Month: January 2019

[su_row][su_column size=”1/3″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column] [su_column size=”1/3″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column] [su_column size=”1/3″ center=”no” class=””] [/su_column][/su_row] Jan. 27 was Holocaust Remembrance Day. We remember the mass genocide of over 6 million Jews, and more than a […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, the outcome of a plan to withdraw from the European Union, suffered a historic defeat in Parliament on Jan. 15. A major obstacle to the Brexit plan is […]

For almost two years the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and Superintendent Austin Beutner, whose background is business and not education, had rejected proposals to invest in public schools. They rejected the teachers’ demands […]

Washington, D.C. — On Jan. 18, the first ever Indigenous Peoples March gathered in Washington, D.C. The march started at the U.S. Department of the Interior and ended on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where a […]

Oakland, Calif. — On Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 21, Oakland’s Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) held its 5th Annual People’s March and Day of Action to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy.   Starting at 8 a.m. and ending […]

Jan. 21 marks Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S. — a holiday won after many years of struggle as a symbol of unity and celebration of the deceased African-American leader’s legacy. His […]

United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), representing more than 30,000 teachers, counselors, librarians, nurses and other school staff, waged a militant six-day strike in mid-January. They won enormous grassroots support from students, parents, the labor movement […]