#community-conflict

#community-conflict

The Christmas lights have gone up in Stirchley. A multifaith mix of stars and swirls add a festive air to the lamp-posts along the main street of this south Birmingham suburb. Stirchley is a modest kind of place, sandwiched between better known (and better off) areas such as Bourneville and Moseley, but there is plenty of evidence here of the lively community spirit that last year resulted in the area being named the best place to live in the Midlands.

For nearly 20 years, Diane Williams has seethed whenever she walked by a street mural depicting the genocide of Ohlone people by Spanish colonizers artwork she finds demeaning because the Native American men are depicted as fully nude. Just this week, plans to remove the wall art were halted at the last minute, after tenants of the building's apartments at 41st Street and Piedmont Avenue demanded that the history on display be left alone.

Today, the Rio Blanco mining camp in south-central Ecuador lies in ruins. Shattered china litters the ground not far from a hollowed-out kitchen with no walls left standing. An abandoned mine tunnel as wide as a house stands on a hillside, overlooking the charred remains of a diesel station. In 2018, environmentalists hailed Rio Blanco's closure as a landmark win for conservation.

Sausalito couple Jake Beyer and Georgia Glassie have faced community backlash over their home remodel, leading to police involvement, restraining orders, and viral disputes.

Being Japanese American, we were put in the camps. My mom and dad actually got married in a concentration camp in Wyoming. So we're very sensitive to this cause.

A seven-year, 250,000 neighbours' row over a few inches of land, sparked by a doctor's garden tap, has been blasted as 'ridiculous' by a top judge.