May 29, 2010, 9:55 pm - Dispatch From Phoenix, AZ - Immigrants Rights Demonstration (tags)
LA Indymedia reporters are in Phoenix today to cover the planned mass demonstrations against the recently passed Arizona anti-immigrant law, SB1070.
LA SOCIAL FORUM - REPORT BACK (tags)
Thanks to everyone who made the first LA Social Forum a success. We had over three hundred and fifty registrations the first two days and handed out 425 programs.
Grand Opening: School of the Americas Watch West (more pics) (tags)
Additional pictures of the vigil to close the School of the Americas.
Grand Opening: School of the Americas Watch West (part 1) (tags)
“Word began to spread as we researched the school and discovered what we had here was indeed a school of assassins, a school for dictators. These soldiers came here to learn counter insurgency. Who were the insurgency? They were the poor, the religious leaders, labor leaders, and many others. And then when the torture manuals were discovered in the curriculum, that got a lot of front-page coverage. Word began to spread, and our numbers in the movement grew.” -- Father Roy Bourgeois, founder, School of the Americas Watch
Exposing NCLR’s Corporate Ties. (tags)
National Council of La Raza: What's in a name?
Report Back From the 16th World Festival of Students in Venezuela (part 1) (tags)
"[The U.S. ruling elites] have a lot to lose because Venezuela is setting an example. If the people of Venezuela are able to struggle and alleviate so much poverty and illiteracy and lack of healthcare in their country, then why can't we do it here as well?" -- Muna Coobtee, delegate, World Festival of Students, 2005
Our name is CORPUS DELICTI - The Body as Murder Evidence (tags)
"The vision to gather as many people as possible in a collective and focused ritual/protest based on the dance-theater of Butoh." - CORPUS DELICTI
KPFK - Good Luck Steven Starr (tags)
Here are a few words from a member of the LAIMC collective for the new General Manager at KPFK.
10/27 at Pershing Square (tags)
“I’ve never seen anything like this in my life!” exclaims one African-American man. “Never?” I ask. “No!” he says, “What’s it about?” “It’s against the war.” “Oh,” he nods. “That’s good. The war is bad.”