los angeles
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A New Partnership Between Los Angeles And The Navajo Nation Could Be The Start Of A Green New Deal
For more than 40 years, the Navajo Nation helped power the city of Los Angeles through a dirty coal plant on the reservation. The Navajo Generating Station closed late last year, but the link between the city and the Navajo Nation may live on in a way that’s much more healthy.
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Hundreds Of Thousands Have Fled Their Homes As Wildfires Explode Across California
California’s wildfire season arrived with a fierceness earlier this month and conditions have once again become dangerous up and down the Golden State. On Monday, residents near Los Angeles, including basketball star LeBron James, awoke to mandatory evacuation orders as the Getty Fire exploded. Fires continue to burn in Northern California, including the Kincade Fire…
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Uber And Lyft Drivers Strike Alongside Fast Food Workers In LA, Demand $30 Minimum Wage
Around 100 rideshare drivers protested their working conditions this afternoon in Los Angeles, engaging in a “take over” of an Uber Hub, before joining up with a contingent of fast food workers from McDonald’s who were striking for the right to unionize.
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Hundreds Turn Out To Picket Against Uber Amid 25-Hour Driver Strike
In an outpouring of long-simmering tensions between rideshare companies and drivers whose wages have been on the decline, hundreds affiliated or acting in solidarity with grassroots group Drivers United turned out on Monday to picket an Uber Greenlight hub in Redondo Beach, California.