Protests in los angeles

A short film telling the story of a sex discrimination protest at a popular Aberdeen pub has won an award in Los Angeles. No Ladies Please is a 12-minute production featuring local actors depicting the incident at The Grill on Union Street in April 1973. It had its world premiere to a sell-out audience at the Belmont Cinema in Aberdeen last night. The production won an award of merit from the US Best Shorts Film Festival in Los Angeles. The idea for the film was developed by Dr Fiona-Jane Brown, project co-ordinator at Aberdeen University’s Elphinstone Institute, who discovered the story when she was researching the history of The Grill in 2016. Dr Brown described the award as a “massive boost” for a new film starring local actors mainly speaking in Scots. … [Read more...] about Short film about Aberdeen bar The Grill wins award in Los Angeles

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U.S. Caravan Donald Trump undefined A caravan of immigrants protesting against the Trump administration's decision to end protections for hundreds of thousands of people is set to travel from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., demanding that President Donald Trump overturn said ruling.  More than 50 beneficiaries of the Temporary Protected Status program, which allows people from countries escaping civil unrest or natural disaster to stay in the U.S., are expected to participate in the 12-week protest expedition. Since taking office, the Trump administration has overseen the end of the protections for immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Haiti, Nepal and Sudan, despite being warned that doing so could increase illegal immigration and boost involvement in gangs, such as MS-13. Immigrants and activists protest near the White House to demand that the Department of Homeland Security extend Temporary Protected Status for more than 195,000 Salvadorans, on … [Read more...] about Immigrant Caravan Will Travel From Los Angeles to DC Protesting Trump Administration Ending Protections

Red carpet and full awards show will be streamed live on The Trevor Project’s Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, powered by Revry /EIN News/ -- Los Angeles, Nov. 29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Grammy Award nominated, multi-platinum R&B/Pop recording artist and actress Deborah Cox and award-winning singer, songwriter, and activist Lauren Jauregui are set to perform at The Trevor Project’s TrevorLIVE Los Angeles on Dec. 2 at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. The event’s star-studded red carpet and full awards show will be streamed live on The Trevor Project’s Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, powered by the first queer global streaming network Revry and hosted by Shira Lazar and Ryan Mitchell from "Let's Go There" on Channel Q Radio. The gala will launch the two-year partnership, which names Revry as the exclusive live streaming partner and the Official Streaming Network of TrevorLIVE LA and NY. It was previously announced that Ryan Murphy, the cast of … [Read more...] about DEBORAH COX AND LAUREN JAUREGUI TAPPED TO PERFORM AT TREVORLIVE LOS ANGELES GALA DECEMBER 2

Thousands of teachers in Los Angeles, the second-largest school system in the U.S., are poised to go out on strike in a reprise of the wave of school work stoppages that affected a number of U.S. states last year. Barring an eleventh hour end to the contract dispute, more than 30,000 educators could stay out of the classroom as soon as Monday, affecting the city's roughly 480,000 public school students. A walkout had been scheduled for Thursday, but the union leading collective bargaining talks, United Teachers Los Angeles, on Wednesday afternoon postponed the action."We are bargaining today as well as in court. Our strike date will be Monday, Jan. 14, if no agreement is reached today," UTLA announced on its website.The teachers in Los Angeles want higher wages and more staff to alleviate overcrowded classrooms, echoing demands made by educators in four states that staged mass walkouts in the spring of 2018. Beginning in West Virginia in February and followed soon after by walkouts in … [Read more...] about Thousands of Los Angeles teachers set to go out on strike