Jay Levin of Fix Our America

Jay Levin of Fix Our America

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...

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Cinthia Gonzalez on The Labor Community Strategy Center’s Civil Rights Rally

Cinthia Gonzalez on The Labor Community Strategy Center’s Civil Rights Rally

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...

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Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream

Van Jones of Rebuild the Dream

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...

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Kim McGill of Youth Justice Coalition

Kim McGill of Youth Justice Coalition

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...

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Carla Gonzalez On Training High School Students As Community Organizers

Carla Gonzalez On Training High School Students As Community Organizers

Carla is a community rights activist and co-founder and leader of the Summer Youth Organizing Academy (SYOA). Carla has been doing amazing work recruiting and training young high school age organizers for many years now from many of LA's...

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Crystal McMillan of L/CSC

Crystal McMillan of L/CSC

The Strategy Center organizer and policy analyst Crystal McMillan, tells us about the Federal Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill that was just passed by the U.S. Congress and is waiting for Obama's signature. This is a huge bill worth $109...

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