FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Human Rights Violations in Los Angeles For Immediate Release: December 11, 2018 Contact: Pete White, Los Angeles Community Action Network (213) 228-0024 | petew@cangress.org Human Rights in Los Angeles: Still…
Mayor Eric Garcetti was forced to halt a speech Monday at USC after demonstrators began shouting at him and criticizing his approach to the city’s homelessness crisis, the Los Angeles Police Department’s use…
When Silvia Hernandez first immigrated to California over two decades ago, she worked tirelessly to support her family. After holding jobs in sweatshops, factories, and housekeeping, she pursued a cosmetology license and began…
On his way out the door after being fired by President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions did one last thing to seal his legacy at the Justice Department: he issued a memo. His primary…
Scripps Student Organizers, a group of approximately 20 Scripps College and 5C students interested in campus organizing, coordinated for 5C students to attend the #MeToo Survivors’ March in Los Angeles Nov. 10. #MeToo…
(CN) – In less than three weeks, California’s 19 million voters will decide a slate of midterm ballot measures aimed at easing the state’s affordable-housing crisis, but not all initiatives may bring residents…
David Wagner and Gemma Atticks provides an overview of the causes and cures for homelessness from an often-neglected perspective — the experiences of people on the streets. You can’t always judge a book…
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to crack down on people who repeatedly disrupt their meetings at City Hall, defying attorneys and activists who charge that the new rules trample on…
DTLA – In April 2016, United State District Court Judge James Otero made a key ruling in the case known as “Mitchell vs. City of Los Angeles.” He issued a temporary injunction that prevented…
Last month, California became the first state to completely abolish the cash bail-bond system for suspects awaiting trial. “Today, California reforms its bail system so that rich and poor alike are treated fairly,”…
It’s true that Skid Row has a serious drug problem, William tells me, peering out of the two-man tent he shares with his wife. He calls his block, a dense thicket of tarps…
Civil liberties attorneys and community activists are fighting a proposed crackdown on people who disrupt public meetings at Los Angeles City Hall, arguing that the measure would violate their rights to free speech. Under the…