Women’s rights advocates entered a Walgreens pharmacy yesterday in downtown Los Angeles to protest the Obama administration’s efforts to restrict access to the emergency contraceptive commonly known as the morning-after pill. On May 13, a federal appeals court granted the government’s request for a stay on U.S. District Court Judge Edward R. Korman’s order...
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Upset with Wells Fargo’s foreclosure practices, protesters held a demonstration yesterday that briefly shut down one of the bank’s branches in downtown Los Angeles. The action was organized by Occupy Fights Foreclosures, an Occupy Los Angeles subcommittee that has been assisting homeowners fight what they consider are fraudulent foreclosures. About 80 activists, which included...
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Another set of locks has been broken on a foreclosed home, this time for South Los Angeles resident Cathelene Hughes. On Sunday, April 21, members of the Los Angeles Anti-Eviction Campaign broke the locks on Hughes’ home located on the 9800 block on South Wall Street. “This feels great,” said Hughes, 72, who had...
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Supporters of the family of Jose de la Trinidad, a man shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies last November, marched and rallied again Saturday, April 20, demanding justice in what they say was a wrongful death. Demonstrators, comprised of anti-police brutality activists, as well as family and friends of victims of...
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Individuals from multiple activist organizations rallied at Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday, April 13, to call for an end of U.S. drone operations overseas. A significant number of civilian deaths, as well as the drone program’s questionable legal grounds, was the crux of the demonstration, which was held in concert with other protests...
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In May of last year, members of Occupy Los Angeles and homeless advocates held an occupation-style demonstration every night in front of LA’s downtown business lobby, the Central City Association. That action lasted about three months. Last night, about 35 protesters returned for a one-night stand. The demonstration was a continuance of last year’s actions...
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Supporters of Army PFC Bradley Manning gathered in front of a military recruitment center in Long Beach yesterday to mark Manning’s 1,000th day in military custody without a trial. Manning, 25, is accused of turning state secrets — the largest leak in U.S. history — over to the website WikiLeaks. Among the 22 charges...
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Over 100 demonstrators marched through Compton yesterday to protest the killing of Jose de la Trinidad by sheriff’s deputies. Converging on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Compton station, protesters demanded justice, not only for the Trinidad family, but for other victims of police shootings. De la Trinidad, 36, was killed by deputies on...
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For those seeking to shift politics and economics away from corporate capitalism and militarism, the means to their ends are often demonstrations, campaigns, movement building and, for those who think big, revolution. Electoral politics on the other hand is often considered a stifling sell-out, a symptom of the status quo, that leads only to...
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For months now, occupy activists have been conducting sit-in demonstrations at repossessed homes to fight what they argue are fraudulent foreclosures. Occupiers have been camped out at the Lucero residence in East Los Angeles for over 80 days now and at the Corona residence in Lincoln Heights since just before Christmas. Recently as well,...
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