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
People’s Summit for Democracy in Los Angeles ends with a bold plan for the future
On the final day of the People’s Summit, organizers, volunteers, and attendees marched by the hundreds to the Summit of the Americas
The housing struggle is a national and international struggle: Kenia Alcocer
Kenia Alcocer talks about important struggles she took up as an activist, the formation of the Los Angeles Tenants Union and how the struggle for housing rights is related to other working class struggles.
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
Kenia Alcocer: “People are choosing between paying their rent or staying alive”
Kenia also talks about the resilience of migrant communities amid the pandemic despite being some of the most impacted.
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