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The Most Insidious Form of Censorship

Not being invited to the meeting I was reminded this week that one of the subtlest yet insidious forms of…

4 years ago

Trio of New Bills Could Fix Badly Broken Port Drayage System

“Wage theft, unsafe working conditions, no safety net. This is the reality of thousands of port drivers like me,” said…

4 years ago

OP/ED Unpaint That Picture

Might you acknowledge in some self-reflective place, that you’re not the same person you were last month, last week, or…

4 years ago

Remembering The Armenian Genocide 04/24/1915

Too often, there are those who would deny such actions or attempt to erase it from history. April 24th is…

4 years ago

OG-SAN: I HATE HATE

David hammered home example after example where the API community fought back against such anti-Asian attacks.

4 years ago

Deepwater Horizon: Corporate Homicide

If you don’t know about the earlier blow-out, it’s because BP didn’t tell you, didn’t tell anyone but its drilling…

5 years ago

A Democratic Food System Means Unions for Farmworkers

The boycott was a participatory, democratizing strategy, and since then it has become a powerful tool for community-based union organizing.…

5 years ago

Economic Refugees and Safe Encampments

I find it curious that on the very night that the last Los Angeles City Council District 15 homeless working…

5 years ago

California’s Promising New Climate Agenda — Activists Weigh In

As we reported last month, California’s environmental record last year was abysmal — just 74% on the “Environmental Scorecard” from…

5 years ago

Farmworkers Need Families, Not Deportation And Exploitation

Today the Biden administration is seeking ways to undo the damage to immigrants and workers wrought by Trump's executive orders.…

5 years ago