Threats to witnesses for criminal trials has long been a problem in urban centers, Los Angeles...
Music 4 Babies Behind Bars
On Sunday, December 20, a very interesting benefit performance is taking place at the Roxy Theater...
Social Justice Shorts
A CALL FOR CONSERVATIVES TO MAKE PRISON REFORM THEIR OWN In an enormously important Op-Ed in...
Do Students Have the Right to Be Mean Online?
In the aftermath of the 2006 cyber-bullying case that led to 13-year-old Megan Meier’s...
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Roses After the Rain
(Yes, I’m sure the neighbors did think I was a bit odd trotting around the yard in the early...
The Invisible New Face of American Prisons
In an excellent article in the current issue of The Boston Review, immigration reporter Tom Barry...
Are LAUSD’s Newest Cuts a Civil Rights Issue?
On Monday, California lawmakers saw their pay cut by 18 percent. Instead of earning $116,208 a...
Jack Weiss, Fred Roggin & Me—on Speed Dial
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Wednesday night I was on KNBC’s The Filter again, this...
Big News! Judge Real Taken off Sanchez Case!……No, Wait…
Monday night the news was startling. Alex Sanchez’s attorney Kerry Bensinger learned that US...
Twittering Chief Charlie Beck With the LA Times – UPDATED
(PHOTO NOTE: A bunch of people posted rainbow-over-Los Angeles photos Monday on Facebook. This...
Tuesday’s Social Justice Shorts
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> WHEN DOES RESTRAINING AND SECLUDING KIDS TURNS ABUSIVE AND...
Arresting Alex Sanchez: Part 7: The 9th Circuit & the Brief
In the past few weeks, a new element has been unfolding in the case of Alex Sanchez. (For those...
Kick-a-Ginger & Better “Demographics”
Over the weekend, LA Times’ Sandy Banks wrote a column about the whole, incredibly creepy...
Video Activism…and Pink Gloves
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Well, okay, they don’t have the dance chops of the kids...
Liam Clancy – 1935-2009: Beat the Drum Slowly
name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Bob Dylan once called him “the best ballad singer...
Battling LA Histories at Father Serra Park: Who Screwed Up?
The city of Los Angeles is in the process of building a brand new war memorial named the Eugene A...
Elmore Leonard, an Immigration Raid & Homeless Violinists
The PEN USA Annual Literary Awards Dinner was Wednesday night. If one is a writer (or an editor or...