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===== For 50 years I’ve let friends and strangers share my house – this kind of communal living can make for better lives for all ===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/11/for-50-years-ive-let-friends-and-strangers-share-my-house-this-kind-of-communal-living-can-make-for-better-lives-for-all by Lynne Segal 11/11/23 The Guardian] | |||
It’s more than half a century since I first set foot in Heathrow from Sydney, in my mid-20s, clutching my 14-month-old baby in one hand and what little remained of my luggage in the other. My large suitcase, stuffed with books and clothes, had vanished at a stopover at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka, where I narrowly avoided arrest as my infant son had startlingly managed to push an empty trolley into the glass duty-free shop, smashing part of it. I was surrounded by a hubbub of people and noise, and one man in khaki uniform who kept sidling up to me saying quietly, “Get on to the plane.” Slowly, I separated myself from those surrounding me and did just that. Twelve hours later, I landed in London, exhausted and bewildered. | |||
===== As Los Angeles burned, Latino immigrants rushed in to put out fires ===== | ===== As Los Angeles burned, Latino immigrants rushed in to put out fires ===== | ||
