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In This Edition of New Vision
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S NOTE
Forging a Blue-Green Alliance
at the Grassroots
By Madeline Janis
FEATURES
Fighting Back
Workers, Communities Turn Up the Heat on LAX-Area Hotels
Together At Last
- Building a Lasting Partnership Between the Labor and Environmental Movements
by Chuck Mack, International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Tom Politeo, Sierra Club
Up Close
Clean Ports Advocate Maria Ramirez Looks Out for the Children
JUSTICE ON THE MARCH
Edwards, Obama Call on TESCO to Sign a Community Benefits Agreement
Fight for Responsible Hospital Development in N.E. Valley May Turn to the Courts
L.A., Long Beach Mayors Pledge Support for Comprehensive Solution to Port Truck Pollution
Vote Nears on Standards for Airline Contractors
DEPARTMENTS
Getting Personal
LAANE Honorary Board Member Beth Sieroty Meltzer’s Commitment
to Social Justice Has Deep Roots
Cooking for Justice
Labor Leader Maria Elena Durazo’s Tostadas
Research Roundup
A Quarterly Selection of New Research on Jobs, Workplace Standards and the Economy
Comic Relief
Cartoon
Hot Off the Press
The Latest Articles on Economic Inequality in America
Support the Work of LAANE
Please Help Us Continue Our Work
Executive Director’s Note
Forging a Blue-Green Alliance at the Grassroots |
LAANE Executive Director Madeline Janis |
Concern about the widening gap between rich and poor is what initially drew me to the work that LAANE does. I knew that we could not address the staggering levels of inequality we face in Los Angeles—and throughout the country—through social service work alone, that a broad movement was necessary to correct what is ultimately an imbalance of power in our society. More |
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Fighting Back
Workers, Communities Turn Up the Heat on LAX-Area Hotels |
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Hotel workers and their community supporters have increased pressure on the hotels near LAX as part of an ambitious two-year campaign to improve conditions for 3,500 hotel employees and their families.
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Together At Last
Building a Lasting Partnership Between the Labor and Environmental Movement
by Chuck Mack, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Tom Politeo, Sierra Club
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Carte blanche trade agreements like NAFTA have accelerated global warming, depressed wages here at home and increased worker exploitation in the developing world. Yet for years, different sectors of the progressive movement saw the economics of good jobs and green growth as distinctly different areas of concern….More |
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Up Close
Clean Ports Advocate Maria Ramirez Looks Out for the Children |
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Maria Ramirez always dreamed of coming to the United States from her native Chihuahua, Mexico, to go to a university. Her parents had a different vision—they wanted her to work, but she managed to finish high school and came to the U.S. when she was 20, determined that her children would have the college education she had missed. More |
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Support the Work of LAANE
LAANE is committed to building a city of justice, and we need your help. Contributions from supporters make it possible for us to transform our economy into one that creates better jobs and stronger communities. Please help us continue this work. (LAANE is a nonprofit organization and contributions to LAANE are tax deductible.) Donate |
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Recommended Reading
A selection of books on the labor and environmental movements, democracy, and the economy. |
Labor and the Environmental Movement: The Quest for Common Ground
 Once characterized as "Teamsters and Turtles," labor and environmentalists have worked together on workplace health and safety, environmental restoration and globalization. Obach examines why, when and how labor unions and environmental organizations either cooperate or clash. (MIT Press) |
Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City
 Gottlieb examines how the powerful forces of immigration and economic globalization intersect with the politics of water, transportation and land use, and illustrates each of these core concerns with an account of grassroots responses, from reclaiming the concrete-lined, fenced-off Los Angeles River as a natural resource to "Arroyofest," the closing of the Pasadena Freeway for a Sunday of walking and bike riding.
(MIT Press)
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The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America
 A historical novel about the massacre of 18 men, women, and children of coal mining families at a mine owned by the Rockefellers in Colorado in 1914. The book is written in free verse, adding a poetic quality to
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The Conscience of a Liberal
 Krugman’s most important message is that, after years of Republican ascendancy accompanied by rapidly growing economic inequality in the United States, the point at which the pendulum finally starts swinging in the other direction has arrived. Krugman insists that the political tide is turning, and that liberals must take advantage of it. (W.W. Norton) |
LAANE’s City of Justice Awards Dinner
Honorees:
Councilwomen
Janice Hahn
UNITE HERE President
Bruce Raynor
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