{"id":29379,"date":"2012-05-02T10:19:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=29379"},"modified":"2012-05-02T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T17:19:39","slug":"la-activists-converge-on-downtown-la-workers-disrupt-lax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/05\/02\/la-activists-converge-on-downtown-la-workers-disrupt-lax\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Activists Converge on Downtown LA; Workers Disrupt LAX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-050212\/2012_05_02_mayday.MP3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-050212\/2012_05_02_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/mayday_la.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>May Day celebrations and actions across the country yesterday made headlines. Here in Southern California, thousands of activists converged onto Downtown LA from four points, North, South, East, and West while workers and their supporters at LA International Airport demonstrated and went on strike, disrupting operations. About 200 LAX workers under the union SEIU United Workers West and their supporters, rallied at the Bradley International Terminal at before marching down Century Blvd and halting incoming traffic at the intersection of Century and Avion. They were protesting health and safety abuses they say they suffer as employees of airport subcontractors. The employees are baggage handlers, cabin cleaners and others who do some of the most physically demanding and dangerous jobs at the airport. They say they have been forced to perform their duties at an ever increasing pace, while their health benefits are cut and their wages remain stagnant. The demonstration culminated in several union representatives, community leaders, and workers being arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n<p><em>KPFK reporters were all over the region, reporting the actions and today we bring you the voices of some of the people involved, beginning with a special report by Uprising\u2019s Martina Steiner from LAX, followed by a report from Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar covering the West Wind of the actions. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May Day celebrations and actions across the country yesterday made headlines. Here in Southern California, thousands of activists converged onto Downtown LA from four points, North, South, East, and West while workers and their supporters at LA International Airport demonstrated and went on strike, disrupting operations. About 200 LAX workers under the union SEIU United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}