Worth remembering in this age of extreme police militarization that the concept of the SWAT team came straight out of the LAPD after Watts in the mind of a very nice man named Daryl Gates. In case you forgot the details of Gates' reign of...
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In Out of Sight, I discuss how consumers need to understand how their clothes are made and the tremendous costs of not knowing that information. Of course, much of this.
Sometimes I read about art projects dealing with socially conscious themes and think "wow, this shows a real lack of self-awareness." That's how I felt when reading about this: Nick.
On June 15, 1990, 400 striking janitors in Los Angeles who had organized with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and were trying to secure a contract with International Service Systems (ISS), who had the contract to clean many of the city's downtown office buildings,...
If you like cool visualizations of how sprawl in Los Angeles occurred by noting the age of every building in the city, then this is for you.
With leadership like this, it's hard to believe the American labor movement is in decline: Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide minimum wage increase approved.
Yesterday's bill in Los Angeles to ease in a $15 minimum wage is great. But it isn't enough to live on in Los Angeles because housing is so expensive. A $15 minimum wage really just needs to be a first step in the larger fight...
The Los Angeles City Council voting 14-1 to increase the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour is a very big deal. Doing this city by city or state by.
Elliot Gould's apartment from The Long Goodbye is available for rent. For $2800 a month you can live in one of the most awesome apartments ever used on the silver.
This is an excellent set of photographs documenting how atmospheric nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site lit up the night sky in Los Angeles: The light from the tests seems to light up the entire sky, a dull incandescence sharply outlining anything between it...
On October 1, 1910, International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers member James McNamara blew up the Los Angeles Times building because the paper's publisher, Harrison Gray Otis, was.
I think it's great that Los Angeles is creating a new wetland in south Los Angeles. Part of a 9 acre park, this 4.5 acre wetland will bring much needed.