Los Angeles Indymedia : Activist News

GLENDALE, December 10, 2005--Seventy-five determined day laborers with 150 allies defended their brethren at the Glendale Temporary Skilled Worker Center this morning from a protest by Save Our State, a San Bernardino-based anti-migrant group. SOS had called the demonstration to turn public sympathy against the workers, but only managed to bring out about twenty supporters. SOS was overwhelmed in the sea of counterprotestors, and passing motorists along the busy San Fernando Road throughway honked their support for the jornaleros throughout the morning.

The only violence of the day resulted in the arrest of Joseph Turner for misdemeanor assault after he forcefully pushed a protestor. He was led away by police at 8:20 a.m.

When Save Our State members began appearing at 8:00 a.m., they were met by day laborers and contractors, organized by Instituo de Educacion Popular Del Sur De California (IDEPSCA), already spread along the east side of San Fernando Road in front of Home Depot. Mexica Movement stood in formation on the west side in front of the Day Labor Center. Glendalian supporters of the migrant workers were joined by anti-racist groups from around Los Angeles County and as far away as San Diego, including Anti-Racist Action, Gente Unida, Radical Women, the Southern California Human Rights Network, the International Socialist Organization, and La Tierra es de Todos.

A dozen officers from the Glendale police department, which co-sponsor the day labor center, kept protestors on the sidewalk. Eight green-hatted Lawyers Guild legal observers kept watch, and a few reporters chiefly interviewed members of Save Our State. ...

by Leslie

Full report: Progress through Dialogue in Glendale? by Rockero420 / / Reports with photos: SOS in Glendale, Turner Arrested by Bystander / / Glendale: Jornaleros Victorous! by Leslie

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The nationwide counter-recruitment campaign is gaining momentum. The campaign is seen by many as a direct action against the Achilles Heel of the Bush regime’s ability to continue the war in Iraq and elsewhere. The logic of no soldiers: no war is taking hold and the defense department's own figures show that the counter-recruitment campaign is having an effect. There are a number of planned actions for the month of December here in Los Angeles. This Saturday’s upcoming demonstration at the Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion at 5051 Rodeo Road is expected to be one of the largest such actions to date.

From the Calendar: Protest at the Los Angeles Recruiting Battalion || REFLECTION. RESISTANCE. RESPONSE. CONCERT AGAINST MILITARISM IN OUR SCHOOLS

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December 6 will go down as a Day of Infamy in Venice. Today, like Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, a sneak attack was launched on tenants at Lincoln Place by corporate owner, AIMCO, in collusion with the L.A. Sheriffs Dept.

Sheriffs and Marshals knocked on 52 doors, beginning at 8am, and gave residents only two minutes to get out of their apartments. New locks were placed on doors and windows were screwed down. Some elderly tenants forgot their medications, including one who left her insulin shots behind.

AIMCO and the Sheriffs used the roof top parking lot of neighboring Staples as their command center. The Staples manager denied any knowledge of their presences until informed by a Beachhead reporter.

Tenants and supporters gathered at Elkgrove Avenue and Lake Street with picket signs. L.A. City Councilmember Bill Rosendahl visited the gathering, but was unable to do anything to reverse the evictions. Some vowed a 24-hour vigil until the evictions are lifted.

A tent city for those unable to find a place to stay has been set up at the Lincoln Place Tent City at Frederick and California Streets in Venice, adjoining Lincoln Place Apartments, 1/2 block east of Lincoln Blvd next to Ross Dress For Less. You can see it from Lincoln Blvd. MAP / / Support Lincoln Place evicted tenants - Friday night by Jim Smith

AUDIO: Interviews with Lincoln Place evicted tenants and their supporters. / / PHOTOS: Tent City, Lincoln Place / / Pot Luck for Evicted Tenants Tonight at 7:00 pm / / AUDIO 2: Interview with a Tenant Evicted from Lincoln Place AUDIO: Lincoln Place Evictions. An interview with tenant’s rights activist, Jim Smith / / FULL REPORT: Lincoln Place residents evicted with two-minutes warning by Jim Smith / / PHOTOS: Eviction / / LINKS: Lincoln Place / / Free Venice

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Hundreds of supporters of Stan Tookie Williams, a Nobel-nominated activist and author working to end gang violence and counsel troubled youth, rallied Saturday, December 3rd, 2005 in South Los Angeles' Leimert Park. Mr. Williams is a death row inmate at San Quentin who is scheduled to be executed on December 13th, just ten days from the date of the rally, unless Governor Schwarzenegger intervenes to commute his sentence to life without parole. ...

Full report with photos: Rally to Save Tookie Williams by Carl
From the Newswire: AUDIO: The Rev. James Lawson speaks at the save Tookie Rally Today || Rally: Stop the Execution of Tookie || Photos: RALLY FOR CLEMENCY FOR TOOKIE || VIDEO: Rally to Save Tookie Williams

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