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Los Angeles Right to Housing Collective Fights for Tenant Rights (tags)
City Council made tenants wait over five hours before declining to vote on a moratorium against rent increases.When tenants voiced their anger, frustration and disappointment by chanting loudly in Council Chambers, Acting President Dennis Zine ordered Los Angeles Police Department to remove tenants from council. About 30 LAPD officers began roughly forcing tenants out of Council chambers.
Kevin Zeese: Attack on Iran May Lead to WWIII! (tags)
Takoma, Maryland’s City Hall was the scene for a lively discussion on Middle East issues, on Aug. 17, 2006. Kevin Zeese, the “Unity candidate” for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, and one of the panelists, said Israel’s attack on Lebanon was premeditated and that an attack on Iran might lead to WWIII. Noura Erakat said Lebanon had been devastated ‘on a humanitarian level” by Israel’s War Machine. She also denounced Israel as an “Apartheid state.”
4/28 Jim Gilchrist Experience Punk Rock Opera (tags)
4/28 Jim Gilchrist Experience Punk Rock Opera
Why the Farmers Must Win (tags)
In its Saturday editorial, the Los Angeles Times reduced virtually all the civic concerns of the historically neglected South Central to “niceties” and condemned a swath of the district to being a “concrete-and-asphalt” wasteland,“ "a seemingly endless sweep” of “industrial warehouses, packing plants, and junkyards.” It proclaimed that developer Ralph Horowitz must triumph, and the South Central Farm must be razed. The Times was wrong.
The Farmers Hold Their Ground (tags)
and tell the Mayor and City Council, "Thanks, but no thanks" to private buyers
The Farmers Hold Their Ground (tags)
and tell the Mayor and City Council, "Thanks, but no thanks" to private buyers
The Farmers Hold Their Ground (tags)
and tell the Mayor and City Council, "Thanks, but no thanks" to private buyers
Costa Mesa City Prosecutor: Mayor Allan Mansoor "under investigation" (tags)
Dan Peelman, an attorney with Jones and Mayer, a Fullerton-based law firm, and an "independent prosecutor" on contract with the City of Costa Mesa, opened up an investigation Friday into allegations contained within a "letter of complaint" that was filed against Mayor Allan Mansoor with Kimberly Hall Barlow, the City Attorney, on Tuesday, January 17th.
Oingo Boingo to Attend Raymond Theatre Hearing Monday! (tags)
Members of the band Oingo Boingo will be attending May 17 City Council hearing to show their support. A growing number of celebrities are lending their support to save the venerable rock venue from conversation to a condo, retail, office complex. David Lee Roth, Slash (ex- Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver), Jackson Browne, Billy Idol, Carrie Hamilton, W.A.S.P. and many others have lent their help and support.
Civil Liberties Defense Coalition (CLDC) (tags)
EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT For the Los Angeles, CA - City Council Resolution against the USA PATRIOT Act, and related Executive Orders File No. 03-0002-S162 Title USA PATRIOT ACT/REPEAL www.cldc-la.org
Long Beach All ages Venue under threat by LBPD (tags)
Long Beach Police AT IT AGAIN!!! (tags)
argh!
Civil Liberties Defense Coalition - NEEDS YOUR HELP! (tags)
WE NEED YOUR HELP! For the Los Angeles City Council Resolution against the USA PATRIOT Act, and other related measures.
Speak Out Against Santa Ana PD (tags)
Speak out against police repression in Santa Ana.
ACTIVISTS CLAIM SANTA ANA POLICE CRACKING DOWN ON DISSENT (tags)
Massive police presence at last Santa Ana City Council meeting leads to arrest, harassment, and illegal detentions
Los Angeles Anti-War Resolution - 2nd vote at 10:00 am (tags)
Friday at 10:00 am the Los Angeles City Council will be voting for the second itme on the anit-war resolution. Call your council members!
Local Activist Arrested by Santa Ana PD (tags)
"To protect and serve?"
Speak Out Against the War Mexican Youth in Santa Ana (tags)
see below
Speak Against Police Brutality in Santa Ana (tags)
see below, please