Monthly Archives: April 2013

Lost Treasures of the LBC’s Art Show

Apr. 22, 2013 / By
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Stop by for an evening of art and explore what folks were able to create from what they found in their neighborhood!..

Emergency Contraception Ruling a Win for Immigrant Women

Apr. 22, 2013 / By
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New America Media, Commentary, Jessica González-Rojas

Women’s health advocates received welcome news earlier this month when a federal judge ruled that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must make the most popular forms of emergency contraception (also known as the morning-after pill) available for all women over-the-counter...

Students Mull Over Effects of Health Class Cuts

Apr. 20, 2013 / By
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Empty classrooms sit unoccupied while posters of the food pyramid and a woman’s reproductive cycle collect dust on the walls...

Snapshots of Homeless Youth in Long Beach

Apr. 19, 2013 / By
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The stereotype of a homeless person is such: an older man, holding a sign, with missing teeth, begging on a street corner...

Cambodian New Year Celebrated Through Art and Struggle

Apr. 19, 2013 / By
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In the aftermath of years of war, over 1 million Cambodia refugees fled with their families to rebuild their lives in the U.S...

Celebrate: Hyatt Hotel Workers Unionize in Long Beach!

Apr. 19, 2013 / By
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From a newsletter sent by the LB Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community

Last week, a four year boycott of the Hyatt Regency Long Beach officially ended when workers voted to have Unite Here Local 11 represent them as a bargaining unit within both Hyatt Regency Long Beach and Hyatt the Pike Long Beach. ..

School Buses Partially Reinstated

Apr. 19, 2013 / By
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photo courtesy of Merced Sun-Star’s Bea Ahbec

Late last year, Merced High School Districts bus routes were cut to students that lived within five miles of their respective high schools...

Rick Ross Lyric Shows Rape Isn’t Taken Seriously

Apr. 19, 2013 / By
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By Karina Guadalupe

Put Molly all in the champagne. She ain’t even know it. I took her home and I enjoy that...

Gov. Brown, Healthcare Advocates At Odds Over Medi-Cal Expansion

Apr. 19, 2013 / By
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New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram

SACRAMENTO – Health care advocates warn that time is running out on drawing down federal dollars to expand Medi-Cal, a move that would prevent nearly 1.4 million low-income Californians from remaining uninsured when health care reform is fully implemented Jan...

Governor Does About-Face on Obama’s Health Care Law

Apr. 17, 2013 / By

New America Media/Miami Times, News Report, D. Kevin McNeir

Republican governors like Florida’s Rick Scott are slowly realizing that opposing President Barack Obama’s health care law — the Affordable Care Act — may be both political suicide and bad for hundreds of thousands of citizens who lack health care...

‘El Hielo’: Music Video Inspires Immigrant Rights Activists, Goes Viral

Apr. 17, 2013 / By
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New America Media, News Report, Valeria Fernández

PHOENIX — Two immigrant mothers stood outside the downtown Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office holding a sign that read, “They have a Dream.”..

Community Members Lead ‘People’s State of the City’

Apr. 17, 2013 / By
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It’s perhaps the biggest congregation of Long Beach activist groups.

It’s the Mayor’s State of the City...