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PRESS CONFERENCE AND PROTEST “Gentrification Strikes Again “ A Historical Community Center in the Black Community The SECRET closing of a well-known center in the black community located in the Crenshaw District has been targeted for a project that Called “Destination Crenshaw”, feeds no one, houses no one, and assists no one. They wait until Black History Month, in order to slap the community in the face yet again, by the taking of more services. In 2018 AFIBA Center members joined with others in the community and [...]

By |2021-03-01T03:10:38-05:00March 1st, 2021|Anti-Racism/Racism, Beyond Capitalism, Black Lives Matter, Economy, Gentrification/Displacement, Heroes and Whistleblowers, Housing, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, Politics|0 Comments
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Don’t Let Them Use “Domestic Terrorism” to Criminalize Our People Again

Senator Biden speaks at the signing of the 1994 Biden Crime Bill as Attorney General Janet Reno, President Bill Clinton, and local law enforcement officials look on. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) By Shakeer Rahman, Pete White, and Hamid Khan Joe Biden returning to power in this moment is ominous. As Democrats retake the presidency, Trump devotees have shown they can supplement their harm toward Black and brown people with violent defiance of the political system. Across the mainstream partisan spectrum, their actions are begrudgingly referred to as “domestic [...]

By |2021-01-30T04:17:20-05:00January 30th, 2021|Activism, Biden, Commentary, Gentrification/Displacement, Hamid Khan, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Movements, National Security, Police, Politics, Solidarity, Surveillance|0 Comments
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Eviction Crisis Looming

L.A. Campaign Proposes Solutions Freedom Socialist newspaper, Vol. 41, No. 6, December 2020-January 2021 https://www.socialism.com The US has a massive unhoused population. The National Low-Income Housing Coalition predicts that 30-40 million people, 30-40% of currently housed renters, could lose their lodging in the next several months. In the midst of this crisis, the Freedom Socialist Party calls for cancelling rent and mortgage payments for those in need. Across the country, grassroots activists have pressured local governments to help solve this crisis. One group is End Homelessness Now–LA [...]

By |2020-12-31T02:50:38-05:00December 31st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Big Business, California, Economy, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Low income, Movements, News|0 Comments
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Open Letter: Social Housing with Supportive Services

Los Angeles City Council members L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti Chief Legislative Analyst Sharon Tso Chief Administrative Officer Richard Llewellyn Housing and Community Investment Department (HCID) Director Ann Sewill Subject:  Social Housing - Council File: 20-0197 The End Homelessness Now-LA Campaign and the endorsers listed below are deeply concerned about the plight of the unhoused and low-income residents in our community. Today, L.A.’s homelessness catastrophe is compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to be plagued by systemic racism, and will greatly worsen when hit with a tsunami of [...]

By |2020-12-31T02:49:54-05:00December 31st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Capitalism, Commentary, Economy, Economy, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Human Rights, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News|0 Comments
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How L.A. Keeps the Poor, Poor

How Los Angeles Keeps the Poor, Poor by Gayle Fleury https://citywatchla.com/index.php/cw/los-angeles/20715-how-los-angeles-keeps-the-poor-poor Of the 15 Council Districts in the city of Los Angeles, there are a few that house the most homeless and have the poorest people. Those are Districts 3, 4, and 15, seeing a jump of from 45-53% in homelessness, while other Districts had an increase of 10-30% I live in CD 15, Joe Buscaino’s district. The Harbor and the Port are located here, one of the three big moneymakers for the City of LA. The [...]

By |2020-12-01T20:49:30-05:00December 1st, 2020|Commentary, Gentrification/Displacement, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Poverty, Protests and Rallies|0 Comments
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People Get Ready

People Get Ready:  There's a Bad Moon on the Rise by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA (https://antiracist.org) As you read this, there is barely a month to election day. What are you doing to prepare for the possible outcomes and their consequences? Given recent realities, including vehicles being driven at racial justice protesters here in L.A., the murder of two protesters in Kenosha, exposures of organized racist violence being planned in Portland, the repeated refusals by Trump to say he will commit to a peaceful transfer of power, it [...]

By |2020-10-03T18:19:27-05:00October 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Biden, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, Commentary, Constitution, COVID-19, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economy, Elections, Environment, Gentrification/Displacement, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Labor, LGBTQ+, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Michael Novick, Movements, News, Palestine, Peace and War, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Russia, Security and Insecurity, Socialism, Surveillance, Unity, Voting, War|0 Comments
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October 2020 So Cal Community Calendar

URGENT UPDATE: Supreme Court lets Trump end Census early The US Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling and has allowed Trump to end census data collection on October 15!! Be sure to complete the 2020 census form for your household IMMEDIATELY.  GO TO: HTTPS://census2020.govorCALL:for English 1-844-330-2020for Spanish 1-844-468-2020for Haitian Kreyol 1-844-477-2020.Help is available in other languages. See:https://2020census.gov/en/languages.html  Apportionment of many legislative and Congressional seats, and allocation of federal program funding rely on the figures from the decennial census (every 10 years by Constitutional mandate). Trump has [...]

