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For her actions in creating Sci-Hub, Elbakyan has been called a hero, [46] [66] for example by Nobel laureate Randy Schekman. [67] Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz, [68] and The New York Times has compared her to Edward Snowden. [30] Edward Snowden acknowledged Sci-Hub to be one of the most important websites for academics in the ...
Alexandra Elbakyan at a conference at Harvard (2010). Sci-Hub was created by Alexandra Elbakyan, who was born in Kazakhstan in 1988. [22] Elbakyan earned her undergraduate degree at Kazakh National Technical University [23] studying information technology, then worked for a year for a computer security firm in Moscow, then joined a research team at the University of Freiburg in Germany in 2010 ...
The Shanti Project is a non-profit human services agency based in San Francisco and founded in 1974 by Dr. Charles Garfield in Berkeley, CA. [1] Its goals are to provide peer support and guidance to people affected by HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening conditions.
Mutual aid is an organizational model where voluntary, collaborative exchanges of resources and services for common benefit take place amongst community members to overcome social, economic, and political barriers to meeting common needs. This can include physical resources like food, clothing, or medicine, as well as services like breakfast ...
SCI was criticized for its costs. It cost $6 million annually just for personnel costs for the fifty officers. This was more than the city's annual budget ($5.6 million) for all homeless shelters and services. [3] With each arrest costing Los Angeles about $4,300, SCI arrests cost the city $118 million by 2009. [5]
The sprawling Los Angeles Community College District extends across a 900-square-mile area of Los Angeles County, stretching from San Pedro to San Fernando and from Malibu to Monterey Park. Its ...
The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor (LACFL) is the central labor council for unions and worker organizations in Los Angeles County, California.The organization has its roots in the late 19th century when trade unions across the Los Angeles region formed labor councils for mutual aid, eventually affiliating with the American Federation of Labor in 1901.
Mutualistas were community-based mutual aid societies created by Mexican immigrants in the late 19th century United States. According to media analyst Charles M. Tatum, mutualistas "provided most immigrants with a connection to their mother country and served to bring them together to meet their survival needs in a new and alien country.