By PAUL LAVERACK
EL NUEVO SOL
Bernard Hyland, a software analyst and progressive activist, visits the Occupy Los Angeles encampment, and shares his thoughts on how the Occupy movement could leverage its power with elected officials to reform the existing system, even as it seeks to make deeper, more revolutionary changes to the economic and political order.
By PAUL LAVERACK
EL NUEVO SOL
Jason, a cameraman on the Occupy LA media team, discusses the excitement and the obstacles he encountered while documenting the social movement against corporate greed, as he and hundreds of others camped on the lawn at Los Angeles City Hall for two months in the autumn of 2011.
By KESS KESSLER
Guest Writer
Longtime San Fernando Valley resident and political activist Kess Kessler considers the significance of the Occupy Los Angeles for the conversation of democracy, and what it means that protestors were expelled from City Hall Park in the early morning hours of November 30, 2011.
By VIRGINIA ISAAD
EL NUEVO SOL
She has vague memories of the day her parents packed up and brought her and her sister to the U.S. One of them is her arriving at an “airport” though in reality she’d arrived to Sun Valley after crossing the border illegally at the age of three.
Growing up, Joselyn Arroyo, 29, would accompany her mother, a janitor at the time, to the KNBC studios in Burbank…
By PAUL LAVERACK
EL NUEVO SOL
Morris Griffin, a protestor at Occupy Los Angeles interviewed on Day 50 of the occupation – November 19, 2011 – demonstrates the creative nature of solutions to social problems which have emerged from the Occupy Wall Street movement.
By PAUL LAVERACK
EL NUEVO SOL
Charles Bowden, award-winning journalist and author of Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields, discusses his new book about the devastation wrought by the ongoing drug war in Mexico. Bowden shares his views on a variety of pressing social and political issues, as shown in a series of video excerpts from the discussion.
By PAUL LAVERACK
EL NUEVO SOL
Kara Hill, the architect and lead project designer for the Valley Performing Arts Center (VPAC), shares insights into the history of large performance spaces, and she details many of the personal and group decisions that influenced the construction of the VPAC, which opened in 2011 on the campus of California State University Northridge.
Por JACQUELINE GUZMÁN-GARCÍA
EL NUEVO SOL
El hablar de retornar a un país que te ha visto nacer pero no te ha visto crecer atemoriza a jovenes indocumentados. Pocos son los “valientes” que se lanzan hacia una nueva aventura en busca de un sueño de una vida mejor. Las razones varían entre el deseo, la motivación o la desesperación, pero al final, los jóvenes que regresan a sus países natales han encontrado que sí hay “una luz al final del tunel”.
More than a gallery, Avenue 50 Studio is a nonprofit arts organization with the purpose of inspiring intercultural understanding By YOSELIN MONTES-CASTILLO EL NUEVO SOL Avenue 50 Studio owner, Kathy Gallegos, sits at her desk surrounded by Latino and Chicano art, planning the next art exhibit. Every month, Gallegos coordinates events and invites some of the most talented Latino
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By VIRGINIA ISAAD
EL NUEVO SOL
Lizbeth, 23, had gone her entire life without questioning her status in the U.S. until applying for college when she was asked to provide a Social Security number she didn’t have. Suddenly the future she had once envisioned for herself was completely out of reach and she had to reconcile her aspirations with the limited options of an undocumented student.
By JOANNA JACOBO
EL NUEVO SOL
“Es importante para mí registrar estos números y las vidas que ellos representan, porque se le debe dar importancia a lo que está pasando. Nadie quiere pensar que su país pueda llegar a ser victima de una situación terrible como ésta, pero es necesario saber, aceptar y en un futuro, entender”.
By JORGE NERI
EL NUEVO SOL
The award-winning author of “Murder City,” Charles Bowden, and the creator of the Frontera List and librarian, Molly Molloy, discussed the situation of Ciudad Juárez and talk about their book “Murder City” in the Jack and Florence Ferman Presentation Room in the Oviatt Library Wednesday morning.
Join us Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. PST when we broadcast the event LIVE from the Jack and Florence Ferman Presentation Room at the Oviatt Library at CSUN.
By: Sabela Scalise El Día de los Muertos crossed borders and cultures in the Hollywood Forever Cementery On Oct. 22, Hollywood Forever Cemetery hosted a large festival for all ages and cultures to come and join together and celebrate Dia de los Muertos, or “Day of the Dead.” Dia de los Muertos stems from an Aztec
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By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
This series of videos highlights several speakers from the “RePower LA” community meeting at the Pacoima Community Center on November 5, 2011. Speakers include Ricardo De Los Santos, a DWP trainee weatherizing low-income homes for energy efficiency; Eric Garcetti, the president of the Los Angeles City Council; Kent Minault, volunteer coordinator for the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign; and Ron Nichols, the general manager of Los Angeles Department of Water & Power.
Por VIRGINIA BULACIO
EL NUEVO SOL
Ciento de personas y familias de diferentes nacionalidades se unieron para festejar el Día de los Muertos en el Cementerio Hollywood Forever, en Santa Mónica Boulevard.
By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
During this in-depth interview with Arman Hardwick and Jason Ackerman, two undergraduate student activists at Occupy CSUN on October 13, 2011, discussion ranges across the causes of the current economic downturn, FDR and his response to the Great Depression, the excesses of capitalism, solutions offered by socialism, and the need to get corporate money out of politics.
By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
Linda López, una recamarera del hotel Hyatt Century Plaza con quince años de experiencia, participa en una protesta fuera del lujoso hotel Hyatt Andaz en West Hollywood, CA., el 21 de julio de 2011. López describe cómo ella y otras recamareras están bajo presión constante, cómo se lesionan por exceso de trabajo y lo que el Hyatt Corporation quiere quitar a los trabajadores en sus negociaciones de contrato de dos años de duración.
By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
Hotel housekeepers for the Hyatt Corporation, and an official of their union, speak at a protest in front of the luxurious Hyatt Andaz hotel in West Hollywood, CA on July 21, 2011. They paint a picture of abnormally high injury rates, chronic overwork, and management that is deaf to the workers’ entreaties.
By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE
A variety of voices explain why they joined the strike against the Hyatt Andaz luxury hotel in West Hollywood, CA from September 8-15, 2011. Speakers include a housekeeper currently working at the Hyatt Andaz, as well as the union local president, a Congresswoman, a City Councilman, a member of the California Assembly, and the union’s Communications Director responding to a statement from Hyatt management.
