Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 10, 2024
Portside
Fasten your seatbelts
Fasten your seatbelts
Fasten your seatbelts
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 15, 2023
Portside
Is Jason Aldean the MAGA Bieber? And other questions pondered
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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
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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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Los Angeles Hotel Workers Go on Strike
The New York Times
The strike is part of a wave of recent labor actions in the nation’s second-largest metropolis, where high costs of living have made it difficult for many workers — from housekeepers to Hollywood writers — to stay afloat.
They’re Trying to George Floyd Me!
Common Dreams
We are left wondering on what planet does distraught black man Keenan Anderson begging "Please help me" to police become "Please brutishly kill me"?
Friday Nite Videos | November 18, 2022
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McCarthy Is in for a Rough Ride | Nancy Pelosi Passes the Torch. Wish You Were Here | Afro Fiesta. Karen Bass Speaks After Winning LA Mayor's Race. Steve Bannon Lost. Inside the Great Teacher Resignation.
Karen Bass Speaks After Winning LA Mayor's Race
Mayor-elect Karen Bass names solving the homeless crisis as top priority after historic win.
Karen Bass Becomes First Woman Elected As Mayor of Los Angeles
New York Times
“These are general statements, OK? But women are more collaborative. Women are not as transactional. And I think women focus on different issues,” Bass said. “I think women tend to lead differently.”
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