Fifty years from now, when people want to know what relationships between women and men were like in 2013, they’d be well advised to watch the...
Vivian Rothstein was one of four recipients of a “Giant of Justice” award from Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice Los Angeles (CLUE-LA) last...
Pastor Nestor Gerente welcomed the overflow audience of nearly 350 Long Beach activists at last week’s People’s State of the City gathering and said, “This is...
It’s hard to present the history of a social movement without giving the impression that all the exciting fights have already been won and that taking...
Sometimes you have to just love the California state constitution. It may right now be the one thing protecting us from the chaos inflicted on Chicago,...
Searching for Sugar Man, the Oscar-winning documentary film by Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul, hits you in the heart. You walk out of the theater feeling the...
Civil rights leader Reverend James Lawson announced last Saturday that he’s planning to give himself to a new nonviolent direct action campaign with the Children’s Defense...
Maybe it’s time for the millions of American victims of gun violence to come out of the shadows and make real what guns are doing to...
It’s hard to define good leadership, but we all know it when we see it in action. Leaders we truly respect inspire us with their vision...
As the 2012 elections approached I started to feel very guilty about the state of the country that my generation, which was born shortly after World...
I’m not much of a fashionista. But I do pay attention to which recycled grocery bags I carry. And the one recently passed out to the...
Seven million dollars may not sound like a lot to some large corporations, but that amount of money brought into the Long Beach economy each year...
The opponents of the proposed Long Beach Living Wage are just getting organized. They’ve run an ad on Craigslist offering “a very competitive hourly wage” of...
“Hi. I’m a volunteer with the We Buy Local campaign here in Long Beach.” So begins the conversation with undecided voters about the Long Beach living...
I got my start in politics helping poor Mississippi sharecroppers register to vote. In those days even walking up the steps of the nearest town hall...
After growing up in L.A., I got used to hearing my hometown disparaged as superficial, anti-intellectual, not a “real” city, celebrity obsessed, etc. etc. It was...
(Update, June 17: A United Teachers L.A. bulletin has announced the 58-42 percent membership approval of the agreement discussed below.) My neighbor Rena found her life’s work at the...
If you’re a woman, an artist, a cancer survivor or patient; someone with a connection to the Holocaust or the 1960s women’s movement — in fact,...
It wasn’t exactly Tahrir Square, but one recent Saturday afternoon, through modern technology, I joined an estimated two million people throughout Latin America, the U.S. and...