Breaking May Day News - 11:40 am - Student Walkouts Have Started (tags)
Student walk outs at various high schools in the Los Angeles area have begun. There are reports of walkouts at Roosevelt High, Jefferson High and Lincoln High.
Images from Today's Boyle Hts. Protest (tags)
BOYLE HEIGHTS, March 20, 2008 - About 35 students from Roosevelt High marched to a military recruitment center today and staged picket to protest the war in Iraq and the presence of military recruiters on their campus.
Roosevelt High Students Picket Recruitment Center In Boyle Hts. (tags)
BOYLE HIEGHTS, EAST LA, March 20, 2008 – Students from Roosevelt High marched from their school to a nearby military recruitment center today to demonstrate against the continuing war in Iraq and the predatory practices of military recruiters on their campus. The students staged a picket in front of the recruitment center. The protest was peaceful and there were no arrests.
Protest Military Recruiting in East L.A. (tags)
A vigil and nonviolent civil disobedience are planned for Monday, March 19 to protest the targeting of Latino students in East Los Angeles for military recruiting.
STUDENTS UP THE ANTE: Amnesty's the new agenda (tags)
Student protestors march on City Hall. "Compromise" is off the table--the word today was "Amnesty."
Inglewood: Huge March Backs Grocery Strikers (tags)
Inglewood, CA - Twenty thousand people demonstrated here, Jan. 31 in a powerful display of solidarity with the striking, locked-out United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) grocery workers. Trade unionists - including strikers and their families, longshoremen, public workers and Teamsters - along with community supporters marched on Safeway-owned Vons market.
EAST L.A. MARCH & RALLY AGAINST THE WAR IN IRAQ (tags)
!No al racismo / No to racist war! !No a la guerra por petróleo / No blood for oil! !Queremos Justicia / We want Justice! !No queremos guerra / Health Care Not Warfare!