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UCLA Newsroom | 02/18/2025

Thinking Gender 2025: Read, Watch, Listen

Re:Work elevates stories of work and activism to humanize economic and racial justice issues. Each episode highlights the life story of a worker or activist, centering people of the global majority through interviews, music, and archival tape. Produced by Veena Hampapur and Saba Waheed, Re:Work also trains community producers and students in multimedia storytelling.

LA Times | 02/14/2025

Worker rights? Racial bias? A law change for manicurists prompts debate, confusion

Since the beginning of the year, licensed manicurists and nail salon owners in Orange County and across the state have been confused about whether a change in state law allows the business practice of renting a booth to continue or not.

KQED | 02/06/2025

Keeping ICE Out of Classrooms: How California Leaders Are Stepping Up Efforts

On a recent Saturday morning at Willow Cove Elementary School in the East Bay city of Pittsburg, two sisters, originally from Honduras, were waiting their turn to sit down with a lawyer at a free immigration clinic.

Scholars Circle | 02/09/2025

Scholars’ Circle – Immigrants to US and how they are treated by its Laws and Executive power of US Presidents – February 9, 2025

Then, the Trump Administration’s approach to immigration, the raids, mass deportations, concentration camps, and shipping people to Guantanamo Bay, may all be illegal. What is the relationship between law and national values and identity, and what legal changes has President Trump proposed? How are communities responding to ICE?

LA Times | 02/03/2025

Businesses close, children skip school for ‘a day without immigrants’ protest

In Southern California and across the country on Monday, dozens of businesses nationwide closed, schools reported lower attendance and families put off trips to the grocery store in observance of “A day without immigrants.”

JD Supra | 01/22/2025

SB 1350 Expands Cal/OSHA Regulations to the Majority of Household Domestic Workers

Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill (“SB”) 1350, which expands the definition of employment to include some household domestic employees who work through agencies. SB 1350 will go into effect on July 1, 2025.

KPFK Podcast | 01/26/2025

Beneath the Surface with Victor Narro

President Trump is back in power and immediately moved to carry out his xenophobic, cruel, hateful and racist policies with a slew of unconstitutional executive orders and plans for mass detention and deportation of the nation’s immigrants. We talk to three extraordinary activists whose organizations and coalitions are building effective solidarity and defense for the about to be detained and deported. Victor Narro, UCLA’s long time expert on immigrant rights and low wage workers, works in the sanctuary movement; Nana Gyamfi of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI); and Aquilina Soriano-Versoza of the Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California explain what their Black, Latino and Filipino led and focused coalitions are doing to counter the Trump offensive against immigrants. This is practical solidarity that builds power -- and it is moving and uplifting.

CNN | 01/24/2025

Trump is targeting the immigrants who will be called on to rebuild LA

On the outskirts of Altadena, where one of the most destructive firestorms in Los Angeles history had just receded, a group of volunteers worked last week to gather fallen tree branches and leaves — removing fuel for potential future fires, bagging them up and taking them away.

UCLA Newsroom | 01/20/2025

King’s teachings passed from one of his contemporaries to UCLA undergraduates

For over two decades, the late Rev. James Lawson Jr. inspired students to carry on the fight for justice in his course that explored nonviolent theory and its impact on social movements in the U.S, and around the globe. Learn about how the nonviolence class connected students to King’s enduring legacy.

Univision | 01/15/2025

Latinos enfrentan desempleo e incertidumbre tras los incendios en Los Ángeles

Armando González, quien lleva más de 40 años trabajando como jardinero y en construcción, dice que tuvo que buscar una alternativa de ingresos debido a que en Altadena, donde tenía dos empleos, la destrucción es total por los incendios forestales.

Daily Trojan | 01/17/2025

University challenges RTPC unionization. National Labor Relations Board hearings resumed after delaying, citing fires.

Kent Wong, the project director for labor and community partnerships at UCLA, former director of UCLA’s Labor Center and a lecturer at UCLA’s labor studies program, said the University’s argument is “really inconsistent” with recent NLRB rulings. Wong said all California State University and Los Angeles Community College faculty are unionized while also being members of an academic senate.

CalMatters | 01/17/2025

‘It all ended in a second’: Thousands of low-income and immigrant workers lost jobs in LA fires

When Hermelinda Guadarrama and her daughter went to work to clean Netflix Hollywood’s offices last week, they had no idea that it might be their last day.

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