United Families For Justice Carry 617 Coffins to Downtown L.A. #DeathByCop Rally (tags)
The 617 coffins memorialize Los Angeles victims of police murder since the year 2000. #RememberMe #DeathByCop #BlackLivesMatter #BrownLivesMatter
Columbus Day Protest, Downtown L.A. (tags)
Columbus Day has been suffering setbacks of late. Minneapolis; Berkeley, California; and most recently Seattle now observe Indigenous People's Day instead. San Francisco has Italian Heritage Day; Hawaii, Discoverers Day (i.e., the discovery of the islands by Polynesians); and South Dakota, Native American Day. Venezuela dropped Columbus Day in 2002 in favor of Day of Indigenous Resistance. Mexico, El Salvador, Argentina, and other countries celebrate Dia de la Raza*. While Columbus Day's still recognized here in Southern California, a new annual protest occurs in downtown L.A.
L.A. PORT POLICE & L.A. COUNTY SHERIFF CONSPIRE IN KIDNAPPING OF CARPENTER (tags)
L.A. Port Police & L.A. County Sheriff conspire with kidnappers to allow kidnapping of local carpenter. The kidnapper's unregistered firearm was confiscated by Port Police who returned it to them with the victim in their car.
March on May 1 for Immigration Reform! (tags)
March with L.A. Labor for Immigration Reform on May 1! May Day Thousands of LA workers will march side-by-side with immigrant workers this Sunday in downtown Los Angeles to demand national immigration reform, to stop deportations and separations of families, and to support all workers’ rights.
4th Week Of Clinic Defense Continues Against 40 Days Group (tags)
The Vigil Continues at Downtown L.A. Adjacent Family Planning Clinic
Photo Set 2 - TERMINATORS ILLEGAL VETOS spark HIV Protest and Vigil in Downtown L.A. (tags)
Photo set 2 Original article and Photo-set at http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/08/229582.php
TERMINATOR'S ILLEGAL VETOS spark HIV Protest and Vigil in Downtown L.A. (tags)
Governor Schwarzenegger's Blue Pencil Pulls The Trigger on California's Aids Patients. Photoset of the Los Angeles HIV Vigil of August 11th. Set one of two
ALEX SÁNCHEZ DENIED BAIL! (tags)
After many hours of waiting in the hot sun in front of the Federal Court House in Downtown L.A., members of the community were dismayed to receive the news that the judge had denied bail to Alex Sanchez; this although more than a million dollars had been gathered along with hundreds of letters of support from around the world.
Unions and Patients Demonstrate to Denounce Schwarzenegger Cut Proposals (tags)
Caregivers and the Cared For Gather to Protest in Downtown L.A.
Amnesty International Holds Vigil for Troy Davis in Downtown L.A.. (tags)
Global Day Of Action For Georgia Death Row Inmate
Guilty of Being Homeless in America!?
Video: Anti/Pro Immigration Protest In Downtown Los Angeles (tags)
2 Immigration Rallies in Downtown L.A. marking the anniversary of the 500,000+ person pro-immigrant demonstration in Los Angeles a year ago. Duration 1min. :51 sec
ANTI-WAR VIGIL THIS THURSDAY - Downtown (tags)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 - 4:00-6:00 pm Downtown L.A. Vigil & Banner Display
World Can't Wait -- National Organizing Meetings (tags)
Los Angeles joins cities across the US in making plans for October 5.
Urgent Action Alert! Actions Against Minutemen/Ted Hayes in Downtown L.A. Sun 5/21! (tags)
Call to Action! - 1) Call City Council/LA Police Commission why they approved the Minutemen's March Permit? 2) Mobilize Activist/Community to Turn the Back on Racist Minutemen on 5/21!
SOS/Nazis will be in Downtown L.A. Sun 5/21 at 11 am (tags)
Oppose the Nazis and Unlce Ted
High Quality Photos from the May 1st Immigration March in Downtown L.A. (tags)
Several photos taken from the May 1st Downtown L.A. pro immigration march
L.A. Riders Represent at the Downtown Peace March and Rally (tags)
Los Angeles area cyclists took took to the streets of Downtown L.A. by bike to to rally against the War in Iraq, and the state of the Union at yesterday's A.N.S.W.E.R. sponsored march and protest. Full article with photos.
