Carlos Montes was not expecting visitors at five a.m. After a confusing shuffle of flashlights, badges and broken doors, he ended up in the back seat of a police car in his pajamas, and with no idea of what was going on. They mentioned something about gun possession but it wasn’t clear. It was...
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After the police raid on Occupy LA, there came a steady chorus of praise for the Los Angeles Police Department’s handling of the eviction. Using City Hall as their brick-and-mortar Trojan horse, police poured out of the building, divided the park into sections and isolated protesters. Nearly 300 were arrested, each initially facing a...
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Cuts in bus service made by the MTA are singling out and punishing low-income residents, communities of color, students, the elderly and disabled, according to a panel at a recent forum on public transportation. The meeting, sponsored by the Bus Riders Union, along with over 30 other organizations, featured testimony from a panel of...
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Reporting from Orange County – Jim Arambula was sitting at the bus stop at the Fullerton Transportation Center when two men in suits came up to him. The men identified themselves as officials from the Orange County District Attorney’s office. They proceeded to question him about Kelly Thomas. Thomas was a 37-year-old schizophrenic homeless...
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Those with homes, as well as a few without, slept outside last night to raise awareness of, what critics say is, a growing movement to criminalize the homeless in Venice. Advocates say the city is attempting to remove a destitute population from the beachside community through various parking ordinances, such as disallowing overnight parking,...
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Pro-immigrant advocates rallied yesterday at Florence Avenue and Main Street to warn drivers of a police sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint. Standing down the street from the checkpoint, members of the Southern California Immigration Coalition, or SCIC, held placards warning motorists of the police stop. Their signs read “checkpoint” in both English and Spanish....
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Last year, 23 anti-war and justice activists in the Midwest were subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury regarding alleged material support for terrorism. There homes were raided by the FBI and their property – cell phones, computers, personal documents – were seized. What once had only occurred in the Midwest has now...
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Several community organizers spoke at an LAUSD board meeting today asking the school district to take a stand against what they see as an injustice regarding school police and their targeting of an high school student. Organizers are protesting the prosecution of Jeremy Marks, a special education student at Verdugo Hills High School, for...
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While many celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday yesterday through speeches, remembrances and parades, a few honored the civil rights leader by protesting law enforcement oppression. Activists gathered outside the Sheraton Hotel near LAX where U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. was being honored at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s annual gala and fundraiser....
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At a time when WikiLeaks is under attack for embarrassing the U.S. government and at a time when Al Jazeera has been shutdown in Kuwait for a similar act, California has a free speech and free press issue of its own. Revolution newspaper, a publication of the Revolutionary Communist Party, says it has been...
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