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The California missions: A lot worse than most people realize

Posted on February 2, 2022 by Stephen Carr Hampton

It’s dawned on me that the California’s missions were a lot worse that most people realize—objectively a cross between the ISIS theocratic state and Nazi concentration camps. Call it California’s Gulag Archipelago. European visitors at the time were horrified by … Continue reading →

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Land acknowledgement: San Diego Bay, California

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I recently found myself staying in San Diego. It was a work trip related to oil spill response– one of the things we gotta do in the modern industrialized world: prepare for oil spills. Keeping with my new year’s resolution, … Continue reading →

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Protest Vandalism by Native Americans Considered a Hate Crime Against Spanish Missionaries

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In a surprising twist, the victims of genocide, who vandalized statues and gravestones of their ancestor’s oppressors, may be charged with a hate crime. The incident occurred last weekend at the Spanish mission in Carmel in the wake of the … Continue reading →

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