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UCLA Labor Center study finds county relies on laborers – largely people of color – threatened with debts and jail to do work that would otherwise be paid.
The effort aims to send a message that the party is in danger of eroding a critical base if it continues to back the Green New Deal resolution being pushed in Washington, D.C. by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her allies.
The book under review documents a century of struggle against the partitioning of groups on the basis of race through property markets, constructions of community, and the scourge of neoliberalism, revealing racialist ideology and means to end it.
“We’re a community fighting for legal permanent status for our families. We’re not victims.”
The Los Angeles teachers’ strike, organized by the 33,000 strong Unified Teachers Los Angeles, went into its fifth day Jan. 18.
A teacher walkout would cast the strike as a challenge to the creeping absorption of public schools by charter management organizations.
PFAS compounds have been detected in water sources throughout California, including, background sources say, the groundwater at LAX.
L.A. teachers are asking for more than just a well-deserved pay raise. They are also demanding smaller class sizes, less mandatory testing, increase in per-pupil funding, and more adults like nurses, librarians, social workers, and counselors...
The recent Los Angeles ballot measure to approve a city-owned bank, unfortunately, did not pass, but it did get 42 percent of the vote.
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