Community Walk in Historic Filipinotown, Sept.26 (tags)
On Saturday, September 26, Council President Eric Garcetti and team conducted a neighborhood walk just south of Historic Filipinotown in central Los Angeles. Teams from different community organizations like LA Conservation Corp.,People’s CORE, GEPNC and from personnel from the Council member offices knocked on door to door, asking the neighbors what their local government can do for them.
Labor and civil rights groups: We demand jobs, justice in Gulf (tags)
Oct. 29 rally in Baton Rouge to demand a ‘new direction’ for U.S. Gulf Coast union leaders hailed an action campaign launched by the AFL-CIO Sept. 30 to defend workers’ wages and rebuild their hurricane-torn states while turning the nation in a new direction that puts “people before profits.”