Oct 03 2011
On Saturday over a thousand people gathered in Pershing Square, downtown Los Angeles and marched to City Hall in an action dubbed Occupy Los Angeles, in the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York. Like in New York, a group of activists, called a “General Assembly” has been formed to make decisions collectively. The demonstrations continued …
Oct 03 2011
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will be holding a hearing tomorrow on Landmark Village, part of a proposed 21,000 unit Newhall Ranch development along the Santa Clara River in Northern LA County. Developers have been attempting to clear environmental, legal, and financial hurdles for the last 10 years. The project would be one of the largest single residential …
Oct 03 2011
“Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …
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Oct 03 2011
Protesters fed up with Wall Street’s practices and influence woke up Monday to their third morning of camping outside Los Angeles City Hall.
Some of the approximately 100 activists planned to head across the street to join the throng outside the courthouse where Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, is on trial.
Members of Occupy Los Angeles, as their group is called, said they hoped to attract more media attention to their cause, which draws its …
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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