Zaire "Coach Z" Calvin

He did everything day by day.

Yes, I'm Zaire Calvin. I'm a community organizer. They call me the unofficial mayor of Altadena since we have a county supervisor. Been working hard for the protections of Altadena and making sure all the disaster capitalism, to make sure that we're protected and building back. A year from today I lost my sister in the fire, lost five homes.

I lost cars, lost everything. Just tremendous loss and then tremendous loss for the community. And just been fighting ever since then. I have a program that I run, extremeathletics.org, and that focuses on the eradication of type 2 diabetes and sports athletes and even our elders and our youth and mental health. So...

Tuo programmi auttoi minua ilmoittamaan, ja minäkin olin koulutusjärjestäjä. Olen tehnyt paljon työtä yhteisössä ja olen johtanut yhteisöä.

Se antoi minulle voimaa ja vahvuutta, jotta ymmärtäisin, että se oli hänen edustuksensa, koska alussa se oli näyttää koko ympäristöni, mutta myös ymmärtää, että vanha ympäristö, vanha ja rauha ympäristö yleensä on ympäröivät ja ympäröivät, joten alussa se oli

to make sure that all those voices were heard also, especially since it's a black community, 80 percent home ownership higher than the national average, and a lot of my elders. So for that was my igniting

I was forced in the beginning was just to make sure that everyone was heard. And then all my neighbors, all my Jewish, Asian, just a collective, because I've been born and raised there and have always been a protection for my community. So before this, it was only fitting that this pushed me

Tämä on tärkeä intro. Olemme käyneet kaikkia asioita, kuten turvallisuutta, perinteisiä maanjohtajia ja kaikkia asioita, jotka ovat käyneet kaikilla puolilla. Uusi käyneemme on rakennus.

that everyone is running into now. Getting all of your plans through, that's happening in some type of cohesion, and hopefully that opens up more. But the construction side of

We're already starting to see the predatory construction people come in into overbidding, pricing out people, and then also taking too many projects where they're not going to be able to finish in the two-year period that is set in our alternative and native rebuild plan. So it's a lot. I'm not trying to get you to point fingers or anything like that.

Yeah, no. The things that are happening, the difference with Mayor Bass for us is we have a county supervisor who is over our side of the track. So she actually doesn't do our side of making sure things happen. Oh, because city versus county, that type of thing. Yeah, that's why they have me as the unofficial mayor running around. I understand.

I'm absolutely infuriated. I'm mad at the person who burnt us down more so, which is Edison. Edison has the ability right now.

um to pay out and make sure that everybody is back in their homes right now or at least our last campaign has been for them to pay for an adu on everyone's property to give two hundred thousand dollars toward that adu edison has the money which does not come out of their pocket it comes out of a fund that was created you know to protect

So they won't even pay for any of the disasters that they've caused, but then they're still holding up that fund while we still don't have housing, while we still don't have the money to be back in our homes and our ALEs are about to run out, our alternative living expenses from our insurance for the ones who had it, and for the people who are unhoused, there's people still living in cars, there's still people in hotels. So Edison...

Oh, I agree with all of that.

It's been a beautiful thing. I'm glad the community loves you for giving this opportunity. Everyone's heard from the last report. Of course there's Fair Oaks Burger, there's King's Burger, Junior Burger on Woodbury. There's Suri Thai food on Lake. Those are the main hubs of

The businesses that need to be frequent. And just come to Altadena and please come eat when you have a chance. Spend your dollars. Please spend your dollars, because we need them, especially during this hard time.