Los Angeles

L.A.’s Slow-Moving Oil And Gas Disaster

February 13, 2016 Laura Bliss, www.citylab.com Educate! California, Climage Change, Los Angeles, Methane, Oil and Gas

By Laura Bliss for City Lab - Prior to October 2015, many homeowners in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles were unaware that they lived next door to one of the largest natural gas storage facilities in the nation. Against the copper hills of the northern San Fernando Valley, their gated clusters of multi-story villas, arranged on neat curves and cul-de-sacs, probably felt worlds away from toxins and industry. Then came the largest methane gas leak in U.S. history.

#BLM Activists In LA Were Shackled In Jail Over Christmas

February 1, 2016 Hillel Aron, www.laweekly.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Los Angeles, Protesters Arrested

By Hillel Aron for LA Weekly - In the two days before Christmas, Black Lives Matter activists staged protests nationwide. Hundreds swarmed the Mall of America in Minneapolis. Protestors in Chicago hit the area's so-called "Magnificent Mile" shopping district. And in Los Angeles, a dozen or so activists shut down our most sacred of cows: the 405 freeway. Activists were arrested in Chicago, Minneapolis and elsewhere, but according to Melina Abdullah, L.A.'s protestors were dealt with particularly harshly.

Suit Accuses City & LAPD Of Violating Protesters’ Rights

January 18, 2016 Richard Winton, www.latimes.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Lawsuit, Los Angeles, Protestors Arrested

By Richard Winton for Los angeles Time - Individuals arrested in Los Angeles while protesting the killing of a black man in Ferguson, Mo., have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing the city and police of violating their constitutional rights. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges that in November 2014, the Los Angeles Police Department surrounded several hundred protesters as they marched downtown and in the Westlake district. Police then arrested or detained and questioned dozens of individuals without lawful dispersal orders, the suit says.

Police Chief Wants Officer Charged For Killing Unarmed Man

January 12, 2016 Carimah Townes, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), killed by police, Los Angeles, Police violence

By Carimah Townes for Think Progress - Between 2000 and 2014, the LAPD shot an average of one person every week. Yet no officer has been charged for a fatal shooting in the last 15 years. If Police Chief Charlie Beck gets his way, that could change soon. Despite push-back from his colleagues, Beck has recommended that Officer Clifford Proctor be charged for shooting and killing an unarmed homeless man in Venice last year. Proctor and his partner said Brendon Glenn was harassing customers and confronted a bouncer. The officers claimed Proctor shot Glenn while he was reaching for one of their weapons. But sources who saw video surveillance of the shooting told the Los Angeles Times that the police officers had successfully brought Glenn down to the ground when Proctor walked away and fired the gun. According to the anonymous sources, Glenn tried to stand up and was struggling before he was killed, but did not act in a way that explained the shooting.

Striking Port Truck Drivers Dig In Against Wage Theft

November 17, 2015 Dan Braun, www.capitalandmain.com Resist! Los Angeles, Strikes

By Dan Braun for Capital and Main - As Capital & Main reported yesterday, drivers with one of the larger trucking companies serving the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach went on strike just before dawn Monday. They struck XPO Logistics, a major international freight transportation company, while at the same time other drivers picketed Pacific 9 Transportation as they entered the 15th week of a strike against that company. These drivers are on the front lines of a critical fight impacting the future of work in the United States. “Misclassification,” a condition in which companies wrongly treat their workers as “independent contractors” rather than as employees, is a growing problem that is receiving increasing attention.

Labor Unrest Continues At West Coast Ports

September 29, 2015 David Moberg, www.inthesetimes.com.com Resist! Labor, Los Angeles, Worker Rights and Jobs

By David Moberg for In These Times - The nation’s largest port—spread across parts of both Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA—is a strangely varied workplace. And after years of tenacious effort, workers throughout the port may soon share one important tool their predecessors once had: a union and, therefore, a better job. At one extreme of the state's ports, there are longshore workers who belong to one of the most progressive unions in the U.S., the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. It has brought annual incomes of over $100,000 and higher skilled work to many of its members, once regarded as low-skilled. Once these jobs were unionized and paid reasonably decent “middle-class wages,” but the unions—mainly Teamsters—lost their contracts and members.

Amazon Workers Strike For Better Pay & Working Conditions

September 28, 2015 Cora Lewis, www.buzzfeed.com Resist! Amazon, Los Angeles, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Cora Lewis in Buzz Feed - Staff at a major Los Angeles warehouse serving Amazon and other big retailers went on strike Tuesday, protesting unpaid wages and overtime, dangerous conditions, a lack of breaks and water during hot summer months, and retaliation by management against their organizing efforts. The strike continued on Wednesday. The stoppage is the latest tactic in a campaign to improve conditions at the distribution center at the Port of Los Angeles, according to Sheheryar Kaoosji, director of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center. Workers and advocates have previously filed an Unfair Labor Practice complaint, a class-action lawsuit, and an Occupational Safety and Health complaint, the last of which triggered an ongoing investigation.

Here’s How We Free U.S. Cities From Wall Street Control

September 24, 2015 Saqib Bhatti, www.occupy.com Resist! Austerity, Finance and the Economy, Los Angeles

By Saqib Bhatti in Occupy - To try to balance its budget, Los Angeles had enacted hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts over the previous five years. City jobs had been slashed by 10 percent, flood control procedures had been cut back, crumbling sidewalks were not repaired and alleys were rarely cleared of debris. Sewer inspections ceased entirely; the number of sewer overflows doubled from 2008 to 2013. The campaign slogan wrote itself: “Invest in our streets, not Wall Street!” At the city council debate, Timothy Butcher, a worker with the Bureau of Street Services, got up and said, “I don’t know a whole lot about high finance. I’m just a truck driver. But I do know, if I go to a bank and they give me a bad deal, I don’t deal with that bank any more. And I don’t understand why the city can’t use the same kind of concept on some of these big banks, saying, ‘Hey, help us out or, you know, we’re not going to deal with you any more.’ ” The City Council approved the resolution unanimously.

