O my, am I proud of my neighbors today: At least 500,000 people flooded the streets of downtown LA to support immigrant rights in the city’s largest-ever demo.
Indymedia coverage here
Corporate-media coverage here
xo LA

Most people sign up for membership in the auto club AAA for the roadside assistance and similar benefits. Few realize the group is also in the forefront of a lobbying campaign against clean air standards.
Check out this funny new web animation and tell AAA to knock it off at: www.cleanair.org/AAAMonkeys
It’s got […]

The Pittsburgh Post Gazette featured a slideshow on Mountaintop Removal, Clamor’s Spring 06 cover story on its site:
Slideshow: Mountaintop Trouble
From his tiny home atop a mountain in Boone County, W.Va., Larry Gibson has a stark view of what he calls the destruction of a way of life. He’s surrounded by mountains that have […]

Felt like you’ve heard the same mangled lies — read: propaganda — from the Pentagon about the Occupation and Re-colonization campaign in Iraq?
If so, then the folks at DemocraticUnderground have the proof. By Googling it, no less.
Seems that the Bush Administration only knows to recycle the wrong things. In […]

Thanks to LA photographer Lane Barden, we get a birds-eye view of the 14 acres in question. Barden says, “I think it is important for your readers to see what I saw from the air, it is truly amazing to see so much life in the center of one of the largest metropolitan warehousing […]

Over at Counterpunch, Tom Philpott connects the dots between the struggle to preserve the largest urban community garden in the United States and “the contours of civic policy in an era of broad neoliberal consensus.” It’s thanks to government interest in the facilitation of global trade, he writes, that the South Central Farm is […]