Harold Meyerson (a child of both L.A. and the ’60s) and Melina Abdullah (co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles) in conversation with Jon Wiener and Mike Davis on the 55th anniversary of the Watts uprising
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Karen Bass: The Movement Activist as Vice President
Can this star product of South L.A.’s social justice ferment end up as Joe Biden’s improbable veep?
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Unsanitized: State Unemployment Systems Need to Be Federalized and Overhauled
California’s experience serves as a good example. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for August 1, 2020.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up
As California attorney general, she spent years subverting a 2011 Supreme Court ruling requiring the state to reduce its prison population. The overseeing judicial panel nearly found the state in contempt of court.
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The $11 Billion Question: Will Californians Raise Commercial Property Taxes?
Proposition 15 leaps feet first onto California’s ‘third rail’ of state politics—the property tax system created in 1978 by Proposition 13.
Posted inWorking in America
In California, Child Care Providers Vote to Unionize
43,000 workers who care for the kids of state-subsidized poor families have gone union in the nation’s largest organizing victory in many years.
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Who Should Say When a Workplace Is Safe? The Workers, That’s Who.
Today on TAP: L.A. County empowers workers’ councils
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A Debate Over Nancy Pelosi
Robert Creamer of Democracy Partners responds to a recent Prospect article on Pelosi. The author responds to him.
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Trump’s Immigration Order: Fast Track to an Abusive Past
The president limits U.S. entry to farmworkers with no rights—a boon to both Big Ag and nativists.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Beyond Justice: A Talk With Black Lives Matter’s Melina Abdullah
A co-founder of the activist organization’s Los Angeles chapter explains the distance between Trayvon Martin and George Floyd.