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Hot Off The Press
The Latest Articles and Books on Economic Inequality
in America
Articles
Womenomics 101
By Joshua Holland
AlterNet
Discrimination Not Illegal Immigrants Fuel
Black Job Crisis
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Our Weekly
Gauging the Benefits of a Living Wage in L.A.
By Renée Montagne
National Public Radio (NPR)
How Secure Is Your Job?
By Laura Barcella
AlterNet
Income Gap More Like a Chasm
By Steve Lopez
Los Angeles Times
Minimum Wage, Maximum Benefits
By Raj Nayak
Center for American Progress
Unregulated Work
By SioBhán McGrath and Nina Martin
Dollars and Sense
New Progress for Progressive Media
By Don Hazen
AlterNet
Books
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Motherhood Manifesto: What America's Moms Want—And What to Do About It
By Joan Blades and Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner
This book, co-written by one of the founders of MoveOn.org, explores the experiences of American mothers and lays out solutions for empowering mothers at home and in the workplace.
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Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless (with Kids) in America: My Story
By Michelle Kennedy
In this first-person account, the author tells the story of how she and her three children survived a summer living out of a car, offering a deeply personal portrait of poverty and homelessness in America.
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Generation Debt: Why Now Is a Terrible Time to Be Young
By Anya Kamenetz
An examination of the growing crisis faced by twenty- and thirty-something Americans as they
face the harsh realities of shrinking wages, disappearing benefits and skyrocketing housing and education costs.
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 Class Action: The Landmark Case that Changed Sexual Harassment Law
By Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler
The book that inspired the movie by the same name chronicles the mistreatment of women working in the iron mines of Minnesota.
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Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
By Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis
In this important book, the authors investigate the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we knew it. |
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Barbara Ehrenreich, Julie Su to Headline LAANE’s Women For a New Los Angeles Luncheon
Friday, May 19, 2006
USC Davidson Conference Center, 3415 S. Figueroa St. at Jefferson Blvd., L.A. |
Join Southern California’s most involved and active women for what is proving to be the event for women in the progressive movement. Celebrating its third year, the Women for a New Los Angeles Luncheon is a place to network, see old friends and make new acquaintances while forming meaningful partnerships with other progressive women leaders in the Los Angeles area.
Civil rights attorney and Macarthur Genius Fellow Julie Su will be the keynote speaker, while Barbara Ehrenreich, the best-selling author of Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch, will receive a special award. The event will also feature entertainment and will be emceed by Brenda Sutton-Wills, staff counsel for the California Teachers Association. More
For more information or tickets, contact Trebor Healey, Development Coordinator, at (213) 977-9400, x134.
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Author David Korten comes to Los Angeles
David Korten, author of the bestseller When Corporations Rule the World – one of the first books to articulate the destructive and oppressive nature of the global corporate economy – will be appearing at several Southern California readings and workshop events this month. Korten will discuss his latest book, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, in which he makes the case that we have the opportunity to choose our future in the face of climate change and the financial instability inherent in an unbalanced global trading system that is fast unraveling.
The book describes how we can turn a potentially terminal crisis into an opportunity to bring forth a new era of community grounded in the life-affirming cultural values shared by the majority of people around the world.
Friday, May 12, 7 p.m.
Reading Event
Saturday, May 13, 8:30 a.m.
Daylong Workshop with Author Frances Moore-Lappe
Sunday, May 14, 10:15 a.m.
Rector's Forum
All events will be held at
All Saints Church
132 North Euclid Avenue, Pasadena |
For more information call
626-796-1172.
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2006 City of Justice Dinner
Mark Your Calendars!
LAANE’s 2006 City of Justice Awards Dinner is set for Thursday, November 30. Following the success of the 2005 event last December, LAANE is looking forward to another gala celebration, bringing together activists, elected officials, and community, religious and business leaders from around Los Angeles and beyond in support of LAANE’s mission to build a city of justice. |
Past Event Review |
Film Premiere of Lyn Goldfarb’s The New Los Angeles
Community, business, civic and religious leaders, along with dozens of hotel housekeepers, walked down the red carpet at Paramount Studios in Hollywood on April 19 to celebrate the world premiere of Lyn Goldfarb’s powerful documentary The New Los Angeles, which recounts the rapid social and economic changes in Los Angeles over the last three decades. Part of a new four-part PBS series, California and the American Dream, the film takes viewers on a journey from the bitterly fought, racially driven elections that brought Mayor Tom Bradley to power in 1973 to the historic 2005 election of L.A.'s first Latino mayor in more than 130 years, Antonio Villaraigosa.
Along the way, The New Los Angeles examines how race, labor and immigration have shaped the city's political life and landscape, employing historical footage of the 1992 riots, hotel and liquor store pickets, protests against Proposition 187, and actions by striking janitors and hotel workers. "Coalitions helped build L.A., and coalitions will help carry us into the future," said Goldfarb. "Right now we are a model.”
Visit CaliforniaDreamSeries.org to find out more about the series, the film’s community outreach campaign or to purchase a DVD or VHS of the series. |
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