By |2020-10-15T03:54:13-05:00October 1st, 2020|Activism, Ads, Africa, Anti-Racism/Racism, Arts, Banks, Black Lives Matter, California, Commentary, COVID-19, Democracy, Disability issues, Elections, Gentrification/Displacement, Health, Human Rights, Immigration/Migrant rights, Independent Journalism, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, National Security, News, Peace, Peace Vigils, Poetry Corner, Police Brutality, Politics|0 Comments
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Peace Center on the Chopping Block

SAVE THE LOS ANGELES PEACE CENTER! Update: CA Attorney General has blocked the sale. Since 1989, the Peace Center, created and funded through the generosity of Aris Anagnos, has provided rent-free offices and meeting spaces to diverse peace and justice groups throughout Los Angeles, enabling them to focus on the work they do best: educating and organizing for justice. The Peace Center’s continued existence is now being threatened. The building is for sale, and all the tenants have been told to leave.   To ensure that the [...]

By |2020-09-07T22:31:25-05:00September 2nd, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Aris Anagnos, Beyond Capitalism, California, Commentary, Free Speech, Gentrification/Displacement, Human Rights, Independent Media, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News, Peace, Peace and War, Social Media|0 Comments
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The Oxnard Civil “Gang” Injunction is Officially Dead

The Oxnard Civil “Gang” Injunction is Officially Dead A Victory for the People and the Constitution By Armando Vazquez In a news release on Tuesday, July 21, 2021 it was reported that the “Oxnard Police Department Will Work With District Attorney’s Office to Vacate Civil Gang Injunctions” Since 2004, Chiques Organizing for Rights and Equality (CORE), has been organizing and fighting in the community and the courts for the total rescission of the two unconstitutional Oxnard Civil “Gang” Injunctions. Our CORE fight has been foundationally based on [...]

By |2020-08-01T18:26:24-05:00August 1st, 2020|Activism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Chican@-Mexican@-Latinx, Constitution, Gentrification/Displacement, Ventura County|0 Comments
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The Power of the People is the Force of Life

The Power of the People is the Force of Life by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) I was sent the following link to a piece worth reading by Henry Giroux: A searing and penetrating essay by Henry Giroux: https://truthout.org/articles/racist-violence-cant-be-separated-from-the-violence-of-neoliberal-capitalism/ Giroux is a powerful critic of fascist trends based on white supremacy and capitalism. But I don't know exactly why he often has a failure of nerve, or of something, when he draws towards solutions. For example in this piece, after the searing indictment, he [...]

By |2020-06-12T02:03:28-05:00June 9th, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, California, Capitalism, Commentary, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Economy, Education, Elections, Garcetti, Gentrification/Displacement, Historical, Human Rights, Independent Journalism, Indigenous, Indigenous Nations, Justice/Injustice, Labor, Michael Novick, Movements, National Security, News, People, Police, Police Brutality, Politics, Poverty, Prisons, Protests and Rallies, Socialism, Solidarity, Unity, War|1 Comment
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Los Angeles and the Country Enflamed by Racist Police Murders

Check out this account of recent police killings, shootings and other attacks in L.A. by cops, deputies & CHP, and an amazing photo-essay: https://www.lataco.com/la-black-lives-matter/ Hundreds Block 101 in Protest of Police CHP Hits, Hospitalizes Demonstrator, Protests Escalate As Change Links went to press, 100s of people from BLM-LA, AIM and other groups blocked the 101 freeway in DTLA to protest the police execution of George Floyd in Mpls, and the racist police murders with impunity in LA. A CHP vehicle accelerated into the crowd as demonstrators swarmed [...]

By |2020-06-01T14:10:40-05:00June 1st, 2020|Anti-capitalism, Anti-Racism/Racism, Black Lives Matter, California, COVID-19, Economy, Events, Gentrification/Displacement, Human Rights, Independent Media, Jails, Justice/Injustice, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Movements, News|0 Comments
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Fight the virus with permanent supportive public housing.

by End Homelessness Now-LA   An April article in the  LA Times, “Affordable housing can cost $1 million per apartment in California. Coronavirus could make it worse,” provides a powerful argument for creating and operating permanent public housing for low income and very low income members of our community.   As the COVID-19 pandemic has brutally revealed, a system based on every fat cat out to make the highest possible profit is categorically incapable of meeting human needs.  Just as we need a universal, public healthcare system [...]

By |2020-05-31T23:56:45-05:00May 31st, 2020|Activism, Anti-capitalism, Banks, California, Commentary, COVID-19, Disability issues, Economy, Economy, Gentrification/Displacement, Health, Health, Health Care, Healthcare, Homelessness, Human Rights, Los Angeles, Movements, Politics, Poverty, Solidarity, Unions|0 Comments
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