This morning, Toxic Twins: Soiling the Southland was released- a new Los Angeles-specific report by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the California Environmental Justice Association. This report shows that the two largest financial backers of Proposition 23, the Dirty Energy Proposition, have been cited dozens… Read more
A conversation about race is a difficult sell for many Americans. Being faced with our mistakes over race and racism throughout the years brings shame and pain. Careful use of language and a few generations brought up to believe in a “color blind” mentality have landed us in… Read more
This Saturday, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream Speech, conservatives will gather for a “Restoring Honor” rally at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial. For the Tea Party crowd to connect themselves to the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement can’t be… Read more
“How, then, did we get here? How did the richest country on Earth end up watching children cry for food in putrid encampments on the evening news? How did reporters reach crowds of the desperate in places where police, troops and emergency responders had not yet been–three days after… Read more
Need any more reasons why our communities must unite to stop the dirty energy prop? Let N2O3, a lonely robot Californian from the future tell you why.
94 years ago today, Congress signed the National Park Service Organic Act, which created the National Park Service. Today, the
National Park Service oversees almost 400 designated properties, including 58 with “national park” status.
Growing up in the heart of Los Angeles, near the notorious Rampart… Read more
For a long time, I wrestled with the question of what am I supposed to do when I want social change to happen ASAP. I’ve asked that question forever and even sometimes wake up in a cold sweat trying to figure it out. This happened quite often during that… Read more
5 years ago, Americans were flooded by horrifying images of the Gulf Coast underwater in the aftermath of Katrina. We saw families on rooftops, just inches from the water. Now, similar images are coming out of Pakistan. As Sumayyah wrote yesterday, 1/5 of the country is underwater and the… Read more
4 million homeless. 8 million in need of urgent humanitarian care. 20 million total people affected. Pakistan has become a seemingly endless list of numbers that can only begin to describe the devastation following severe flooding of the Indus river. This crisis has affected more people than the… Read more
![Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette en dochter van Emmeline Pankhurst, protesteert op Trafalgar Square tegen de Engelse politiek in India. Engeland, 18 januari 1932.
Suffragette (women's rights movement) Emmeline Pankhurst protesting the English policy in India. Trafalger Square, Londen, Engeland, [1907-1914].](http://www.ellabakercenter.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/womans-150x150.jpg)
Did you know the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote and yeah, today is the anniversary. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Several generations of women’s suffrage activists lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and… Read more
