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Random Lengths News | 03/06/2025

An Injury To All

“An injury to one is an injury to all” was the Wobblies’ slogan a century ago, as they worked to build one big union for all workers in all industries, regardless of the divisions bosses routinely used against them — ethnicity, race and religion. Today, the Trump/Musk regime is trying to injure 2.3 million workers — illegally and unconstitutionally firing tens of thousands outright and trying to traumatize the rest into quitting or falling in line with Trump’s lawless reshaping of government. Their hope is to portray government workers as demonized others, as not really workers at all.

Every Child Thrives | 02/24/2025

Building a Future Together: Kent Wong’s Vision for Immigrant Justice in America

Immigrants have long been the backbone of America, shaping its economy, infrastructure, and culture. Yet their stories are often buried beneath layers of prejudice. For Kent Wong, a labor attorney and dedicated advocate for immigrant rights, this reality serves as both a reminder and a call to action as immigrant communities face unprecedented threats to their safety and livelihood.

CALÓ News | 03/04/2025

She worked at Subway for over a decade. Now she’s suing for nearly $54,000 in stolen wages

Advocates say Trump’s immigration crackdown will put foreign-born workers like Eva Rodriguez at greater risk — and that knowing their rights is the best defense.

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.

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