Local Artists Invited to Display Work in Downtown (tags)
Downtown LA is brimming with artistic talent- to help show it off, the Downtown Center Business Improvement District along with the Central City Association is inviting local artists to have their artwork displayed in their office right in the heart of Downtown LA.
Hunters and the Hunted on the Arizona Border (tags)
Minutemen Vigilantes Target Immigrants
Alternative Carols for the Holiday Season (tags)
Alternative lyrics to your holiday favorites. Get out there and go caroling for economic justice!
Get out your ass for Critical Mass
Critical Mass Ride Tonight! (tags)
Exxon Mobile Kiss our A-s... Critical Mass needs no gas! Let Critical Mass take you for a ride through the streets of Los Angeles. Several locations to choose from...
Critical Mass Rides Tonight! (tags)
In the city of Los Angeles hundreds of bicyclists prepare to take to the streets tonight.
DO IT ON A BIKE!
M30 Mass March and Rally (tags)
A report from todays powerful march and rally.
Big Critical Mass Ride Tonight! (tags)
Announcement: Join Critical Mass for a celebration/demonstration of the world's most effecient and gas-free form of transportation, the bicycle.
Critical Mass - This Friday (tags)
The last Friday of every month in over 100 cities around the world, cyclists, roller bladers, boarders, etc...come together for a festive rolling celebration. It's an organized coincidence with no leaders and no set agenda. People come together for many reasons, to assert their right to cleaner air, less congestion, safer roads, no blood for oil, and to celebrate and ride in solidarity with other cyclists and like minded individuals. Celebrate this month with Critical Mass in Los Angeles!
Critical Mass LA - This Friday (tags)
The last Friday of every month in over 100 cities around the world, cyclists, roller bladers, boarders, etc...come together for a festive rolling celebration. It's an organized coincidence with no leaders and no set agenda. People come together for many reasons, to assert their right to cleaner air, less congestion, safer roads, no blood for oil, and to celebrate and ride in solidarity with other cyclists and like minded individuals. Celebrate this month with Critical Mass in Los Angeles!
Mass Transition: The Gold Line's Challenge to N.E. Los Angeles (tags)
The new Gold Line light-rail project and gentrification in Northeast Los Angeles From the Arroyo Arts Collective Newsletter vol14, no2 March/April 2003
Thousands Rally Against War in Iraq, Push Peace (LAT) (tags)
Protest in Downtown L.A. (BRIAN WALSKI / LAT)
CNN & LAPD grossly underestimate crowd size (tags)
Funny, CNN quotes the wrong LAPD estimates. LAPD reports 3000. See the LA Times story below with differing estimates
Next INS deadline Jan 10, 2003--- (tags)
January 10, 2003 is the next deadline imposed by the INS for registration, fingerprinting and interviews for so-called "visitors" from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, or Yemen.
ANTI-INTERNMENT EVENT IN LITTLE TOKYO (tags)
To commemorate the 1942 Internment of the entire Japanese American Community... and to Protest the current Detention of Arab American & American Muslims, a DAY OF REMEMBRANCE will be held February 16 on the very spot in L.A.'s Little Tokyo where Japanese Americans were rounded up and shipped off to Concentration Camps.
Los Angeles Anarchist Collective (NEW) (tags)
Our goal is to create a society in which individuals within our communities can freely co-operate together as equals, without a form of government. We oppose all forms of economic, political and social hierarchy.
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.”
13 minutes on the state of our struggle for Peace. This one is very roughly edited in hopes of getting it posted as quickly as possible. However equipment problems and live got in my way. Sorry it's not more timely.
Meeting on L.A. Gentrification (tags)
There will be a meeting this Monday at 7pm about the "revitalization" plans for downtown LA.
Rob Morse: "A walk on the wild side" (tags)
Amazingly good column in a mainstream paper.
Human Needs not Corporate Greeds March 4 (tags)
An L.A.P.D. officer stands by as demonstations move by Monday in Downtown L.A.
Subway Turned Back in Downtown L.A. (tags)
The LAPD turn back a subway car headed into downtown L.A.