In This Special Women's Edition of
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Executive Director’s Note
Creating a Society that Truly Honors Mothers |
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Every year, come May, we honor mothers with flowers and gifts. Like any mother, I enjoy these offerings and the chance to reflect on the many joys of parenting. But the occasion always reminds me of how far we must go to become a society that truly honors mothers. More |
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Up Close
Dollars and Sense:
Understanding America With
Barbara Ehrenreich
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In early 1998, journalist and author Barbara Ehrenreich posed the following questions: How does anyone live on the wages available to the unskilled? And how, in particular, were the 12 million women about to be booted into the labor market by welfare reform going to make it on $6 or $7 an hour? Millions of Americans work |
full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. And in 1998, Ehrenreich joined them. The result was an unprecedented and illuminating work of immersion journalism, a darkly funny odyssey through the underside of the working world. More |
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Dialogue
Warrior in the Court: Attorney Julie Su Fights the Good Fight for Workers—and Usually Wins |
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Co-founder of Sweatshop Watch, Julie Su is a litigation director at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC). Named one of the “Top 75 Women Litigators” in California, she was one of the leaders in fighting for the freedom of the Thai garment workers who were enslaved for years in an apartment complex in El |
| Monte. Since then, Su and APALC have litigated nearly a dozen corporate accountability lawsuits with garment workers, as well as cases dealing with discrimination and segregation. Su spoke with New Vision about her work and the role of women activists in L.A.’s progressive movement. More |
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Getting Personal
Meet the Co-Chair of LAANE’s Honorary Board,
Amy Elaine Wakeland
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This is the first in a series of interviews with LAANE staff and board members, whose eclectic backgrounds and experiences reflect the incredible diversity of Los Angeles. In this edition, we introduce you to Amy Elaine Wakeland,
Co-Chair of LAANE’s Honorary Board. More |
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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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