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Santa Cruz nixes mission bell: it’s “triggering”

In a Nov. 18 recommendation to the city council, the Historic Preservation Commission wrote that some California indigenous peoples view the tolling of the Santa Cruz Mission bells as a “colonial settler and racist symbol” that “glorifies the killing, dehumanization, forced labor and imprisonment of their ancestors.” [1]