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On AlterNet: los angeles

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "los angeles"

Free Market Vultures Are Snatching Away the Livelihoods of Minorities in the Inner City

Free Market Vultures Are Snatching Away the Livelihoods of Minorities in the Inner City

Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant AlterNet: PEEK. November 17, 2009.
T.A. Frank, a think tank lackey, has a solution to America's housing problem: Ship all the poor black and Hispanic people to abandoned McMansions.

Why Is L.A.'s District Attorney Aiding and Abetting Mexican Drug Cartels?

Why Is L.A.'s District Attorney Aiding and Abetting Mexican Drug Cartels?

Bruce Mirken, Daily News. October 15, 2009.
Attorney Cooley has sweeping plans to boost the profits of drug cartels, and increasing the slaughter these vicious gangs perpetrate on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Possible Major Speed Bump on the Way to Legal Marijuana

Possible Major Speed Bump on the Way to Legal Marijuana

Stephen Webster, Raw Story. October 11, 2009.
In spite of a law on California books for over a decade allowing sales of pot, L.A. DA Steve Cooley suddenly announces, "The time is right to deal with this problem."

Bodies Stack Up as California Counts Cost of Funerals

Agence France Presse July 24, 2009.
Bodies left unclaimed, cadavers stacked high in morgues and burial rates tumbling as loved ones cut funeral costs: the crippling recession is even haunting the dead across the United States.

A Los Angeles Trend Worth Following for Earth Day

A Los Angeles Trend Worth Following for Earth Day

Nathan Havey, Brave New Films AlterNet: Environment. April 22, 2009.
If you're paying electrical bills, make sure that money goes to renewable energy.

Love Bites: An Interview With Toby Barlow

Love Bites: An Interview With Toby Barlow

Tony DuShane, Mother Jones. July 12, 2008.
The author of the future cult novel Sharp Teeth talks about his tale of werewolves in Los Angeles.

LA Teacher Fired for Teaching Students to Think

LA Teacher Fired for Teaching Students to Think

Feministe AlterNet: PEEKJune 20, 2008.
Students rally behind inspirational instructor.

Believe It or Not, L.A. Was Almost Our Greenest City

Believe It or Not, L.A. Was Almost Our Greenest City

Robert Gottlieb, Sierra Magazine. March 10, 2008.
Southern California set the nation on the path to bicycling bliss, then detoured. But smogville could still become a velotopia.

Super Tuesday Voting Already Raising Serious Concerns

Super Tuesday Voting Already Raising Serious Concerns

Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet AlterNet: Election 2008. February 5, 2008.
Delays cause voters to leave in Georgia; Anti-Obama mailer resurfaces in Massachusetts; Los Angeles ballot layout could undercount votes.

Los Angeles Police Are Gentrifying the City's Skid Row -- with Force

Los Angeles Police Are Gentrifying the City's Skid Row -- with Force

Jessica Hoffmann, ColorLines. October 20, 2007.
As the affluent take the city, poor Black residents are being pushed out with force.

Two Women Left to Die by Authorities

Two Women Left to Die by Authorities

Philip Barron, AlterNet: PEEK. June 13, 2007.
Philip Barron: Institutional disregard claims two lives, half a country apart.

The Media Gets it Wrong: L.A. Gang Violence Not

The Media Gets it Wrong: L.A. Gang Violence Not "Ethnic Cleansing"

Tarso Luís Ramos, ColorLines. June 8, 2007.
A recent deluge of news stories claim that Latinos are "ethnically cleansing" their African American neighbors in southern California.

The Smog of Race War in LA

The Smog of Race War in LA

Roberto Lovato, The Nation. March 19, 2007.
Battles between the city's black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.

Ethnic Cleansing in L.A.

Ethnic Cleansing in L.A.

Brentin Mock, SPLC Intelligence Report. January 20, 2007.
Acting on orders from the Mexican Mafia, Latino gang members in Southern California are terrorizing and killing blacks.

The Forbidden Racial Zone

The Forbidden Racial Zone

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet. January 3, 2007.
Believe it or not, in America, in 2007, there's a forbidden zone where blacks risk death if they enter.