L.A. To Declare ‘State Of Emergency’ On Homelessness

September 24, 2015 Peter Jamison, David Zahniser and Matt Hamilton, www.latimes.com Create! Homelessness, Los Angeles

By Peter Jamison, David Zahniser and Matt Hamilton in LA Times - Acknowledging their failure to stem a surge in homelessness, Los Angeles’ elected leaders on Tuesday said they would declare a “state of emergency” and devote up to $100 million to the problem. But they offered few details about where the money would come from or how it would be spent, leaving some to question the effort’s chances of success. The announcement by seven City Council members and Mayor Eric Garcetti was a powerful signal of growing alarm at City Hall over L.A.’s homeless population, which has risen 12% since 2013, the year Garcetti took office. It coincided with a directive from the mayor Monday evening that the city free up an additional $13 million in the coming months to help house people living on the streets.

Teachers’ Union Protests Eli Broad’s Support Of Charter Schools

September 22, 2015 Adrienne Bankert, www.abc7.com Resist! Charter Schools, Education, Los Angeles, Privatization, Teacher's Union

By Adrienne Bankert in ABC7 - A crowd of protesters with United Teachers Los Angeles held a rally outside The Broad on the museum's opening day Sunday. Hundreds of parents, teachers and students clad in red T-shirts held up signs and chanted outside the new contemporary art museum, which opened its doors to the public Sunday morning. The protesters said they are not against the museum but are against Eli Broad's reported plan to try to expand charter schools throughout the city of Los Angeles. Broad reportedly plans to put between half a billion and a billion dollars into unregulated, non-union charter schools, that could draw half of the district's students. The teachers' union fears these schools would not be accountable to the public, would cherry-pick their students, and keep parents from being able to interact with teachers.

Occupy LA Attorneys Get $668,000 In Fees

September 19, 2015 Elizabeth Warmerdam, www.courthousenews.com Educate! Criminal Justice, Law, Los Angeles, Occupy

By Elizabeth Warmerdam in Courthouse News - Attorneys who secured Occupy L.A. protesters a $2.6 million settlement for mass detentions and "militaristic" police tactics were awarded $668,000 in fees by a federal judge. Cheryl Aichele and five other Occupy Los Angeles demonstrators filed a class action in 2012, claiming police used a "shock and awe" campaign to oust hundreds of protesters from the City Hall lawn on Nov. 30, 2011. Officers tightly handcuffed protesters and kept them on buses for 7 hours with no restrooms or water, the protesters said. "In response to requests to use bathroom facilities, they were told to urinate and defecate on themselves, which some were forced to do," according to the protesters, who had camped out around the clock for eight days to protest economic inequality and bank bailouts. Most of the nearly 300 arrested were kept in custody for more than 60 hours. Others had to post the maximum cash bail for a misdemeanor offense.

Study: 13,000 Become Homeless Every Month In Los Angeles County

August 31, 2015 Haya El Nasser, www.america.aljazeera.com Educate! Homelessness, Los Angeles

By Haya El Nasser in Al Jazeera - Chronic homelessness is such a daunting problem in Los Angeles County that even after 10,000 people were moved into housing in the last three years, about 13,000 people on public assistance slip into homelessness every month, a new study has revealed. The number of people who become chronically homeless overwhelms the dwindling supply of affordable housing, according to a report released today by the Economic Roundtable, a research organization based in Los Angeles. “Ending chronic homelessness will be feasible if fewer people become homeless,” said Daniel Flaming, author of the report. “This requires the combined resources of health, mental health, social service, education, justice system and housing agencies to restore a place in the community for homeless individuals.”

Don’t Trust The Media On Corporate Education Reform

August 25, 2015 Molly Knefel, www.fair.org Educate! Charter Schools, Education, Los Angeles, Media, Privatization

By Molly Knefel in FAIR - Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Times (8/18/15) announced an initiative called Education Matters, “an ongoing, wide-ranging report card on K-12 education in Los Angeles, California and the nation.” The project will cover educational issues, including “the latest debate on curriculum or testing” and “how charter schools are changing public education.” The Times, owned by Tribune Publishing, will fund Education Matters with donations and grants from philanthropic organizations like the Baxter Family Foundation and the Broad Foundation. “These institutions, like the Times,” publisher and CEO Austin Beutner writes, “are dedicated to independent journalism that engages and informs its readers.”

Now Free & Legal To Plant Vegetable Garden In LA

August 19, 2015 Amanda Froelich, www.bullhorn.nationofchange.org Create! Food and Agriculture, Land, Law, Los Angeles

By Amanda Froelich in Nation of Change - As ridiculous as it sounds, growing food on government land is an illegal practice in many cities and towns across the U.S. But not everyone desires – or has the means – to pay an extraordinary amount on fruits and vegetables just to maintain their health. For this reason, a growing percentage of the populace has begun planting foods near their home and on lesser-visited plots of land in the city. Known as Guerrilla gardening, this practice has been deemed illegal, as the food foragers do not have a permit to grow a garden – even if they are only trying to use the Earth to its fullest capacity. Such was the case for Ron Finley, who, four years ago, was given an arrest warrant for planting carrots outside of his home on a small strip of city-owned land.

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