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Ka yi tunanin wani gari mai kusan yawa
Masu jefa kuri'a na Jam'iyyar Green a matsayin 'yan Republican. Inda jerin marshes
yana kula da ruwan datti ta hanyar halitta. Inda kamfani mai suna Sunfrost
yana gina firji mafi inganci a duniya. ka
magana Arcata, California. Wannan garin kwalejin bakin teku da aka yi
kanun labarai na kasa kamar yadda ya zama na farko a kasar da aka zaba
Mafi rinjayen jam'iyyar Green Party zuwa majalisar birninsu. Nestled bayan
"Redwood Curtain" mil 280 arewa da San Francisco,
An fi sanin Arcata don yawan yawan mutanen da ba su da tsayi
"hippies" da kusancinsa zuwa The Emerald
Triangle – sanannen yanki na noman marijuana na ƙasa zuwa ga
kudu.
Amma Arcata birni ne mai ban sha'awa.
Login da kamun kifi sau ɗaya sun mamaye
Arcata, amma rashin amfani da albarkatun kasa, hade da
tashin Jami'ar Jihar Humboldt, ya jagoranci garin a cikin wani
hanya daban-daban. Yawancin mazaunan yau an jawo su zuwa
Arcata ta harabar kwaleji ko yanayin juriya da shi
halitta. Amma yawancin gundumar Humboldt da ke kewaye ba su da su
Juriyar Arcata. Ko da Sheriff Dennis Lewis ya kira garin
"Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Arcata." Kuma tun da yawa
Humboldt County da ke kewaye da garin ya yi
anti-muhalli salon rayuwa, tunanin tsibiri ya mamaye
Siyasar Arcata kamar cakudewar hazo da hayaki da hayaki
a cikin iska. Masu ci gaba a nan bisa ga al'ada an yi la'akari da haka
don iyawarsu ta dena faɗin komai a sarari
reshe da sauraron ra'ayoyin mutane ba tare da samun gaba ba. Idan
ka sake sake yin amfani da su kuma ka yi ɗan gajeren shawa kai ne mai takalmi ga jama'a
ofis, idan dai har kun goyi bayan "ecological"
zamba na ci gaban gidaje, ƙarin motocin 'yan sanda, da shiga cikin
gandun daji mallakar birni.
Don jajircewa, bumpersticker
ibada ta maye gurbin gwagwarmaya, yayin da masu fafutuka sama da 30 keɓe
da kansu a cikin kwanciyar hankali na musamman na ikon amfani da sunan kamfani
al'amurra.
'Yan tsiraru amma murya na
masu ra'ayin mazan jiya sun sami tushe na tallafi a cikin kasuwancin Arcata
al'umma, kuma masu ci gaba a koyaushe suna tafiya
kauce musu. A cikin siyasar Arcata, babu abin da ya fi muni
ana ihu da wani daki mai cike da tuta. Domin kasuwanci
mutane da abokansu - ciki har da masu sassaucin ra'ayi da yawa - sun sami gani
na marasa gida da suka taru a wuraren jama'a abin ban haushi, masu fita
Majalisar birnin a bara ta kai karar Food Not Bombs, kungiyar da ke hidima
abinci kyauta kullum akan dandalin garin.
Magajin gari a lokacin, a
"mai ci gaba" mai suna Victor Schaub,
ya goyi bayan karar har ma ya amince da wani mai hannun dama, Carl
"Zan-Bayan-Ka" Pellatz, a zaben da aka yi kwanan nan.
Pellatz ya ba da goyon baya kuma ya yi barazana ga waɗanda ke adawa da "babban
akwatin" kantin sayar da kayayyaki da ci gaban gidaje mai raka'a 800 yana motsawa
zuwa gari.
Yayin da barazanar Taco Bell
Sakamakon buɗewa kusa da Jami'ar Jihar Humboldt a kowace rana
barna ta siyasa a kan ikon amfani da sunan kamfani, da yawa
sarƙoƙin abinci mai sauri a gefen arewa na gari ba a gani, hankali
da cutarwa kusa da injinan allo na Louisiana-Pacific, inda mafi yawa
masu ci gaba ba kasafai suke tafiya ba.
Babban latsa touting
Arcata a matsayin Ecotopia na zamani ba zai ambaci cewa baƙi sun samu ba
Lambobin lambobi na "Rush" Limbaugh akan kusan da yawa
ababen hawa kamar yadda masu wasa "Ajiye Mahaifiyarka" da kuma
Kamar
Ƙananan ɓangaren mazauna ma
ya iske na karshen irin direban munafunci ne, ya gwammace ya samu
kewaye da keke ko da ƙafa. Don haka ba abin mamaki bane cewa Arcata
gidajen Times-Free Times, mujallar kwata-kwata ga waɗanda
bayar da shawarar hanyoyin da za a bi don ƙarin hanyoyi da motoci.
Wataƙila a karon farko
na ƙasa a cikin Age na Mota, Arcata na memba biyar
majalisar birni tana da rinjaye na kyauta, kuma. Dimokuradiyya daya ce ta mallaka
ba shi da kyauta ta atomatik, yayin da ɗayan Green shine goron keke wanda ya yarda da shi
lokaci-lokaci ta amfani da motar iyali.
Tabbas, Arcata ya bayyana yana a a
juyawa. Sabuwar majalisar birnin Green na iya yin girgiza lokaci-lokaci
daga tsattsauran ra'ayi, siyasa mai karewa a baya. Duka
'Yan majalisar Green su uku suna adawa da karar majalisar da ta gabata
a kan Abinci Ba Bom ba da niyyar haɗawa da haɓaka kusan
Kadada 200 na filin noma. Abin mamaki, majalisar da ta gabata
wanda ake zaton yana da rinjayen ci gaba - kwanan nan kuma
muhawarar da ke tafe tana raba masu ci gaba na gaske da
wayoyin hannu. Don haka da alama siyasar ci gaba na iya wuce gona da iri
sabon sake yin amfani da su, takin gargajiya da kuma kula da ruwan sha
ayyukan.
"Na ga wannan gwajin Koren
a matsayin dama ga sauye-sauye da yawa, "in ji Green zaune
dan majalisa Jason Kirkpatrick. "Ina so in kula
Yanayin ƙananan gari na Arcata ta hanyar duba cikin haramta manyan
wuraren sayar da sarkar kamfanoni." Kirkpatrick kuma
yana so ya magance haɗin gwiwar cikin gida da gina cibiyar matasa.
Amma kar a yi tsammanin canji na gaske
wani lokaci nan da nan.
“Akwai jaraba da yawa
don yin abubuwa, amma ba za mu kusa toshe kashe hudu ko biyar ba
tituna kuma a ce 'Tafiya kawai,' "in ji Bob Ornelas, sabon
zababben dan majalisar Green.
"Ina tsammanin jam'iyyar Green Party ta shiga
Arcata da gaske ya zama na yau da kullun, ”in ji Kirkpatrick.
"Arcata ya bambanta da sauran kasar, kowa da kowa
a nan san abinci mai gina jiki yana da kyau a gare ku kuma wannan takin shine
lafiya."
Lokacin da sabuwar majalisa za ta zabi sabon
magajin gari don maye gurbin Pellatz mai barin gado, Kirkpatrick yana tunanin
majalisar za ta zabi dan Democrat Jim Test a kan daya daga cikin uku
Ganye.
"Zai yi kama da fascist idan
kawai mun kwace, ”in ji Kirkpatrick.
Randy Ghent muhalli ne
mai fafutuka wanda ya rayu a Arcata tun 1991