Los Angeles :: CA :: USA
| 17 days ago
Tonight the City of Los Angeles held a scoping meeting for the Environmental Impact Report on the South L.A. and Southeast L.A. Community Plan. Exciting, right? You’re on the edge of your seats…Usually there are a handful of people at these...
Tags: planning, Los Angeles, South Los Angeles Community Plan, South East Los Angeles Community Plan, development, gentrification, public meeting, organizing, testimony, racism, poverty, slums
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA
| 6 months ago
Write to the City was a pretty amazing event that took place in downtown L.A. last Thursday, it brought together writers like Luis Rodriguez, Sara Paretsky, and Denise Hamilton with folks that work in the community to trade stories about gentrification...
Tags: gentrification, los angeles, noir, mystery, activism, organizing
Tel Aviv :: Israel
| 7 months ago
As a wave of settlement expansion continues to wash over the Occupied Territories, the increasingly militant Palestinian-Israeli counter-response was evident at this year's week of Land Day demonstrations
Tags: land, Palestine, tel aviv, jaffa, settlement, occupation, israeli, occupied territories, intifada, gentrification, demolition, ethnic cleansing, popular committee