McWilliams’ Factories in the Field (1940), as well as an LA TIMES editorial from the good ole days of 1890. We also discuss the relation of these items to struggles for Black and migratory workers at companies like Uber and Lyft inContinue reading BONUS: THE CALIFORNIA READER – EP 1 →

In our 46th episode, we chat with Ali Rachel Pearl: @alirachelpearl, who teaches writing in one of USC’s honors programs, and who’s directing a very special art campaign drawing attention to our Redlining, Gentrification and Housing Panel Series with This Side of Hoover: @samanta_helou. In addition to details for the campaign, Ali and I chatContinue reading EPISODE 46 – REDLINING, GRAFFITI & MUTUAL AID IN EAST HOLLYWOOD →

The recorded version of “Housing in East Hollywood, with J.T.,” a free seminar by yours truly with members from in and around East Hollywood on February 2nd, 2021. To read the UCLA Luskin (@UCLALuskin) report on the rate of “corporate landlordship” in L.A. referred to in the Q & A session, find it HERE. HappyContinue reading EPISODE 45 – HOUSING IN EAST HOLLYWOOD WITH J.T. →

In our 44th episode, we chat with “Anon 1” & “Anon 2” of the East Hollywood Tenants Union, going over their origin stories with the organization, as well as some of the Union’s most recent actions, including a recent 7:00 AM protest in West Los Angeles outside a landlord’s residence calling for an end toContinue reading EPISODE 44 – EAST HOLLYWOOD TENANTS UNION →

In our 43rd episode, we catch up with none other than Bethanee Epifani. We talk inauguration, Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb,” vaccination in Los Angeles, and even $100,000 dollars. That’s right. If you’d like to support more of the work at jimbotimes.com, you can join us for a new adventure on Patreon at patreon.com/jimbotimes.Continue reading EPISODE 43 – THE POEM WE SIGN →