Posts Tagged: los angeles
LA tenants fight back with massive rent strike
Jul 26, 2018
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Three adjacent apartments owned by one company on Burlington Avenue in Westlake, Los Angeles, faced with the potential eviction of nearly a hundred fa...
Thousands join LA’s third Families Belong Together action
Jul 26, 2018
On July 21, members of the Los Angeles community gathered in MacArthur Park for the third Families Belong Together March in protest of the inhumane fa...
How LA’s “emergency” homelessness measures fail
Jul 15, 2018
A regressive sales tax funds only "temporary" housing for the homeless.
70,000 turn out for massive anti-family separation demonstrations in LA
Jul 08, 2018
Marching from Los Angeles City Hall to the Metropolitan Detention Center, protestors chanted in unity, “From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have...
‘ICE Out of L.A.!’ Inspired by Portland, community takes action
Jun 25, 2018
The organizers have pledged not to dismantle their encampment until ICE, the present-day American gestapo, is driven from Los Angeles.
Los Angeles tenants launch direct action against landlord abuses
Jun 25, 2018
By publicly showing unity and strength in the face of slumlords who profit off of the poverty of the majority, the protest showed how power lies in ...
Community protests environmental racism and extractivism in South Central Los Angeles
Jun 25, 2018
Currently over a quarter million people - mostly poor, people of color - live within half a mile of L.A.'s 5000 plus oil wells.
Thousands march in LA against separation of immigrant families
Jun 18, 2018
The Families Belong Together March brought together dozens of organizations and thousands of protesters.
Los Angeles community vigil for Roxsana Hernández and LGBTQ immigrants in ICE detention
Jun 10, 2018
On May 9, when Hernández arrived in the U.S. and asked for asylum, CBP detained her in inhumane conditions.
USC custodians rally for economic dignity
Apr 25, 2018
Custodians and supporters rally as contract vote approaches. Liberation News was there.
New Book
Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation
(Liberation Media, 2017)
Tracing the historical evolution of a movement that has thoroughly transformed society, and is in need of militant revival today.