May 10 2012
Amelia Earhart Continuation School Faces Closure – Parents, Teachers, and Students Protest
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Starting this fall incoming LAUSD High School Students will need to pass more college-prep classes with higher grades to earn a diploma in four years. On Tuesday the LAUSD board voted to raise the standards to graduate high school, while also lowering the total number of credits required. Among other changes, students will be required to take …
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Starting this fall incoming LAUSD High School Students will need to pass more college-prep classes with higher grades to earn a diploma in four years. On Tuesday the LAUSD board voted to raise the standards to graduate high school, while also lowering the total number of credits required. Among other changes, students will be required to take …
Emmy-award winning Chicano rock legends David Hidalgo and Louie Perez, better known as founders of the world-renowned East L.A.-born band Los Lobos, have coalesced their creative talents once again in the form of a new multimedia play: “Evangeline: the Queen of Make Believe.” 
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of 
Voters in Wisconsin yesterday chose Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett to run against incumbent Governor Scott Walker in the June 5th gubernatorial recall election. Barrett easily beat his opponents, winning 56 out of 72 Wisconsin counties. The embattled Governor Walker, who in facing a recall, has to fight to keep his job, easily beat his GOP opponent in …
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside of the Bank of America shareholders meeting today in Charlotte, North Carolina to protest the financial institution that is central to the housing and foreclosure crisis. BofA shareholders are reportedly going to introduce a resolution to end political spending by the bank, following a similar action by shareholders of US manufacturer …
Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this week requested the City Council vote on an ordinance banning tents from all public parks. The ordinance is based on an existing law that disallows camping in parks but is widely seen as an attempt to prevent a new Occupy LA encampment on the City Hall lawn. Groups advocating for the …
The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents. 
Elections in a number of Europeans nations over the weekend were widely seen as popular referenda against harsh austerity measures adopted by governments in response to the fiscal crisis. In France Francois Hollande beat incumbent Nicholas Sarkozy, making him the first Socialist Party leader to be President in 17 years. On the same day, in Greece, elections …
Palestinian prisoners began their fourth week of hunger strikes today protesting abusive and sub-standard conditions in Israeli jails in what has been dubbed by supporters as the War of the Empty Stomachs. The 1,500 inmates are demanding the Israeli government restore visitation rights to family members and end the use of Administrative Detentions, which allows for …
In advance of an upcoming report, the Economic Policy Institute released its findings last week that CEO compensation increased over 725% between 1978 and 2011. Over the same period, the average worker’s compensation inched up by a relatively measly 5.6%. In their new book, Billionaires’ Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality, Linda …
