Activists push Palestine to the front line of the Oscars
A massive protest took to the streets outside of the Academy Award ceremony, while a filmmaker took the stage to denounce Israeli occupation
Los Angeles bosses feel the pressure with four unions on strike
Four simultaneous strikes strikes hit the city of Los Angeles yesterday when city workers walked off the job
Thousands of hotel workers strike in Los Angeles
This fourth of July weekend—a major time for the hospitality industry in the US—hotel workers have walked off the job in one of the nation’s most visited cities
The largest hotel workers’ strike in modern US history could be around the corner
Hotel workers make Los Angeles rich. But they can no longer afford to live in the city where they work
Education workers in Los Angeles just won a resounding victory
LAUSD workers secured increases on their poverty wages after a historic 65,000-strong strike last week
The poor are bearing the brunt of California’s storms
As the West Coast of the US faces torrential rains and harsh wind, California’s 172,000 homeless people face two storms: natural disaster and state indifference
“This racist council’s got to go!”: Crisis in Los Angeles City Council following leaked recording
“They have verbalized what they have been doing for the last five years,” said L.A. activist Kenia Alcocer after a leaked recording revealed City Council members making racist remarks
Storms at the Summit of the Americas
June 7 was a bad day for the secretary-general of the Organization of American States. During the Summit of the Americas, a young man declared to him what he is: an instigator of the coup in Bolivia.
Another world is possible, but we have to make it so: Building a People’s Summit
The People’s Summit for Democracy is far beyond an alternative to Biden’s Summit of the Americas. It is a call for something entirely new
“We want to be able to share a better world with Cuba”: Carolina Vega on creating revolutionary art
Peoples Dispatch spoke to Carolina Vega, a Cuban-American artist based in Los Angeles on her participation in the Vital Lines/Líneas Vitales exhibit
In historic vote, 60,000 Hollywood workers authorize first ever countrywide strike
Workers employed in major film and television production houses have complained of abysmal working conditions such as long hours, often exceeding 12 hours a day, low wages and low healthcare contributions from producers
How police preserve inequality in Los Angeles—and everywhere else
Instead of dismantling encampments where unhoused people have formed their own communities, we ought to dismantle the economic system that fosters homelessness and the state power that preserves inequality
