Michelle Zacarias: In Southern California, Small Groups of Activists Quietly Undermine ICE Operations
Organizers confront ICE wherever they can be found, from the hotels where agents sleep to the streets they patrol.
George Yancy: Authoritarian Wave in US Shows Democracy’s Fragility, South African Scholar Says
Trump’s attacks are buttressed by his commitment to an authoritarian playbook that wallows in weaponizing differences against the backdrop of creating historical myths — in this case about the supremacy of whiteness.
Video: A City Fights Back | How LA Defends Itself From ICE
Under Donald Trump’s administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has stepped up arrests and detention of immigrants around the United States. This is how Unión del Barrio is fighting back in Los … Continue reading
Paul Rogat Loeb: Reclaiming the Flag for No Kings Day
On Flag Day, Saturday June 14, more than 1,800 local demonstrations will challenge U.S. President Donald Trump’s North Korean-style military parade for his birthday with our defense of democracy.
Abby Zimet: Shame Shame Shame | What American Justice Looks Like
The mindless rupturing of families and communities soars.
Jake Johnson: With Tanks Heading to DC, Call by ‘Dictator’ Trump to ‘Bring in the Troops’ Spurs Fear of Wider Repression
“This is not about protecting communities,” said one human rights campaigner, “this is about crushing dissent and instilling fear.”
Majid Naficy: Ah, Los Angeles
I am at peace with you.
Waiting without fear
I lean back against the bus post.
And I become lost
In the sounds of your midnight.
Joan E. Bauer: The Visionary, the Provocateur
Mike Davis grew up Catholic, bullied by rednecks
in Fontana, a place he later called, with affection,
that ‘junkyard of dreams.’
Dane Cervine: This Burning
I drove silently in the night
into the heaving hills of Los Angeles afire, so close now,
not knowing if there would be a way through
Joan E. Bauer: The Vernacular Landscape
I love how he values words & waits until they grow
hot in his imagination, then OOF FLASH SPAM
Joan E. Bauer: The Apple Pan on Pico
When you are seeking greatness, turn to the Apple Pan, a homey 1940s institution imitated everywhere from Duluth, Minn., to Bahrain. — Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles Times food critic, 2013 … Continue reading
Majid Naficy: Every Night in this City
Every night in this city
Thousands of people sleep on the street
Michelle Bitting: Now at Holiday Time I Think About the Moment I Heard You Passed On
a stone’s throw from lots
where talented Sharon Tate expired and Jim Morrison
fluttered psychedelic, fiery birds rising from the boulevard
of broken wings
Sonali Kolhatkar: Abolishing the Nation’s Largest Jail System
L.A. County activists are working to replace violent jails with mental health facilities, and to reallocate funding from incarceration toward social services.
