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The Crucial Years
A few thoughts on the last day of the old world
A few thoughts on the last day of the old world
A few thoughts on the last day of the old world
Los Angeles Burned, Now They’re Coming for Karen Bass
Word In Black
The first woman and second-ever Black person to serve as mayor of Los Angeles is under attack by conservative trolls like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 14, 2025
Portside
Judgement Day for the merchants of death
‘This Is Unprecedented’: Several Horrific Wildfires Ravage Los Angeles
Common Dreams
"There is no 'firefighting' in these kinds of conditions," said one meteorologist. "There is only saving as many lives as possible and getting the heck out of the fire's way."
labor
How Labor Can Fight Trump’s Authoritarianism
Convergence
Labor must adopt an intensified ‘Block and Build’ strategy for the coming years as it organizes broad labor, community, and political alliances against authoritarianism.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 10, 2024
Portside
Fasten your seatbelts
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 15, 2023
Portside
Is Jason Aldean the MAGA Bieber? And other questions pondered
labor
Thousands of Los Angeles City Workers Stage 24-Hour Strike. Here’s What They Want.
USA Today
About 11,000 city workers took to the picket lines on Tuesday in the first work stoppage in the country's second-largest city in more than 40 years.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 1, 2023
Portside
Summer of our discontent
labor
The SAG-AFTRA Actors’ Strike Shows L.A. Is Leading the Labor Movement
Los Angeles Times
L.A. was the city where the ethnicity and ideology of union leadership came to reflect the heterogeneous character of its working class and remake the movement. This took root in the 1990s when Miguel Contreras transformed the Federation of Labor.
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