“The safety conditions in the Dirty Dozen show we need more enforcement of our safety laws, not less,” says former OSHA official Jordan Barab. He describes proposed federal OSHA budget cuts under the Trump administration as “penny-wise and pound-foolish” for workers and taxpayers.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, in which President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the forced removal of anyone who posed a “threat” to designated military zones during World War II.
From Remembrance to Resistance: The 48th Manzanar Pilgrimage.
A photo essay by Joanne Kim.
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For many of us the passage of 25 years hasn’t produced clarity about why and how Los Angeles’ 1992 unrest occurred, and whether the city that we inherited from that awful moment in our history is now a better or worse place in which to live.
Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a social earthquake in which dozens of people were killed and over a thousand buildings burned. Even before it erupted, the combustible material was obvious to many living and working in South Los Angeles.
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“The problem is many victims don’t report. And sometimes when they do, the crimes are not adequately analyzed to be properly recorded by law enforcement,” Levin said. “A lot of police aren’t as well-trained as we would like.”
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A northern California man was arrested Friday after authorities say he launched firebomb attacks on police and two black neighbors
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Robert McDougal, 21, was arrested in March after carving a swastika onto the hood of a campus safety vehicle, said Doug Bennett, OCC’s executive director of college advancement.
Many California officials have fought hard to oppose the new anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric. That power is limited, however, presenting a painful challenge to immigrants caught in the cross-hairs, and to those trying to defend them.