The Color of Money Lending: Home-Mortgage Data Reflects Ethnic Bias

Minorities More Likely to be Denied Loans Despite Good Income, Credit Rating.

High Tech High

A new charter school with a college-prep, math, science and tech-oriented curriculum is drawing interested students and parents alike from across LA, including many from minority and low-income neighborhoods. The lure is the prospect of a quality education focused on technological advancements.

Armenian Genocide Story Suppression at LA Times

Politics & Community 

submitted by david 384 days ago.

Looks like we got a great story brewing about bias and ethics over at the LA Times

F#%@! The Police!

Politics & Community 

submitted by killa 374 days ago.

What do the people do when the same system set up to protect and serve a community, actually harm and brutalize it?

Step 1: Move In Next to Race Track Step 2: Ban Drifting

Politics & Community 

submitted by david 383 days ago.

I feel like there's something wrong with this picture... How can you move in next to a racetrack and complain that people are using it.

Encampment Protest Raises Awareness About Homeless Problem

Politics & Community 

submitted by Tom McKenzie 374 days ago.

Activists' Encampment at City Hall Calls on Mayor to Improve Homelessness Strategy

Taylor Days by Brad Taylor Negron

05-09-08

- My Mother

My Mom and Dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when West Side Story was real. They have the scars to prove it. “They used to break bottles on a fence and follow me home. Look where they got me.” Mom’s story of her scars terrified me. “They?” Who were “they”—and could they find us here at my grandmother’s bungalow in Echo Park, which was often filled with people who had been exiled from many places—Soc...

Comin' From Where I'm From by Kamren Curiel

05-12-08

- News From the United Farm Workers

I have to post this as the news is heartbreaking: Hundreds of Farm Workers Evicted Following News Coverage. Take Action Now! Yesterday more than 100 migrant farm workers were living in an orchard. Tonight they have no place to go. Why, you ask? These Washington state cherry pickers came to Shafter, California after being told by company representatives to come to Califronia for a job in the cherries. Consequently workers and their families traveled from Washington State to work at the ...

Edge Pusher by Edge Pusher

05-08-08

- The Pentagon vs. America by Scott Ritter

This piece by the former UN Weapons Inspector and truth-telling critic of the Bush administration appeared on our good friend site, www.truthdig.com, which we recommend highly for superb national and international news and analysis. I recently heard from an anti-war student I met while I was speaking at a college in northern Vermont. The e-mail included the following query: “I told you about how I wanted to build a career around social activism and making a difference. You t...