CA Safe Schools Honors LA Unified & Local Heroes! (tags)
Honorees: Los Angeles Unified School District, Dr. Cathie-Ann Lippman, Maryhelen Torres, Luisa Leschin and Legendary Bob Baker.
LA Book Tour: DN!'s Juan Gonzalez and Joe Torres:News For All the People (tags)
Democracy Now! co-host and award-winning journalist Juan Gonzalez?s new book, News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, co-authored with Joseph Torres of the media reform group Free Press, is being launched with a national book tour, starting in NYC on Thursday, October 20th, with multiple stops in California, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and Washington, DC. "News For All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media" is a landmark narrative history of American media that puts race at the center of the story.
Political Prisoner Jalil Muntaqim Denied Parole (tags)
the face of political persecution in America
Eric McDavid Update and Court Report from 9/12 (tags)
Report of court proceedings from 9/12
Mexico becomes part of the Amerikan police state! (tags)
Mexico extradites a record 50 fugitives to the U.S. this year
Gitmo as "rewarding" environment? They've got to be kidding.
Drugs and death in Afghanistan: What happened to Spc. Juan Torres? (tags)
On July 12, 2004 — just weeks before he was due to come home to Houston after his yearlong duty in Afghanistan — Torres was found dead in a shower/latrine at Bagram Air Base.
Workers witness Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution (tags)
In late November, Chicagoans Beatrice Lumpkin and her husband Frank, a retired steelworker leader, traveled to Venezuela.
Ex-Officer Gets Fine, Probation in Shooting Spree (tags)
Courts: Defendant drove the car from which three colleagues fired weapons in an off-duty drunken escapade. Prosecutor calls the sentence too lenient.