Finally Acknowledging the Obvious, Los Angeles Moves to Declare a State of Emergency on Homelessness
Sep 24, 2015 Whether a Truthdig series had anything to do with it or not, the mayor has committed to finding $100 million to get 10,000 people off the streets and into programs to help them.
Truthdigger of the Week: Kshama Sawant
Nov 24, 2013 By winning a seat on Seattle's City Council this month, the socialist has given her fellow citizens one of the best opportunities in living memory to determine their individual and collective futures. Will city residents make good on it?By winning a seat on Seattle's City Council, the socialist has given her fellow citizens one of the best opportunities in living memory to determine their individual and collective futures.
Socialist Elected to Seattle City Council
Nov 16, 2013 Economics professor and Occupy Wall Street activist Kshama Sawant ousted 16-year incumbent Democrat Richard Conlin in the final days of vote tallying on a platform in favor of a $15 minimum wage, rent control and increased taxes on millionaires.
Billionaire Bloomberg Vetoes Living Wage Bill
Apr 26, 2012 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to live in a better world. That’s why he vetoed a law that would have raised the minimum wage for a measly few hundred or so working New Yorkers to at least $10 an hour.
Porn Industry May Quit L.A. Over Condom Policy
Jan 20, 2012 We will do our utmost to report this story without cheesy double entendres. Here goes: Southern California is associated with various people, places and phenomena -- Hollywood, spray tans and bottle blondes, beachside homelessness, that stretch of the 101 highway that's always featured in car commercial, and porn, to name a few.L.A. City Council Votes Against Corporate Personhood
Dec 9, 2011 This week, Los Angeles became the first major city in the United States to call for "a constitutional amendment to clearly establish that human beings -- only human beings -- are entitled to constitutional rights," Move To Amend LA founder Mary Beth Fielder announced.
L.A. Has a Change of Heart, Decides to Evict Occupiers
Oct 27, 2011 Despite showing support early on for the protesters occupying their lawn, the people who run L.A. City Hall have decided the occupation "cannot continue indefinitely." Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa complained to the Los Angeles Times, "The lawn is dead, our sprinklers aren't working … our trees are without water." (more)
Proof That L.A. Is Better Than New York
Oct 13, 2011 Whereas protesters occupying Wall Street depend on a McDonald's to relieve themselves, their counterparts in Los Angeles have port-a-potties Whereas New York's billionaire mayor and pepper-spraying police appear to have sided with the 1 percent, the LA City Council voted unanimously (more).
