A contingent of Occupy the Hood activists held a meeting in Pershing Square yesterday to raise awareness over the treatment of California inmates and the state’s third prisoner hunger strike in less than a year. On Dec. 19, 2011, three prisoners sent a petition to the California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR,...
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Roughly 100 demonstrators marched through downtown Los Angeles yesterday to show their support for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, an alleged government whistle-blower now on trial. Manning is accused of turning over hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, ranging from diplomatic cables, military ground reports and the 2007 video of an Apache helicopter...
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It may seem surprising for a spiritual man to publish an autobiography titled “Imagine No Religion,” but Blase Bonpane’s convictions are anything but ordinary. On Dec. 11, Bonpane visited The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles to deliver a short speech on themes related to his newly published book. Bonpane, known for his extensive...
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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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Due to the passage of a controversial immigration bill in Georgia, the U.S. Human Rights Network will hold its national conference in Los Angeles next month for “Human Rights Weekend.” In April, Georgia passed HB 87, a similar bill to Arizona’s SB 1070. The law grants Georgia police to check the immigration status of...
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California prison authorities announced last week the end of the inmate hunger strike at Pelican Bay State Prison. However, the issue over how California treats its prisoners is still far from resolved. On Friday, July 22, a group of roughly 50 demonstrators, many of whom are family and friends of striking inmates, assembled outside...
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On a morning in April 2010, Ethan McCord came home from dropping his children off at school. He sat down on his couch with a cup of coffee and turned on the television to see a grainy, black-and-white image of a soldier running across a street in Iraq with a child in his arms....
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Typically a conference on homelessness and poverty would only focus on gentrification, police abuse, public housing or tenants’ rights, but there is a recession and a new issue must also be addressed: foreclosures. This weekend, the Los Angeles Housing and Hunger Crisis Conference was held to provide a venue for groups to share information...
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Demonstrators calling for the removal of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stood outside the federal building in Westwood yesterday to express their solidarity with the pro-democracy protests that have gripped Egypt for nearly two weeks. The crowd of roughly 200 demanded the U.S. cut its aid to the Egyptian government and openly support the immediate...
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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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