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LA emergency storm response system doesn’t do enough to consider unhoused residents

Lisa Kwon by Lisa Kwon September 6th, 2023September 6th, 2023

Organizers say the current system for emergencies operates too slowly to support unhoused Angelenos

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Artists across the country grapple with an unforgiving housing market

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Posted inImmigration

Sacramento community groups scramble to assist migrants transported from Texas

by Natasha Ishak June 28th, 2023June 28th, 2023
digital collage with a yellow background. on the bottom left, three people holding "No Evictions" signs stand on the right side, a black-and-white cutout of a photograph of a Latinx man looks directly at the camera. diagonally down from the top left corner is a dotted black line with "renters' debt" curving along the loop
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Tenants unions harness collective action to fight rent debt

by Leonardo Vilchis-Zarate May 18th, 2023May 18th, 2023
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Compton’s only community garden fights to save its space

Lisa Kwon by Lisa Kwon May 16th, 2023May 16th, 2023
digital collage with a yellow background. on the bottom left, four incarcerated men in uniforms stand with their backs to the camera. on the right side, a black-and-white cutout of a photograph of a Latinx man looks directly at the camera. diagonally down from the top left corner is a dotted black line with "carceral debt" curving along the loop
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Incarceration is financial extraction

by Manuel Galindo May 11th, 2023May 18th, 2023
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LA school workers approve historic agreement

by Imani Stephens April 11th, 2023April 11th, 2023
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Hate crime data collection doesn’t prevent hate crimes

by Mai Tran March 21st, 2023April 19th, 2023
color photograph of a protest outside City Hall in LA, a white building with small rectangular windows and a middle section that rises above the sides. A person stands in the foreground with their back to the camera wearing a loose white t-shirt with a red bandana tied around their head. they hold up a brown cardboard sign with blue and red text facing the camera that reads: how many more lives will they take? stop killing us
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The rise of hate in Los Angeles: Annual county report shows a continued increase of anti-Black hate crimes

by Imani Stephens February 20th, 2023February 20th, 2023
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The movement for media reparations must include the entertainment industry

Tamar by Tamar Sarai February 17th, 2023February 16th, 2023

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