By PAUL LAVERACK
POLITICAL MUSCLE

A massive crowd took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, October 15, 2011 as the Occupy Los Angeles movement gained momentum going into its third week. The day’s events were part of a Global Day of Action against corporate greed. Occupy events took place over 1,000 cities worldwide, involving hundreds of thousands of citizens who are tired of the political and economic system favoring the super-rich, at the cost of everyone else.

By PAUL MAVERICK
POLITICAL MUSCLE

As part of the “Take Class Action” series of protests and events surrounding the ongoing California state budget disaster, a panel convenes at California State University Northridge – made of activists and scholars from the campus and elsewhere – to discuss ideas, strategies, and tactics related to social movements in general, and California’s higher education system in particular.

By JULISSA REYES
EL NUEVO SOL

The CSUN 6, as the five students and professor are known, have received much support from fellow students, professors, and community organizations such as Todos Somos Arizona (We Are All Arizona). Supporters could be found sitting in the courtroom and rallying outside the courthouse at the group’s court date Friday Jan. 21. Among the supporters sitting in the courtroom was CSUN professor Rudy Acuña. “I’m here because of the injustice,” Acuña said outside the courtroom. “This is racist. Every person arrested is a person of color.”

By VIRGINIA BULACIO
El Nuevo Sol

Students and activists gathered in Los Angeles to protest against Arizona’s anti-immigrants law and in support of the Dream Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act). Immigrant rights groups and organizations such as The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), and students organizations such as Dreams to be Heard from Cal State Northridge, and IDEAS from UCLA also participated in the protest to support justice and human rights.

By VIRGINIA BULACIO EL NUEVO SOL The mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, talks about domestic violence to a group of students at Fairfax High School Luis Hernández, who graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, came back to his school to attend the lecture of a politician offered to a group of young
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By DENISE VASTOLA A young man stands in front of a RePlanet recycling machine, reaches down into a bag full of plastic bottles, and feeds them one at a time into the mouth of the contraption that clinks, clanks and beeps to a rhythm established by his pace.  He will stand in the hot sun,
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