Los Angeles
LA workers vote to protect them from layoffs, furloughs
July 20, 2009Some 22,000 city workers are voting on a labor deal that would protect them from layoffs and furloughs but keep them from receiving pay raises until 2011, to help the city reduce its $530 million budget...
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Man shot dead by LA police with Taser gun
February 16, 2009February 16 (Xinhua) A man died on Saturday after being shot by police with a Taser gun, becoming the latest victim of Taser guns, authorities said on Sunday.
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CAFTA = pollution, hunger, job loss
July 22, 2005With a vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement expected in the House of Representative before the end of July, 10 activists in the Los Angeles Coalition Against CAFTA held a four-day hunger strike July...
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Demanding justice for Deandre Brunston
July 15, 2005COMPTON, Calif. — It was a bittersweet Sunday afternoon in Compton, a small city on the south side of Los Angeles. Keishia Brunston, a young African American woman, called together friends and neighbors for a backyard...
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