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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The Southern California Library unveiled its new mural yesterday to honor community organizers and their fight against police terror. The mural is dedicated to the organizations Mothers Reclaiming Our Children and the Coalition Against Police Abuse and its co-founder Michael Zinzun. Speaking to a crowd gathered for the unveiling, library director Yusef Omowale said...
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What started in Oakland on Jan. 1, 2009 reached a milestone yesterday at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles. It began with the killing of an unarmed man by police, the officer’s trial, his conviction and finally, his sentence. It was a quest for justice that, in the end,...
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Los Angeles was the recent scene of two actions that focused on police brutality. The first centered on police violence and community criminalization occurring across the country. The second sought a maximum sentence for a police officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter. On Friday, Oct. 22, the October 22nd Coalition held its 15th annual march...
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Peace and solidarity activists gathered outside the federal building in downtown Los Angeles yesterday to speak out against a series of recent FBI raids on peace activists in the Midwest. The Bureau says the raids are part of a terrorism investigation, but protesters argue it is an attempt to suppress free speech and political...
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The Los Angeles Police Department is once again finding itself immersed in controversy. This time it is over the killing of Westlake resident Manuel Jamines, a Guatemalan-born day laborer. According to police, Jamines...
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The meeting began with a prayer, a simple request to end an injustice and reunite families. It was a prayer asking for the end of California’s Three Strikes law.
They are a group of people – grandmothers, brothers, sisters, mothers – who have family members serving draconian prison sentences for non-violent offenses. They are members...
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