Los Angeles
L.A. port truckers rack up two wins, but also forced to strike
October 1, 2018One win came from the U.S. Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division, while the other came from the pro-worker forces in the state legislature and retiring Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.
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Left Coast Forum weekend offers socialism, Marxism, and more in L.A.
August 15, 2018For many attendees, the most exciting part of the weekend might be the many committed people they meet for productive conversations.
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Cuban film ‘Strawberry and Chocolate’ to screen in L.A.
July 20, 2018Marx@200: The Marxist Movie Series, continues July 26th with a screening of one of socialist Cuba’s most popular films, co-director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s international award-winning Strawberry and Chocolate. This 1993 film, which premiered in Havana and...
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‘Game Girls’: An unfiltered documentary on being Black, lesbian, and homeless
July 19, 2018The unfiltered, and at times unsettling film forces us to acknowledge that the crisis of homelessness is not just faceless statistics.
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Remembering the 1968 East Los Angeles high school blowouts
May 11, 2018I had graduated a year earlier from Lincoln High School not knowing how to read and write proficiently. Now I was marching with others, shouting: "Education not eradication!"
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