March 18, 2023: Desert Hot Springs Tour led by Abraham Duran

  • One of the schools (either elementary or middle school) is built right on the fault line, the danger of its location isn’t really addressed in the school, but they do practice earthquake drills frequently 

  • Gangs recruit students after school, students are peer pressured into joining from friends

  • Drug deals happened at the older library 

  • Most homes have limited access to wifi 

  • Street vendors have been deported

  • More affluent community in Desert Hot Springs visibly separate from less affluent communities (gated communities looks completely different across the street)

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April 11, 2023 - 4:46pm

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Anonymous, "March 18, 2023: Desert Hot Springs Tour led by Abraham Duran", contributed by Katie Vo, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 11 April 2023, accessed 1 December 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/march-18-2023-desert-hot-springs-tour-led-abraham-duran