Articles for Community Organizations

California puts $25 million toward worker safety outreach amid fire rebuilding efforts
1 week, 5 days ago

California puts $25 million toward worker safety outreach amid fire rebuilding efforts

LA Times  

Volunteers, members of the Day Labor Fire Brigade from the Pasadena Community Job Center, clean up neighborhood streets in Pasadena. California officials on Tuesday announced $25 million in funding to help community organizations educate workers about their rights and workplace safety. “California is implementing a unique model that leverages trusted local messengers to communicate directly with workers,” said California Labor …

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Anti-hate groups critical of O.C. report charting hate crime decline in 2023
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Anti-hate groups critical of O.C. report charting hate crime decline in 2023

LA Times  

A protester holds up a sign during a Black Lives Matter rally at in Newport Beach in 2020. By contrast, the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations’ recent “No More Silence” hate crimes report for 2023 charted a dramatic 45% increase, including the largest number of bias-motivated attacks against African Americans, Latinos, Jewish and LGBTQ+ people ever recorded. “When …

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Community groups criticize Newsom for omitting health equity funds
2 years, 8 months ago

Community groups criticize Newsom for omitting health equity funds

LA Times  

Gavin Newsom is facing criticism from community organizations after he declined for the second straight year to provide money in the state budget for a proposed fund aimed at advancing health equity and racial justice. Sonya Young Aadam, chief executive of the California Black Women’s Health Project, a nonprofit based in Inglewood, said the statement confirmed her concerns that Newsom …

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Asian Americans Still Feel Under Attack
3 years ago

Asian Americans Still Feel Under Attack

Slate  

Jo-Ann Yoo lives in New York City, but she rarely takes the subway anymore. Sometimes the ride from one station to the next is a long, long ride, and you’re basically in a little metal box.” One more thing to know about Jo-Ann Yoo: She’s Asian. “I did not expect this to be this long, and I’ll say that my …

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Staffing shortages, exhaustion, family vacations temper big summer-school hopes
3 years, 8 months ago

Staffing shortages, exhaustion, family vacations temper big summer-school hopes

LA Times  

The message to schools from top brass, including Gov. This year, L.A. Unified and San Diego Unified, the state’s two largest school systems, opened up in-person summer programs to all students. The district typically serves 5,000 of its 98,000 students through its summer program, which in the past comprised credit recovery for high schoolers and an “extended school year” for …

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Kathua Rape Case: Lawyers' Organizations Condemn Blocking Of Charge-Sheet By Kathua Lawyers
6 years, 11 months ago

Kathua Rape Case: Lawyers' Organizations Condemn Blocking Of Charge-Sheet By Kathua Lawyers

Live Law  

The Lawyers Forum for Democracy and Justice has issued a press statement condemning the act of a few lawyers who tried to prevent the filing of the charge sheet in the matter of rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir. Calling the obstruction a "shameful blot on the legal community", it has requested the Bar …

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Angels’ New Owner Puts Fans at the Top of the Order
21 years, 10 months ago

Angels’ New Owner Puts Fans at the Top of the Order

LA Times  

Times Staff Writers When you’re Arte Moreno -- new owner of the World Series champion Anaheim Angels and possessor of a set of keys to Edison International Field -- you can pretty much do what you want. “He’s got to be more than a Latino surname,” said Amin David, leader of the civic group Los Amigos of Orange County. “He …

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