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Arts Announcements: HSLB Presents Centro de La Raza and Earth Day Youth Art Contest

The Centro, also known as East Long Beach Neighborhood Center, served thousands of diverse community members with housing, labor, arts…

2 years ago

Back to the Future: Controversy Over California’s Clean Transportation Plan

Another joint comment — signed by 30 groups, including Earthjustice, SEIU, 350.org and Communities for a Better Environment — warned…

2 years ago

A Radical Kind of Love

"I said, it's time for younger people to get their hooks into all of this. It's time to step aside…

2 years ago

Los Angeles Port Receives $3 Billion Boost for Clean Ports Initiative

Councilmember McOsker noted the economic benefits and the environmental harm to residents living in the port’s shadow face.

2 years ago

Bodies of Water

Water is the next, and perhaps final, frontier in the environmental push to save our planet. We are four years…

2 years ago

Dancing Waters Is Gone. Who Benefits?

So what would a more ethical, sustainable approach to development look like? “Actually responding to local housing needs rather than…

2 years ago

Women’s History Month Profile Meet LA Harbor Commissioner Diane Middleton: A Champion for Civil Rights and Worker Advocacy

  By Melani Morose Edelstein, Columnist The indomitable spirit of San Pedro’s own civil rights activist Diane Middleton burns bright.…

2 years ago

Remembering the Wobblies and the Klan 100 Years Later

Earlier this month, the San Pedro Neighbors for Peace and Justice and Code Pink commemorated the 100th anniversary of the…

2 years ago

Probation Offices Remain Open Amid Probation Officer Reassignment to Juvenile Halls

The department is looking at how to increase staffing levels and imploring innovative strategies and best practices to aid us…

2 years ago

Back to the Future: Controversy Over California’s Clean Transportation Plan

Almost 80% of California’s $4 billion clean transportation program went to subsidizing combustion fuels, rather than zero-emission vehicles and infrastructure…

2 years ago