Article: In Los Angeles today, the Labor/Community Strategy Center is carrying out a difficult Left experiment in the age of the omnipresent Right.

California State Senator Mark Leno, is the Author of CA SB 1317, a bill that
will impose unnecessary and severely punitive consequences for families in the
public school system by allowing the schools to fine and/or jail
parents/guardians of students that are “chronically truant” with a newly created
misdemeanor charge. To continue reading our letter of opposition addressed to the California Assembly Committee on Education please click below.

The long-sought project to add a bus lane to 9.5 miles of Wilshire Boulevard for peak hour commutes will take a step forward next week when a draft environmental impact report is released jointly by Metro, along with the city and county of Los Angeles.

The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to
Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate
Change Conference, where he is eager to work with the international
community to drive progress toward a comprehensive and operational
Copenhagen accord.

President Obama's focus on "shovel ready" capital projects that advance the highway lobby compromises his mission of social justice and reversing global warming.

Article: Elections are dominated by a chauvinist, punitive, and aggressively racist white majority.

Article: Our fight over the future of L.A.'s buses has important implications for the future of the environmental movement.

Article: The electoral victory of George Bush is an unmitigated disaster for people of color in the United States. Our response: Help build the Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperialist United Front...

Article: 1,500 angry bus riders taking time off work to come demand that fares not be increased, but the MTA does it anyway!