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
Our struggle was always for the poorest of the poor: Housing rights militants at The People’s Summit
As US President Joe Biden’s Summit of the Americas is underway in Los Angeles, a city with 66,400 homeless people, housing takes a front seat in discussions at the People’s Summit that is concurrently taking place
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
- Google employees lead sit-ins protesting company’s complicity in genocide
- Israeli tourists attack vigil in Cusco in support of Palestine
- During Red April, Brazil’s MST restates the importance of agrarian reform
- German authorities’ crackdown on Palestine Conference sparks widespread outrage
- As elections approach, India’s farmers count government’s broken promises
