Jul
25
2013
City activities like farmers markets and “art-walks” are a mainstay of most Southern California municipalities, encouraging the mental and physical health and well-being of its residents.
The Westmont neighborhood of South Los Angeles, will finally enjoy it’s first ever Annual Art Walk this Saturday.
Organized by Community Coalition, the Art Walk will feature artists and vendors, and an art competition on the topic of “citizenship.”
Community Coalition has also helped …
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Jul
25
2013
The natural space that Los Angeles voters twice passed bond measures to “permanently protect” has become the subject of an ugly battle in Whittier between oil developers, City Council members, government agencies and conservation groups.
Even though a judge recently affirmed the protective status of Whittier Hills by ordering Matrix Oil company’s equipment to be removed from the land, several interested parties are now entering into a legal settlement process …
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Jul
25
2013
Uprising’s Friday guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent journalist and regular contributor to AlterNet, Truthout and The Guardian, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and The Indypendent, analyzes today’s news headlines:
In one of the biggest cases of insider trading fraud in US history, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has brought criminal charges against the hedge fund …
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Jul
25
2013
When Republican House member Steve King of Iowa was asked recently about the DREAM act for young immigrants who were brought to the US as minors, he acknowledged that some of those young immigrants were certainly valedictorians.
But then he went on to say, “For every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that they weigh 130 pounds, …
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Jul
25
2013
The natural space that Los Angeles voters twice passed bond measures to “permanently protect” has become the subject of an ugly battle in Whittier between oil developers, City Council members, government agencies and conservation groups.
Even though a judge recently affirmed the protective status of Whittier Hills by ordering Matrix Oil company’s equipment to be removed from the land, several …
Read more
Jul
25
2013
City activities like farmers markets and “art-walks” are a mainstay of most Southern California municipalities, encouraging the mental and physical health and well-being of its residents.
The Westmont neighborhood of South Los Angeles, will finally enjoy it’s first ever Annual Art Walk this Saturday.
Organized by Community Coalition, the Art Walk will feature artists and vendors, and an art competition …
Read more
Jul
25
2013
“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” — James A. Baldwin …
Jul
24
2013
We’ll find out why three young immigrants recently deported themselves to Mexico and attempted to legally return to their home in the US. And, activists in Whittier are up in arms over proposed oil drilling in the Whittier Hills. Plus, South Los Angeles launches its first ever Annual Art Walk. …
Jul
24
2013
More than 70 Syrian rebels were killed in an around the Syrian capital of Damascus earlier this week in one of the worst setbacks to the opposition movement against President Bashar Al-Assad.
British PM David Cameron referred to the current situation as a “stalemate” even as the number of fatalities since the war began has now exceeded 93,000.
More than …
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