Why it’s so difficult to get on the ballot in L.A.
By David Zahniser for LA Times Union leader Cliff Smith had big plans for 2020. He was going to launch a bid for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council, then wage a campaign focused on such issues as police misconduct and the need for public housing. The campaign never got off the ground….
The attack on Israel, and how to respond to it, is roiling L.A.’s election campaigns
By David Zahniser, Dakota Smith, James QueallyLA Times Oct. 12, 2023 6:45 AM PT Three years ago, political newcomer Nithya Raman drew national attention for her come-from-behind election victory, ousting a Los Angeles City Council member and becoming the first member of the Democratic Socialists of America to hold that office. Raman is now running…
636 apartments + retail planned at 4005 Crenshaw Boulevard in Baldwin Hills
The first phase of the Harridge’s Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza redevelopment Two years after completing its acquisition of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, Harridge Development Group is taking its first steps toward redeveloping portions of the landmark shopping mall. Yesterday, Harridge submitted an application to the Los Angeles Department of City Planning seeking entitlements for…
Olympic squeeze: who benefits?
Downtown development, USC expansion and the soccer stadium on one end; Inglewood football stadium, LAX and a planned Clippers arena on the other; with Destination Crenshaw slicing through, anchored by the coming “high end!” Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza — what will happen to the great 8th District’s working class residents? Who is the clientele for…
Community Control Over the Police!
Protest is not a strategy! To solve the problems in our community, we must develop a program to win power. The police can not police themselves and the existing LAPD police commission does not have subpoena power nor disciplinary authority. After the 2005 LAPD killing of 13 year old Devin Brown, Cliff Smith founded the…
Build the Peoples’ Democratic Workers Party!
Unite the many, defeat the few! The masses of working and oppressed peoples in America have no organized political representation to lead our struggle and fight for our interests, to unite and organize us. We must build a Party to provide political leadership to our struggles on the basis of Peoples’ Democracy, majority rule and…