In LA, sonidera cumbia is a counterforce against policing and immigration enforcement
Cumbia de Mi Tierra at Human Resources traces how cumbia sonidera culture becomes a form of resistance and gathering space for immigrant communities in LA.
Rent increases outpace LA seniors’ social security checks in affordable housing
Tenants are skipping basic necessities like haircuts in order to keep up with 10% rent increases.
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Your LA Public Press is here to help you stay informed via our Voter Guide.
We'll continue updating this page as we get closer to June 2 to make sure you feel prepared to make your voice heard!
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NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal.
Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.
They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.
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LA is in a budget crisis. Here are your candidates for City Controller
LA Controller Kenneth Mejia says he wants transparency and accountability on municipal finances. His challenger says he will scrutinize how every public dollar is spent.
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My latest
LA "Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously [..] to cut ties with any vendors supporting or enabling the mass detention, surveillance, or racial profiling of immigrants by [ICE] or other federal agencies."
#California #USA #Surveillance #Education #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
State agrees to retest for lead at homes near Exide where cleanups failed
They thought their gardens and lawns were lead-free after the state led cleanups at their homes. But the largest environmental clean up of residential properties in California history hasn’t gone according to plan.
I wrote about LAUSD’s ties to Welligent, which manages students’ health and special education records. The company is a subsidiary of ContinuumCloud, Inc., which is owned by Battery Ventures, a tech investment firm with investments in tech companies doing business with DHS and firms in Israel.
LAUSD says it will cut out vendors with ties to ICE. Educators flag contract connected to defense tech investment firm
A California lawmaker said she’s concerned about the Trump administration seeking access to private data to target immigrant families in immigration sweeps
My latest story looks at a proposed California law that would grant the states’s 100k+ undocumented students equal access to campus employment. Currently, they can receive stipends from internships or to be paid under the table at off-campus jobs, but students told me it's not enough.
As war returns to Iran, an Iranian-American artist turns an LA café into a sanctuary of memory and culture
Caspian Coast Coffee creates a diasporic bridge between the Caspian Sea and LA as Iranian Americans grapple with conflict and longing for a freer homeland.
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, served alongside U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan since 2005. He was somehow fortunate enough to have his family evacuated with him in 2021 when the U.S. abandoned most Afghan allies’ families.
ICE grabbed him on Friday and he was dead in under 24 hours.
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes.
Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
(Published Dec. 2024)
How LAUSD’s Black Student Achievement Plan has persevered despite DEI backlash:
Activists and students say BSAP is closing academic gaps by supporting Black students’ learning and lowering chronic absenteeism over the past five years.
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Tenant organizers encourage people in LA to host letter-writing parties to help immigrant families stay in public housing.
A national coalition is soliciting thousands of public comments to block a proposed federal rule.
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Jeffrey Epstein reportedly paid a settlement to a woman who also accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her.
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LA undocumented college students are still fighting for access to campus jobs
Students lobbied elected leaders, sued the University of California, and even engaged in a hunger strike to access campus jobs. A proposed state law would give them what they seek.
NEW: 5 Black family homes worth $2.1M burned to the ground
The insurance check? $297,000
One sister dead
Investors circling the ashes
This is what “disaster capitalism” looks like
Read what they did to Altadena’s Black families & what that signals for all of us: capitalbnews.org/housing-insu...
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Just devastating. A landslide triggered by heavy rains appears to have killed over 200 people, including 70 children, at a mine in the DR Congo.
This is about a month after a *different* landslide killed over 200 people at the same mine www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
"The Trump administration wants to spend $220 million to arm immigration agents with about 17,800 new Tasers, a massive increase from the current 4,300 in the field. ICE plans to buy the Tasers and unlimited cartridges & to obtain training for the agents." https://bit.ly/3MFXX5M
