Check out our zine “Blueprint for Displacement: Breaking Down LAPD’s Echo Park Rehabilitation After Action Report” created in collaboration between Stop LAPD Spying, LACAN, and Street Watch LA. The zine centers on the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 16, 2019 CONTACTS: Pete White, Los Angeles Community Action Network, 213-434-1594 | petew@cangress.org Dan Stormer, Civil Rights Attorney & Board Member, National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles, 213-361-7751 | dstormer@hadsellstormer.com…
For Immediate Release: June 21, 2019 Press Contact: Pete White, petew@cangress.org, (213) 434-1594 What: Skid Row Town Hall w/ Peter Lynn, LAHSA CEO – 2019 Homeless Count Report-Out Where: Los Angeles Community Action…
The following section is adapted from a resource provided through the Showing Up for Racial Justice network. This information focuses on police unions nationally, and the similarities in aims, impact, power, and the function that…
The email goes out every weekday from the Mayor’s Unified Homeless Response Center to a long list of recipients in L.A.: Details of all planned cleanup operations. On any given day, plans can…
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — It was a contentious Los Angeles Police Commission meeting as protesters disrupted a number of speakers. The issue is a controversial data-driven program that tried to identify persons likely…
In a bid to get homeless veterans off the streets, Los Angeles awarded more than $10 million to help transform an unfussy building in Westlake into supportive housing. Now critics are arguing that the money…
The Los Angeles City Council voted 10-2 Wednesday in favor of settling a pending federal lawsuit filed by Skid Row residents. That suit, which accuses the city of unconstitutionally seizing and destroying their…
Kevin Recinos works full-time helping the homeless in Los Angeles as a Life Skills Coordinator, but when his rent increased by $200 per month, he himself became homeless. Now, he’s one of the…
It’s a decades-old problem. But a new store—and an ongoing effort to change things in Los Angeles—paints the picture in a fresh light. Earlier this month, Danny Park reopened his parents’ Los Angeles…
Best known for his ability to transform his subjects using custom made garments and his relationship to re-imagining contemporary Moroccan culture, artist Hassan Hajjaj has been dubbed the ‘Andy Warhol of Marrakech.’ And for good…
The Los Angeles City Council on Friday ordered a handful of city agencies to draw up an assessment of fleas and vermin at City Hall, with at least one member linking the problem…