We have hundreds of people that have been kept, tested positive in the LA County jail, had our first death this week, unfortunately. We’ve been suing the state, as well as local county officials, our organizations, Youth Justice Coalition, and Dignity and Power Now, are named plaintiffs ...
The Youth Justice Coalition initiates these updates/discussions for the public and County officials and Departments. YJC’s points are: Demand human rights to release from juvenile halls, camps and jails, protection of due process, and health and community connection for people under county custody ...
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Meaningful progress in state-diaspora relations, legal investment in the island’s private sector, and guaranteeing greater rights for all Cubans to participate in their county’s economic, political, and public affairs would materially reduce Cuba’s exposure to the dynamics of the Helms-Burton Act...
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation used the parade to spotlight housing affordability, gentrification and homelessness and win support for an initiative it is seeking to place on the November ballot to remove local restrictions against rent control. The foundation's float featured the downtown Los ...
AFFIRM is a non-profit organization which is building a coalition in medicine for the purpose of researching and addressing this newest public health issue. They argue that,without medical evidence we won’t be able to find solutions to the senseless loss of life from gun violence. Death from...
AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION 6255 W. Sunset Blvd. 323-860-5200 EDITORS’ CHOICE, BEST NON-PROFIT: LOS ANGELES LESBIAN & GAY CENTER Founded by Morris Kight in 1969, LA’s LGBT Center is now the world’s largest LGBT social service agency and community center and is in the middle of an ...
A health coalition of physicians, clinic and hospital officials had urged the supervisors to use all of the estimated $30 million to $38 million the county will receive annually for health care and anti-smoking programs. The board had proposed spending only $8 million of that for health care...
SB 1524 “will enable restaurants to continue to support increased pay equity and to make contributions to worker health care and other employee benefits,” Matthew Sutton of the California Restaurant Assn. said in a statement. “And, importantly, consumers will rem...
AB 133: Healthcare with Medi-Cal This is a huge bill with lots of components not related to the criminal legal system (the biggest of which expanded Medi-Cal eligibility to undocumented immigrants 50 and up). Couched in its text are clauses that would expand access to Medi-Cal for people...