El Sereno’s Reclaimers fought for 5 years to keep their homes. Now they’re all getting evicted. The Reclaimers’ occupation of El Sereno’s empty government homes is ending, but their fight exposes deeper failures in LA’s approach to housing the homeless. lapublicpress.org/2025/05/la-cal…

Oh, hey — it's two years since La Sombrita debuted and LADOT still hasn't released the gender equity action plan, which I was assured contains many, many actions and would be released last summer, then early this year.

I'm just talking to a photojournalist in Gaza. Based on eyewitnesses, they said around 100 people got killed near the aid site in Rafah. It's AM in Gaza now. Please share. There are no journalists in that area to cover this but casualties are arriving at the ICRC field

LA County Sheriff is expected to try and lock out Reclaimer Benito Flores sometime today. Deputies evicted two Reclaimers from a Caltrans-owned house across the street a couple weeks ago. Los Angeles Public Press

LAPD chasing protesters down Alameda towards Little Tokyo while firing flash bangs.

Doesn’t show up on the video but LAPD advanced on crowd and fired another flash bang.

Gaza is being totally annihilated. From Robinson Erhardt on Instagram.

After a nearly five-year rent strike, Hillside Villa tenants reached a deal with their landlord that cuts their rent debt from five years to 9 months. Los Angeles Public Press lapublicpress.org/2025/07/chinat…

LA laws criminalize Westside vehicle dwellers, plunging them into parking ticket debt lapublicpress.org/2025/06/ucla-u… via Los Angeles Public Press

The Hillside Villa case represents one of the longest-running rent strikes in recent Los Angeles history, occurring amid a broader housing crisis that resulted in more than 75,000 people experiencing homelessness in LA County last year. bit.ly/3Gf0bpr

I am still looking to interview someone for this story, and I am also looking for someone who was involved in the wage theft lawsuit with Bottega Louie. Contact is below. Thank you!

LA’s push for parking revenue could worsen crisis for vehicle dwellers. LA wants to raise RV parking tickets by $15 to bring in more money, but activists say the fines unfairly target people living in their vehicles. lapublicpress.org/2025/07/las-pu…

LA bus operators vow to shut doors on ICE to keep immigrant riders safe. Bus operators and riders aren’t waiting on Metro to enact protections for immigrants, they’re sharing know-your-rights information and shielding riders from ICE. lapublicpress.org/2025/07/la-bus…

🔴NEW: "We are on an open hunger strike until the smallest child in Gaza can eat," declared a group of journalists in Gaza as they launched the “Empty Stomach Movement.” As famine worsens in Gaza and Israel blocks all aid, campaigners are urging people worldwide to join them

‘Reclaimer’ Benito Flores dies while resisting eviction from El Sereno home. An organizer remembers Flores as “ a beautiful human being who wanted nothing more than to … not have to worry about being displaced.” lapublicpress.org/2025/07/reclai…

⭕️ Media Committee in Jenin Camp: — On the 192nd day of aggression… despite destruction and displacement… defiant marches sweep through Jenin in support of Gaza and in rejection of genocide and starvation The occupation forces continue their aggression on Jenin and its refugee

AFP warning its Gaza reporters are at risk of literally starving to death - having risked their lives for so long to tell the story that Israel prevents the international media from reaching.

With the generous match from Massive Bookshop I'll be contributing to this fund to help The Sameer Project in South Gaza. Open Books: A Poem Emporium and Workshops4Gaza will be matching up to $1300 today in donations. Please consider a contribution even if it's $10.

The math on LA rent control doesn’t add up for actual tenants. Los Angeles caps rent increases to protect tenants, but landlords are pocketing most of the extra money as profit while renters still can’t afford to stay. lapublicpress.org/2025/07/la-ren…

Al Jazeera and a coalition of media and rights groups signed a joint letter saying journalists in Gaza are being starved “deliberately, and in real time, while the world watches" aje.io/vljen0