In big, sprawling cities like Los Angeles, transportation is key. Without it, you can’t get to work, to the grocery store, or anywhere else you might need to go. For the middle class and the wealthy, the answer is...

Police harassment of the homeless community, gentrification, and the fight for their civil rights. Pete White is Founder and Co-Director of the Los Angeles Community Action Network, also known as (LA CAN), which organizes and trains low-income and homeless persons in LA's downtown to help...

Jay will tell us about his latest political work as the lead founder of the organization Fix Our America and the effort to amend the constitution. Jay Levin, is a journalist, activist, and founder of the LA Weekly. Levin has worked...

Cinthia Gonzalez discusses The Labor Community Strategy Center's Civil Rights rally: President Obama: Enforce, Restore, Expand Our Civil Rights! and the broader work of the Bus Riders Union and training young organizers as a youth organizer with the Community Rights...

Van Jones, president and co-founder of Rebuild the Dream, discusses the U.S. economy, foreclosures, student loans, Obama, Occupy, and what it means to build the movement. Rebuild the Dream describes their organization as: A platform for bottom-up, people-powered organizing, teach-ins, online...

Kim McGill, an organizer with the Youth Justice Coalition of Los Angeles, discusses recruiting and training young organizers around the issues of the juvenile injustice system, police and prison funding, the school to prison pipeline, what it means to build a...