January 5, 1946 - May 25, 2026 Dorothy Kathleen Herrera Settlage of Los Angeles, California, passed away unexpectedly on May 25, 2026, at the age of 80. Born in Los Angeles on January 5, 1946, Dorothy grew up in Visalia and Bakersfield. She earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from UCLA and went on to earn her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the People’s College of Law in 1986. She was a probation [...]
Is the cause too few housing units or too much poverty? By Dick Platkin LA is suffering a major crisis of homelessness and overcrowding, especially among families. Is the cause static incomes colliding with sharply increased housing costs or is the culprit a housing shortage “addressed” by State Senator Scott Weiner’s legislation? His latest bill. SB79, permits the construction of tall apartments by up-zoning lots near transit lines. The up-zoning arguments come [...]
Labor and Community Demands on the LA Olympics by the Fair Games Coalition Los Angeles will become the mega events capital of the world over the next several years. During 2026 through 2028, our city will host—among other events—the FIFA World Cup, the Super Bowl, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Such mega events and the massive investments required to make them happen should have a positive impact for the city’s residents, [...]
Olympic Reform Efforts Are Setting Us Up for a Double Disaster by the NOlympicsLA Coalition https://nolympicsla.com/2025/11/11/fighting-the-forever-games/ The Olympics have always been sold as temporary — a two-week spectacle of worldwide unity and athletic exceptionalism that brings honor (and infrastructure) to its rotating host city. With LA28 now less than 1,000 days away, the myth of Olympic legacy is breaking down, with reform campaigns multiplying and officials scrambling to make word salad slide [...]
Fairly Warned: CDCR Rehabilitation By A. Ramírez, California State Prison When the choice to die of hunger – Strike! is better than to live – because there is no Rehabilitation! Where the Valley blows of Virus – Disease! in a prison that men can’t leave – thwart the hope of Rehabilitation! If their livelihood is based upon a prisoner’s return – Complex! on the outside or the inside with [...]
Rest in Power, Benito Flores, Presente! from Solidarity Research Center With deep love, respect, and admiration, we mourn the heartbreaking loss of our beloved Reclaimer, Benito Flores. Please donate towards Benito’s burial expenses, housing costs for Reclaimers, and ongoing Reclaiming Our Homes campaigns. Benito was one of the last two Reclaimers still standing against the state-sanctioned violence that continues to dispossess our families, friends, and communities of their homes. He stood boldly [...]
From Protect Medicaid via moveon.org The House bill would rip away lifesaving health care from 16 million people. The Senate's proposed cuts are even harsher: The bill would impose damaging work requirements on Medicaid recipients that will take health care away from parents, people with disabilities, and patients with chronic illnesses. It will make it harder for people to enroll in Medicaid or maintain their coverage and eliminates coverage for people who [...]
CalRX is making biosimilar insulin available to Californians who need it to treat diabetes at low cost, and has now extended the offered medication to include naloxone which is used to combat overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, to prevent fatalities. Insulin can be found here: https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/, and naloxone here: https://calrx.ca.gov/naloxone/ The state's website described the latter initiative as follows: $24 Over-the-Counter Naloxone by CalRx® The ongoing opioid overdose crisis across the nation [...]
The Green Halcones Co-operative is Making Big Strides in 2025 by Collective Remake The Green Halcones have been hard at work! Working RootDown LA, they dug deep into a political education of our food system, learned about organic and natural methods of fertilization, and pest management, and shared new healthy cooking techniques. They have cleaned up the East side of the Vermont Square Community Garden, are actively caring for the trees, and [...]
"When “I" becomes “We", even Illness becomes Wellness.” --Malcolm X by Maureen Cruise It is deeply saddening to lose our Palisades home of 50 years and everything in it, except for a car, cell phone, a computer and a gym bag of clothes. Some of those things lost in the fire were irreplaceable, attached to deep memories and had special meanings. We loved that home and neighborhood where we raised a family [...]
by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org/rebuilding-los-angeles/ The incineration of large parts of the Los Angeles area represents the extent to which settler colonial capitalism has sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind. It is the outcome of generations, centuries, of exploitation, land theft, genocide, privatization, gentrification, fossil fuel extraction and other social ills, economic crimes, and political malfeasance. In the wake of the massive and ongoing destruction, [...]
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