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In a paper from August 2023 authored by a member of the law faculty at the University of British Columbia, Legislated Ableism: Bill C-7 and the Rapid Expansion of MAiD in Canada, the author argues that the expansion of MAID through Bill C-7 conflicts with the Canadian constitution, violating s.7 and s.15, which pertain to equal protection under ...
Justice for Janitors organizers drew upon lessons from the civil rights movement to conduct demonstrations that increased public awareness of the economic grievances and racial discrimination that service workers encountered in large urban areas, such as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Justice for Janitors was founded on June 15, 1990, when ...
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization founded by Scott Budnick. ARC is a support network for formerly incarcerated individuals and advocates for criminal justice reform. ARC's mission is to reduce incarceration, improve the outcomes of formerly incarcerated individuals, and build healthier communities.
A community of strangers, moved by her plight, offered a new lifeline – over $33,000 raised on GoFundMe.The monetary beacon of hope in her darkness will secure temporary shelter, replace lost ...
StandWithUs was founded in 2001 by Roz Rothstein, a family therapist in Los Angeles whose parents were Holocaust survivors, her husband Jerry Rothstein, and Esther Renzer. [8] She has said the turning point for her came during the Second Intifada , when she observed what she perceived as distorted media portrayal of the conflict, specifically ...
The race includes Mark Gonzalez, chairman of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, and Democrat John Yi, the executive director of pedestrian advocacy nonprofit Los Angeles Walks.
Former Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism on Monday for his "richly evocative and genre-spanning film criticism that reflects on the contemporary ...
Lewis was uniquely qualified to combat the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, having served as the first national secretary of the Anti-Defamation League in Chicago from 1925 to 1931. From 1934 to 1941, the LAJCC maintained its undercover surveillance of the German-American Bund, the Silver Shirts and dozens of other pro-Nazi, nativist groups that ...