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The migrant workers at the forefront of Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts

Immigrant day laborers, organized with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, are on the front lines of the humanitarian efforts amid the devastating fires and are responding to anti-migrant rhetoric with “love”

Los Angeles fires ravage communities, expose systemic issues

From the exploitation of prison labor to the failures of insurance companies, the Los Angeles wildfires underscore the toll of capitalism on vulnerable communities

Los Angeles wildfires force evacuations of tens of thousands

Over 1,000 structures have been destroyed by the fire, including the Palisades Branch Library

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