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Occupy LA Cameraman: "This is history in the making"
By PAUL LAVERACK EL NUEVO SOL A member of the Occupy Los Angeles 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. Click here for the full story, larger video.
Will Occupy Movement Be a Force in Electoral Politics?
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. Click here for the full story, larger video.
Green Jobs Coalition Plans to "RePower LA"
By PAUL LAVERACK POLITICAL MUSCLE A coalition of civil society groups, including the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), Pacoima Beautiful, and the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, meet in the Pacoima Community Center to share the thinking behind the RePower LA project, which seeks to achieve financial and environmental savings for LA residents by improving energy-efficiency in low-income homes, creating hundreds of new 'green' jobs in the process. Click here for the full story, larger video.
Hundreds "Occupy Los Angeles" As Major Protest Begins
By PAUL LAVERACK POLITICAL MUSCLE Hundreds of protestors gather in City Hall Park in downtown Los Angeles for the first night of 'Occupy Los Angeles,' an anti-greed protest begun in solidarity with 'Occupy Wall Street,' which began two weeks before. Participants say they are willing to stay 'as long as it takes' to change a political and economic system which serves the ultra-wealthy at the expense of everyone else. Click here for the full story, larger video.